. Historic Litchfield, 1721-1907; being a short account of the history of the old houses of Litchfield; . ovement to-ward manual training was taking shape in the thought ofthese broad-minded men. A society was incorporated Octo-ber 27, 1831, and a notice was published to the subscribersfor stock in the Manual Labor High School of LitchfieldCounty. Committee, Frederick Wolcott, Lot Norton,Orange Merwin, Tertius D. Potter, and Solomon were to be made for the choice of location,necessary buildings, etc. Also about this time we find ad-vertised a select school for business st
. Historic Litchfield, 1721-1907; being a short account of the history of the old houses of Litchfield; . ovement to-ward manual training was taking shape in the thought ofthese broad-minded men. A society was incorporated Octo-ber 27, 1831, and a notice was published to the subscribersfor stock in the Manual Labor High School of LitchfieldCounty. Committee, Frederick Wolcott, Lot Norton,Orange Merwin, Tertius D. Potter, and Solomon were to be made for the choice of location,necessary buildings, etc. Also about this time we find ad-vertised a select school for business students, mathematics,and the languages, kept by M. R. Deming. In 1789, thirty years before the temperance movement inwhich the Rev. Lyman Beecher became so prominent, a tem-perance pledge was drafted and signed by many original pledge was republished with other articles bear-ing upon the same subject in the Litchfield Enquirer of Sep-tember 26, 1833. While not the first temperance organiza-tion in the world, nevertheless the signing of this agreement ^:v^^:-t RESIDENCE OF MRS. HENRY R. COIT. RESIDENCE OF MHS. E. L. FERRY -. ■? **>.^ W^^ 1 Wf^-y^ W^-\ ^- 1 guiilii •-^-^f M r IB- Mii ■Si vip^^as F^ i jl ^y. W% 1 r ^ - ^ :^ < ■^-?^-ti BUEL HOMESTEAD
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