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Historic Litchfield \ _}'\\'cu. SOURCE . ULC .1 H 1~10 6 L)i OCT 10 \906 • • HISTORIC LITCHFIELD BEING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF THE OLD HOUSES OF LITCHFIELD COMPILED FROM KILBOURN'S HISTORY OF LITCHFIELD, GEO. C. WOODRUFF'S HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LITCHFIELD, KILBOURN'S HISTORY OF LITCH­ FIELD TRADITION, THE LITCHFIELD COUNTY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, THE LITCHFIELD BOOK OF DAYS, AND CHRONICLES OF A PIONEER SCHOOL By ALICE T. BULKELEY F /0 iLLUSTRATED FROM ORiGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE COMPILER A I HARTFORD PRESS: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company 1<}06/ / To ALL LOVERS OF LITCHFIELD THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED 336i7. ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE BANTAM LAKE, 4 OLIVER WoLcoTT HousE, s H. B . BELD EN HousE, 7 W. H. S ANFORD HousE, 7 REEVE-WoODRUFF Hous E, 8 RESIDENCE OF COL. GEORGE B. SANFORD, 9 EPISCOPAL RECTORY, 9 HUBBARD HOUSE AND WOLCOTT ELM, OVER 125 YEARS OLD, 10 GOULD HOUSE, OWNED BY PROF. J. M. HOPPIN, II TALLMADGE HOUSE, OWNED BY MRS. JOHN VANDEPOEL, 12 RESIDE NCE OF HON. J. DEMING PERKINS, 14 NORTH STREET IN OCTOBER, 17 RESID ENCE OF MRS. HENRY R. COlT, 18 RESID ENCE OF MRS. E. L. FERRY, 18 BUEL HOMESTEAD, 19 RESIDENCE OF DR. JOHN L. BuEL, 19 SPRING HILL SANATORIUM, 20 PHELPS' HOUSE, 21 LIBRARY CORNER, 21 UNITED STATES HOTEL, 22 ROBERTS' CORNER, 22 BRICK OVEN FIRE PLACE IN A LITCHFIELD HOUSE, 23 HISTORICAL SOCIETY PEWTER, • 23 LITCHFIELD ANTIQUE SILVER AND GLASS AS SHOWN AT D. A. R. EXHIBI­ TION, AUGUST, 1903, • 24 THE HAWKHURST HOTEL, 25 MILE STONE, 25 CLuB HousE, 26 CLUB HOUSE TENNIS COURTS, 26 COUNTY JAIL AND WHIPPING POST ELM, 27 LITCHFIELD GARDENS, 28 INDEX PAGE PAGE House of- Miscellaneous- Adams, Chief Justice, 20 Bantam Lake, . • 3 Allen, Ethan, 9 Cathedral of Lichfield, Eng., Andrews, Judge Charles B., 9 Stone from, 23 Beecher, Dr. Lyman, 19 Cemetery, 24 Belden, The Misses, 7 China Trading Company, Bissell, Jerome and Warren, I4 Litchfield, I4 Brace, John P., IO Cincinnati, Society of the, I3 Buel, Dr. John L., 20 Club House, The Litchfield, 26 Buel, Miss Mary, 28 Churches- Buel, The Misses, I9 First Congregational, 23 Coit, Mrs. Henry R., 21 St. Michael's Protestant Epis­ Daniels, C. F., 9 copal, 23 Deming, Frederick, IS Methodist Episcopal, 23 Ferry, Mrs. E. L., I8 St. Anthony's Roman Cath­ Goddard, Mrs. F. Norton, 28 olic, 23 Hop pin, Prof. James M., II Court House, 27 Hubbard, Mrs. John H., IO County Jail, . 27 Jones, Henry R., I9 D. A. R., Mary Floyd Tallmadge Jones, Miss Henrietta, 9 Chapter, 26 Kenney, George B., 23 Enquirer, The Litchfield, 24 Lord, Miss, 20 Fire Department Building, The Maxwell, Mrs. W. H., . I9 Litchfield, 2s Perkins, Hon. J. Deming, I31 I4 Golf Club, . 26 Phelps, Miss Mary L., 2I1 22 George Junior Republic, Litchfield Pierce, Miss Sarah, I6, I7 Branch, • 28 Reeve, Judge Tapping, 8 Hawkhurst, The, • . 2S Richards, Rev. George, I9 Historical Society, The Litchfield, 26 Richards, Rev. James, . I9 Hotel, United States, 22 Roberts, Elbert P., 2I Law School, Litchfield, 8, 9, I2 Sanctum, The, 27 Litchfield in I81o, I7 Sanford, Col. Geo. B., 9 Litchfield Lyceum, I8 Sanford, William H., II Library, Litchfield Public, 18 1 26 Seymour, Episcopal Rectory, IO Manual Labor High School of Seymour, Morris, . IO Litchfield County, z8 Sheldon, Dr. Daniel, • . I4 Mile Stone, 3 Tallmadge, Col. Benjamin, I21 I3 Mt. Tom, 3 Underwood, F. L., IS Post Road, First, I7 Vandepoel, Mrs. John, 12 Prospect Mountain, 3 Van Winkel, Miss Mary, 20 Sanatoriums- Wallbridge, W. G., 9 Dr. Alanson Abbey's Sana­ Woodruff, Charles B. (Reeve- torium for Cripples, . n Woodruff), 8 Spring HiJI, 20 Woodruff, Morris, IO Schools- Wolcott, Oliver, Sr., . s. 6 Miss Pierce's Female Acad­ Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 9 emy, IS, I6, 17 Wolcott Farm-house, 6 Elm Park Collegiate Insti­ Wright, Rev. W. G., M.A., 9 tute, . 19 Miscellaneous­ Miss Henrietta Jones' School Bank, First National of Litch­ for Young Ladies, 9 field, 2S The Wolcott Institute, . 9 viii INDEX PAGE PAGE School f'or Business Students, etc., 18 Personages- Scientific Society, Litchfield, 27 Edwards, The Misses, 20 Shepaug Valley R. R., . 25 Edwards, President, 20 Temperance, Six Sermons on, I9 Gould, Judge James, 12 Temperance Pledge, IS Hollister, Hon. Gideon H., 7, IS Vacation Home, Shepherd Knapp, 28 Huntington, Judge J. W., 8 Village Improvement Society, 25 Lafayette, General, 8, 13, 22 Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe, 22 Lord, Augustus, 20 Personages- Marsh, Lieutenant John, 3 Abbey, Dr. Alanson, II Matthews, Mayor of New Adams, Chief Justice, 20 York, 27 Adams, Mrs. Mary, 22 Richards, Rev. George, 19 Allen, Ethan, 9 Rochambeau, Gen., 4 Andrews, Judge Charles B., 9 Sheldon, Dr. Daniel, 14 Bacon, Judge, 2I Seymour, Major Moses, 20, 27 Beach, Mrs. Theron, I4 Tallmadge, Col. Ben jamin, Beecher, Dr. Lyman, I9 51 121 131 14 Beecher, Henry Ward, . I9 Tracey, Gen. Uriah, 12 Buel, Deacon John, 3 Washington, Gen . George, Buel, Dr. Henry W., I9 41 5, 7, 8, u, 13 Buel, Miss Mary, • 23, 28 Weller, Oliver, 2I Burr, Aaron, 8 Woodruff, George C., II Bushnell, Rev. Horace, . 