. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, were kept running with some attempt at regularity, butthe results from a business view were not fully satisfactory. Thesound steamers came up the river as far as Hartford, but couldnot pass Enfield in safety, and wlien the railroad system betweenSpringfield and New Haven was in complete operation there wasa rapid decline in river navigation. However, between North- >.\lonzo ronvei-se is our authority for the statement that the tirm of Cooley& Co. at one time had as many as seven or eight transportation boats on the
. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, were kept running with some attempt at regularity, butthe results from a business view were not fully satisfactory. Thesound steamers came up the river as far as Hartford, but couldnot pass Enfield in safety, and wlien the railroad system betweenSpringfield and New Haven was in complete operation there wasa rapid decline in river navigation. However, between North- >.\lonzo ronvei-se is our authority for the statement that the tirm of Cooley& Co. at one time had as many as seven or eight transportation boats on theriver, while Converse & Co. had as many more. The firm first mentioned com-prised John Cooley, Edmund Ialmer. Frederick Palmer. Daniel Ely and a Converse & Co. comprised Isaac Converse. Henry Ialmer. Horace Har-mon and George Douglas. Our informant also says (and what he says may beregarded as reliable) that both companies did a paying business on the riveruntil 1845, or thereabouts, and that then they were bought off by the rail-road company. ( ifta ). OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE ampton and Hartford steamers for pleasure purposes havealways been run on the river. THE SHAD FISHERIES It is sometimes difficult to believe that a pursuit so promis-ing of permanent substantial results could have been completelydestroyed as were the shad fisheries which were so famous in theConnecticut river i-egion previous to the construction of the damat Enfield. Every citizen of Hampden county is well aware ofthe fact that shad in large quantities at one time were takenfrom the river, but it is not generally understood that the estab-lished fisheries along that stream once constituted an importantindustry in the region. Whoever has read the earlier chapters of this work haslearned that the Indians of Western Massachusetts dwelt in theConnecticut valley ehicfiy on account of the multitude of sal-mon and shad that inhabited the waters of the region, and alsothat when driven from the country a
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