Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-24

terminus of the new trolley line which is to supply the connecting link in the shore route from New York to Boston a huge boulder marks the site of Yale colleges first building. The boulder is near the old Cypress cemetery at Saybrook Point. It bears this inscrip- ton; The first site of Yale College. Founded 17O1. Removed 1716.''
 Daniel Hooker. the first tutor to be appointed at Yale, and John Hart, the first graduate of the college, came from Pennington. It was not until 1710 that Elihu Yale of New Haven became identified with the college. He amassed a fortune as president of the East Indian company. He died in WeXham, Wales.
 The college was removed to New Haven in pursuance of sentiment that it should go to the highest bid- der New Haven subscribed 1000 pounds, while the people of Old Say brook raisedN only 1.40O, and Hartford, which wanted the college, got togeth- CT only a few hundred. For several years after Old Saybroo1 lost the col lege the feeling was so bitter that half the students were instructed there or in Hartford or Wethersfeld, going to New Haven only to receive their degrees.
 Site of Ancisnt Mill.
 Half a mile west of the Yale boulder, beside the road leading to the steamboat landing at Saybrook Poin, Is one of several millstones that were unearthed just before the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anni- yersary Of the town, in 1885, Lion Gardner's windmill was built in 1636 on the spot where the stones were found, and stood there for 175 years The stones weigh more than a ton each, and although there is proof that Gardner brought them from England or Holland nearly three centuries ago, the iron bands which encircle them show no signs of rust. Experts say that the composition of the stones, which is like that of Scotch granite does not even remotely resemble any rock formation found in this country
 Old Lyme, Home of Artists.
 "Old Lyme, which is across the Connecticut river from Old Saybreok and connected with it by a new high way bridge, was for many years the greatest shad shipping point on the Sound, but the industry now lagS sad ly. With the disappearance of the shad has come an influx of artists, Famous wieIders of the brush have spread paintings of Old Lyme's hills meadows and marshes through the art galleries of the world.
 "Old Lyme has given the state two SON0lIEOIS- N11dSWC30 eIl1O Roger Griswold. Chief Justice Waite of the supreme court, was a native of Old Lyme, as was Walter c. Moves, who has just retired as judge of the United States circuit court. Old Lyme was the summer home of President Woodrow Wilson for several years. A score of the foremost landscape paint CTS in the country live in this New England village, peacefully sleeping meath it's ancestral elmS.
 Historic Interest in Mantle.
 East Lyme, which is the eastern terminus of the new line, is another artists paradise especially Mantle which it contains. Mantle, besides being the camping grounds of the Connecticut militia, has it's Spiritual ists' temple, set in the heart of a pine grove. On the short run from Os- wegatchie, on the east bank of the Mantle river, along which Miner painted some of his best pictures. to Mantle. there is a wealth of historic interest.
 Moving Rock at Jordan Cove.
 There Is the Jordan grain nlilL which is the oldest in the country, next to the Town mill :n New London. which was built in 1850. At Jordan Cove is the moving rock. weighing 20 GOO pounds, which has moved sev- eral rods in the last century. the only explanation being the force of the tide. Mantle is the reservation of the Mohe- Txa1 {a