19 Woodruff, Morris, 1 0 Calhoun, Judge John C., IO Wolcott, Ursula, II Child, Mrs. Nathaniel R., IS Wolcott, Frederick, 6, 10 Collins, Rev. Timothy, 22 Wolcott, Oliver, Sr., 6, 7, I3, 24 Deming, Miss Lucretia, I4 Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 6, 9, 24 Deming, Julius, 13, 14 HISTORIC LITCHFIELD. The town of Litchfield, Conn., the county seat, situated on a ridge looking off in every direction on the beautiful hills of Litchfield county, in the northwestern part of the state, and adjoining the Berkshires of Massachusetts fame, is of much interest today as a summer resort both on account of its present beauty and past historical importance. Its fine and bracing air, incidental to its elevation of I I I3 feet above the sea level, has its tonic effect upon those making their permanent home here as well as upon visitors in search of health as well as pleasure. The site of Litchfield on a ridge is said to have been chosen by the early settlers on account of its adaptability for defense against predatory savages, tradition pointing out places where stood the ancient block houses. The ancient milestone, giving its distance from New York by the old King's highway as I02 miles, may still be seen just outside the village in front of Elm Ridge, the home of Mrs. Edwin MeNeil. There are beautiful drives in every direction, Bantam Lake, the largest lake in Connecticut, covering about 900 acres, being about three miles distant. Mt. Tom, six miles southwest of the village in the direction of the Lake, and its round top visible from all points, is ISOO feet above tide water. From Prospect Mountain, four miles west of the Court House, may be seen The Catskills. Litchfield township was founded in I720-2I by Deacon John Buel of Lebanon, Lieutenant John Marsh of Hartford, and fifty-five others, " petitioners under committees from Hartford and Windsor (which towns at that time held the 2 4 title for the ' Western Lands,' as the northwestern part of the state, then a wilderness, was called) , praying liberty to settle a town westward of Farmington at a place called Bantam." The new town to be called Litchfield and named from Lichfield, England; the first town of the name in the United States, six or seven others being so named later. The first settlers were Captain Jacob Griswold of Wind­ sor, John Peck of Hartford, and Ezekiel Buck of Wethers­ fi eld, who brought their families here, built log houses on their home lots and moved into them during the summer of I 720. John Buel and John Marsh were the two most conspicuous men in the early history of the town. In I 75 I, Litchfield County was organized, there being great rivalry between Litchfield and Goshen as to which should become the Shire town. The latter being situated directly in the centre of the new county, many people, includ­ ing Oliver Wolcott, afterwards Governor of the state, settled in Goshen, expecting it to be the Shire town. But Litchfield carried off the honor, giving its name in consequence to the county. The pioneers were agriculturists, a gristmill, saw­ mill, blacksmith, and clothiers being all the trade. At first, only cart horses and pillion or ox cart in summer, and ox sled and snowshoes in winter, were available for traveling from place to place, four-wheeled carts not being in use until after the Revolution. Spinning wheels were to be found in every house, and the County town was a common centre during the terms of the courts. A stranger today is struck with the beauty of the stately elms which border the broad level streets. A few new houses are seen, but the majority of the dwellings belong to the past, the dates over the doorways showing some of them to be well into their second century. Many of them are in­ teresting from historical associations, as Washington, La­ fayette, Rochambeau, and other Revolutionary celebrities honored the village with their presence. Washington's first visit to Litchfield was August 23d, I78o, when he spent the night, leaving the next day for West Point, Litchfield being on the stage-coach line between Hartford and West Point, . I BA:-ITAM LAKE BANTAM LAKE OLiVER WOLCOTT HQVSE 5 and Boston and New Y ark. There were some trees stand­ ing, when the town was laid out, but our present fine trees did not form a canopy over the head of Washington. The hoary-headed sycamores now standing, one in front of the Catholic church and one at the corner of E ·ast and South streets, were then newly planted, the first Oliver Wolcott having set them out with eleven others, giving to each the name of one of the thirteen original states.
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