. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. the river, beyond whichfertile meadows spread away to thewestern hills, undisligured for more thanone hundred years by divisional fences,a broad panorama of waving grain andgreen corn liclds. The lanil was indeed owned in sev-eralty, but annually the proprietors votedon what day in October they would useit for pasturage, and on what day in.\l)ril all must remove their flocks andherds. Access to this common held wasthrough the North Meadow Gate justwest of the Catholic church, or throughthe South Meadow Gate near the Pe-quabuc stone bri
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. the river, beyond whichfertile meadows spread away to thewestern hills, undisligured for more thanone hundred years by divisional fences,a broad panorama of waving grain andgreen corn liclds. The lanil was indeed owned in sev-eralty, but annually the proprietors votedon what day in October they would useit for pasturage, and on what day in.\l)ril all must remove their flocks andherds. Access to this common held wasthrough the North Meadow Gate justwest of the Catholic church, or throughthe South Meadow Gate near the Pe-quabuc stone bridge. .\Iong themain street houses began to rise, logiiuts at first, each provided by law witlia ladder reaching to the ridge to beexamined every six months by tlie chim-ney-viewers. In 1711 the town grantedfourscore acres of land to encourage theerectioti of a saw-mill. Init long before (2) TIIK FAItMAM *Part of an liistoi-ical address deliverod at the ulinual nieetiiiK of tile fillage Library Company. Maj, 1905. ARMTXGTOX. COXXECTICUT,. (?,) Till: m:\ms piack hiii/i in iviio—hhsiiikxcf, (II- ( ii\i:i,i:s whicli was the approved style until thetinu- of the Rfvohition. and which isevrn nnw being re\ ivcd under the nameai the Old Colonial style. The hugeihinniey was at length divided into moved out of the wa\- of the frontdiMir, whieli now. with its polished lirassknoeker. welcomed the approaching old house was seldom pulled down,Init. moved to the , it maile a kitchenfor the newer strnelnre. so that in timethe house had as man\ styles of archi-tecture .and of erection as an Eng-lish lalhedral. .\s we lirst come in sight of the vil-lage, looking down upon it from thellarlford v\ e see on ilie left oneof our houses long owne(l .Xorih. .and hnilt li> his or his grandfather I , .\(.rlh did not kindl\ to \s .and never went to church, andso was unive
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