Trolley trips through New England .. . its own. InNorwalk Square, at the end of our first route from New York,stands the fine old Norwalk House, with its high-pillared portico,reminiscent of stage-coach days and the good fare of old. The name of the town is of Indian origin, and means a pointof land. Here, near old Fort Point, east of the river, the firstwhite settlers located on the plain, and here in East Norwalklived Col. Thomas Fitch:—when he led his soldiers in the battleof Crown Point, an English officer, in derision of the scanty andvariegated uniforms of his command, composed the immor
Trolley trips through New England .. . its own. InNorwalk Square, at the end of our first route from New York,stands the fine old Norwalk House, with its high-pillared portico,reminiscent of stage-coach days and the good fare of old. The name of the town is of Indian origin, and means a pointof land. Here, near old Fort Point, east of the river, the firstwhite settlers located on the plain, and here in East Norwalklived Col. Thomas Fitch:—when he led his soldiers in the battleof Crown Point, an English officer, in derision of the scanty andvariegated uniforms of his command, composed the immortalverses— Yankee Doodle came to town, Riding on a pony,Stuck a feather in his cap, And called him macarony. A macarony in that time was by way of being a dandy. Take here the Bridgeport car, which passes Norwalk Green,and with occasional glimpses of the Sound, runs thro Westport,Southport, where is the handsome Pequot Library, and old Fair-FiELD-on-the-Sound, dozing under its immemorial elms. 14 Trolley Trips through New England.
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