This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... produce which we are blessed with at the present time. Can any one tell us what changes will take place in Greenfield in the next four score years? REMINISCENCES OF MRS. M. H. OIBBS. My recollections of Norwalk date back to May 17, 1835. We had landed at Huron the night before from a steamboat from Buffalo. As we rode ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... produce which we are blessed with at the present time. Can any one tell us what changes will take place in Greenfield in the next four score years? REMINISCENCES OF MRS. M. H. OIBBS. My recollections of Norwalk date back to May 17, 1835. We had landed at Huron the night before from a steamboat from Buffalo. As we rode into the town from Milan street, through West Main, beyond what is now Pleasant street, the street for the whole distance looked as though set to bean poles. For what are now the pride of Norwalk, our beautiful maples, were then just set out, by order of the first mayor of our city, "Uncle" Platt Benedict, and were merely saplings with the tops cut off, with a cloth tied over the top of each one, giving but faint promise of the beauty they were to develop in later years. To my sister Lizzie and myself, two homesick little girls, who had come from the pine covered hills of western New York, the one green spot in all the town was the lone little pine, still standing, now a large tree, in Dr. Simmons' yard. It was for a long time the only evergreen tree. Several years after, Mrs. Samuel T. Worcester permitted some of us young girls, who were her pupils, to step on the earth surrounding some fir trees, which had been sent her from Boston, that we might be able to say that we had stood on Boston ground! A great honor, in her estimation! My uncle, Judge David Higgins, was living in the house now occupied by Mrs. Augustus Joslin, while the house where James Gibbs lives, and which had been "Old Whyler's" dry goods store, was being fitted up for a dwelling. The house has remained in the family ever since. The original settlers of Norwalk, Platt Benedict and wife, David Gibbs and family, and others who came with them from Connecticu...
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