. New England; a human interest geographical reader. prisoner. One of the old accounts saysshe was ordered to be torn in pieces by dogs, andso was dealt withall. The first bridge built across the Connecticut on itsbroader course between the Sound and the northernboundar>^ of Massachusetts was erected at Springfieldin 1805 after years of agitation and considerableridicule of the scheme by local wiseheads. You mightas well attempt to bridge the x^tlantic, one mandeclared. The bridge was wooden, but was not roofed rokdway ascended and descended with the curveof the arches of each span
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. prisoner. One of the old accounts saysshe was ordered to be torn in pieces by dogs, andso was dealt withall. The first bridge built across the Connecticut on itsbroader course between the Sound and the northernboundar>^ of Massachusetts was erected at Springfieldin 1805 after years of agitation and considerableridicule of the scheme by local wiseheads. You mightas well attempt to bridge the x^tlantic, one mandeclared. The bridge was wooden, but was not roofed rokdway ascended and descended with the curveof the arches of each span. It was painted red. Whenit was opened there was a procession, a prayer, and asermon, and there was music, ringing of bells, and asalute of seventeen guns fired three times. Afternine years service it showed signs of weakening and ii8 New England was replaced by the big covered Old Toll Bridge,which still stands. Tolls were collected until 1872. During the Revolution various munitions of warwere made in Springfield — at first in shops along Main. ? liiL uid Iuli Bridge at Springfield Street and in some of the barns, but later these publicworks were moved to a ten-acre square on a broadhilltop that the town had taken for a training was established a few years later a governmentarmory, and in the Civil War the factories, by runningnight and day, attained a daily output of one thousandrifles. At one spot, just outside the Armory grounds onState Street, is what looks like a quaint old gravestone. The Connecticut Valley 119 It is curiously decorated with the sun, moon, and astar, and some other objects, and it is inscribed thus: Boston Road This Stone is Erected by Joseph Wait Esq. of Brookfield For the Benefit of Travellers /D 1763 Wait was a merchant, who lost his way in a snow-storm and wandered off the road here. He put up thestone to save others from a like experience. Not far from this stone is a boulder that marks thebattle place of Shays Rebellion, January 25,
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