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The History of Redding, Conn: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)
The History of Redding Conn From Its First Settlement to the Present Time - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Burr Todd Excerpt from The History of Redding, Conn: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time — "Reading, 60 miles south-west of Hartford, about miles long by 6½ wide, with an area of 32 square miles. The Saugatuck River crosses it through the middle, north and south; and the Norwalk River is in the west part. The forest trees are oak, nut tree, etc. ... more »Papulation in 1830, 1686." - United State Gazetteer, 1833.
"Like many of the New England villages, it is scattered and beautifully shaded with elms, maples, and syeamores." - Lossing, Field-Book of the Revolution.
"The geological character of the town, as throughout Western Connecticut is metamorphic. Granitic and porphyritic rocks, and especially micaccous shists, predominate. The minerals are such as are familiar in such rocks - hornblende, garnet, kyanite, tremolite, etc. In the western part of the town are deposits of magnesian limestone (or dolomite), mush of which is quite pure, though some of it contains tremolite and other impurities. The other minerals features of the town are not specially noteworthy, or of result of the disintegration of the underlying rocks." - Notes of Rev. John Dickinson.
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