Excerpt from Old New England Doorways Into large towns or small cities, like Warren, in Rhode Island, or Guilford, in Connecticut. The latter claims more than a hundred houses built be fore the Revolution. But the very growth of such places tends toward change in the old buildings. They are modernized, or they become real-estate derelicts or, not infrequently, tenement-houses rapidly falling into disrepair and soon to be torn down to make room for more profitable investments. Naturally, the most fruitful fields are the ...
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Excerpt from Old New England Doorways Into large towns or small cities, like Warren, in Rhode Island, or Guilford, in Connecticut. The latter claims more than a hundred houses built be fore the Revolution. But the very growth of such places tends toward change in the old buildings. They are modernized, or they become real-estate derelicts or, not infrequently, tenement-houses rapidly falling into disrepair and soon to be torn down to make room for more profitable investments. Naturally, the most fruitful fields are the areas of earliest settlement, the Massachusetts shore, the bay of Rhode Island, the towns along the Connec ticut shore, and along the Connecticut River valley as far north as Greenfield. Few of the early houses remain in the larger cities. Most of the people of the first century of settlement built in village groups or not far apart along the main street. The system had its origin in the danger from attack by Indians. Usually, the town centre was the village green, or common, a tract of varying area held for the com mon use of all for the pasturage of their cattle. A straying cow was easily killed by a marauding Indian, and so was a cow-owner searching afield for his wandering beast. If a town was raided, the compactness of its settlement made possible a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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