Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
TO HOLD RECEPTION
 FOR BROckTON VISITORS
Members of Chamber of Commerce
 Invited to Meet Party at Wauregan [

About 3 o'clock this Saturday. aft ernoon party of some thirty or for ty Brockton visitors are expected in Norwich. They are coming from the shoe city by auto and will be met at Taftville by the local committee Of which l.. M. Crandan is chairman. after being conducted about the city, Norwich Town and Yantic. on a sight seeing tour by MT. Crandall the party will return to the city and put up at the Wauregan house. In the evening there will be a reception for the Vls- itors and the members of the Norwich Chamber of Commerce have been in vited to meet them at the hotel.
 The visitors will be taken on a tour of the Norwich stores in the eV- ening and at 8.30 o'clock they will go to the Davis theatre where they will be gu~s of Manager Al. Craig at the second show
 The first point of interest they will
 be shown is the tunnel at Taftville, a part of the New York, New Haven and
 Hartford railroad. This line was con- structed under great difficulty from
 Norwich to Worcester in the early twentieS and is the first tunnel to be built in New England. It is some 200
 feet ln length and 150 feet from the top of the mountain to the top of the
 rail.
 They will then be shown the com pressed air plant, which Is the only plant of it's kind in the United States. Then they will be conducted to the cotton mills in Taftvile. This plant was originally started prior to the war, ! around the sixties. Another point Of l interest to Be shown the Brockton N1s- i tors is the plain where the noble chief l of the Narra gl nsett Indians lost his l fife in the battle with the Mohegans | in the early period of Norwich history. 1 His grave is marked by a huge granite l boulder placed there by loving hands who wished to perpetuate the early history of Norwich and this Indian | people.
 The next point to be visited will be 1 the Norwich Belt Manufacturing con- l paTy and others will include the War ner Arms company, the plant of the Hubbard Paper Mills company, enc of the older plants in Norwich, having re gently changed hands, now controlled by the DuEont Powder company; the plant of the United States Finishing company the Shetucket COmpany'S plant, incorporated in 1887, succeeding the Thames Manufacturing company,
 which was organized Jan. IS, 1923, the Braincrd & Armstrong plant, etc,
 which will take them into the center of the city. On the way all the build tngs of special interest will be pointed cut by the guide.
 They will pass the plant of the Hop N company has contracted with the Bel gian government to make 150, coo rifles.
 Going through the residential section of Norwich. the visitors will have pointed to them the site of the home of
 the pioneer cotton manufacturer, John F.
 Slater, who gave a million dollars to educate negroes in the south. In his emnory was crected a nemorial-the Slater Memorial building.
 In Norwich Town they will see the
 historic spot known IS Sentry EIiH,
 where our forcfa thers met when the
 British marched on lexington, the n1inutemen of eastern Connecticut
 gathered and started on foct toward Lexington under the guidance of Gen. eral Putnam.
 Stili other points to be shown will be
 the LoWthorpa meadows auG the old EchOolhouse, site of the drug store
 where Benedict Arnold was appren- ticed to learn the business when Q boy, and the old town burial ground Here
 are buried many of the soldiers who marched with Lafayette from Boston to New York and fell out here because of sickness. The original settlement, the old Norwich Town Green, school house and the site of the First church were on this green, also Sentinel Rock Here were posted sentries during the to keep the colony posted on the war
 Ike conditions of the Indians and the treacherY of the same The town was settled in 1859. The place known as l Meeting House Rocks was also the meeting place of Washington and La 1 fayette during the war for independ cnCe.