. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. aker, and in iSij soldout to Frederick .drus of the sametrade, removing to Burlington, Ver-mont. The old liouse now liecame the i:, \ .1. northward, an old house once the homeof Josiah Nortii, and soon after hisdeath in 17S4, passing into the hands ofCapt. Isaac Buck, who there lived anddied at an advanced age. But we mustnot linger on the site of the numeroushouses that once looked over tlie valleyfrom this hill, only .it the font we muststay a moment, the little redhouse of Gov. Treadwell, just north ofPoke brook
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. aker, and in iSij soldout to Frederick .drus of the sametrade, removing to Burlington, Ver-mont. The old liouse now liecame the i:, \ .1. northward, an old house once the homeof Josiah Nortii, and soon after hisdeath in 17S4, passing into the hands ofCapt. Isaac Buck, who there lived anddied at an advanced age. But we mustnot linger on the site of the numeroushouses that once looked over tlie valleyfrom this hill, only .it the font we muststay a moment, the little redhouse of Gov. Treadwell, just north ofPoke brook and west of the big rockcan only be remembered by the oldestof our people. Dr. Porter and ProfessorDenison Olmsted have both writtenworthy memorials of this ennnent pa-triot, scholar, an<l Christian, but anyexhaustive account of his public servicesmust be a history of the common schoolSStem of Connecticut, of the rise offoreign missions, and of much of thepolitical history of the State in the daysof the Revolution. Crossing the brook and walking on. -V (7) \VM. h. IUHLIirUTS mACKSMITil SilOl. 10 FARMTXGTOX. CONNECTICUT,
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