Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . justifyits name. He does not know and he does notstop to find out. that when the tnwn of firotoncomprised an area more than twice as largeas it does at present, this spot w-as, approxi-mately speaking, its geographical center; andthat as a corallary thereto it liecame its eccle-siastical, corporate, and educational ) highways running east and west and north and south respectively, here cross oneanother at right angles. Th
Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . justifyits name. He does not know and he does notstop to find out. that when the tnwn of firotoncomprised an area more than twice as largeas it does at present, this spot w-as, approxi-mately speaking, its geographical center; andthat as a corallary thereto it liecame its eccle-siastical, corporate, and educational ) highways running east and west and north and south respectively, here cross oneanother at right angles. The first and moreimportant one of the two was, long before the\vhite invasion, an aboriginal trail worn by thefeet of generations of sa\age warriors, andleading from the Narragansett country to theshores of the Pequot river, now the second, similar in its origin, led from theopen plain around the s^und to the JMohegat,country at the north. Into each of these atvarious distances, branching trails, now high-ways, converged. Once churches had towns; now, townsliave churches. In this brief sentence, fromSlime forgotten essayist, is to be found an epi-. ir the dc wh tome of the reasonstline of many a .\e\like this one. still holds its ])lace on the in the i)hrase of itmay have long less lived than lasted. Heroat the crossing of the highways, then hardlymore than bridle paths, by means of whichthe scattered farmers niaintaincil a ;liborlyintercourse w^ith one anotlier, the fcininKTS of(iroton, who believed that the only safe path-way to heaven was through the portals ofthe Estal)lished Church, reared the first meet-ing house in the town, il duld he most 44 HISTORIC GROWN it they liiiilt tlic nuler school Imusc. within ci]dine. like that of an eiidiiriny democratic theocracy. The bonds the church, was complete. Within a stones which held church and state together grew throw of the two was the dwelling of the min
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