Milford chronicle., 1949-10-28

and was a place Of resort for young
people on summer evenings. There
were carved the heart emblems
with their intertwined initials. 1t
was always said that those who
drank from this spring would never
leave Milford. The spring is gone
but Mr.. Joseph Holland moved the
spring house into his yard where
many will probably remember 1t.
We can no longer drink from the
spring, but those who live here are
usually confirmed AIilfordians If
not to the extent of a certain old
Pman they used to tell about, whose
feet began to hurt the minute he
crossed the stream at the Tub Mill
and didn't stop until he came back
on this side and was in sight OF
town.
It used to be the fashion to con-
| clude with a moral so that what
/ want to say to you Row will serve
/ in the old fashioned way to point
moral and adorn the tale. That
old Roman saying-time destroys
everthing-is just as true for us as
I it was for them. 1t is only when
we resist and make some Organiz-
ed effort that we are able to rescue
some spOils from the wreck of
time. The buildings we have been
i speaking of here some remark
able for their architectural beauty.
others for their antiquarian inter
est, have survived by the merest
chance. Much has been lost, like
the old Mitchell Buildings on Front
street for instance, which a New
England town or q Virginia Will
liamsburg would have taken care
to preserve. Until the bridge was
/ built across the creek on Washing
ton street, it appeared that busin-
, ess would inevitably expand out
, north and South Walnut streets
, and that the Causey Mansion and
J stately houses in the TOrbert block
( in North Milford were doom to give
place to commercial buildings
e Most fortunately for the town the
bridge has made possible a more
2 compact and convenient business
! sectiOn-cOnvenient because ii
, makes a circular drive for automo-
. biles and provides greater ease OF
3 access to the store. And yet, in
spite of this lucky chance, the fact
} that they will be preserved re.
. mains a pious hOpe-the hope thai
! this or that building will not fal
: into the hands of Philistines, bu
: will fall into hands ready to re
! store and preserve that which car
= no longer be replaced. The preser
! vation of such things is already tn,
serious concern of other cOmmun
:, tiles. Not long ago there was t,
be seen a photograph in tn,
! papers of some citizens of BOstOl
sitting in groups on the pavement
The city had threatened to remOv
;. the old brick pavements whicl
" were so well in keeping with tn
, buildings on the street, but tn
u determined resistance of these en-
u thusiastic 'sitters called so mucI
u attention that the pavements wer
9 saved and will remain for man
'e long day to delight the antiquaT
Is ian eye. So jealOusly do the citiz
u ems of Boston guard even the pave
II ments that front their histori
le buildings. Here then is our moral
n private citizens can do so much b
IS wise purchase and careful restora
ID tiOn, but they cannot do all-o
le even enough, to win the battl
lie Without some sympathetic civi
le help our streasurers willEeOntinU
" to disappear one by one, in til
ell future as they have in the past. W
W cannot get back what our town ha
rs lOst-we can save those really fin
IS things that remain.
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