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Lime Rock, CT history |
Lime Rock: the historic capital of the iron industry in ConnecticutWhy are we interested in Lime Rock? We're currently the Historian of Trinity Church in Lime Rock. We're active in the Friends of Beckley Furnace, a historical preservation group that is interested in the Barnum and Richardson Company, once headquartered in Lime Rock. And, we ran a heritage walk in Lime Rock a few years ago for the UHVNHA and are running another one in 2008.
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From the collections of Between the Lakes Group:We've photographed quite a few of the gravestones in the Lime Rock Cemetery and we've got pictures! We're planning to photograph more and make them available here too. Let us know if you are interested in a particular family or surname, and we'll see if we can find it! There are some different gravestones pictured on the CD-ROM, too. We're happy to provide for your reading pleasure an article from 1905 about Lime Rock and its history that was written by the then-Rector of Trinity Church. It's well worth reading and contains insights about the community that we've not seen elsewhere. Read the 1905 Gesner article about Lime Rock
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...about our Lime Rock History Walk CD-ROM...Usually we create a CD-ROM in order to re-publish a major book of local history, genealogy, or Americana. We've broken with tradition on this one. Although we are including one local history pamphlet on this CD, it's only a small part of the CD. Just as we were delighted to support the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area (UHVNHA) by leading a heritage walk, we were fortunate to gain the sponsorship of Trinity Church in Lime Rock for the walk itself. They generously gave us free run of their spectacular (for a country parish church) facilities. And, we were extremely happy to gain the active support of Lime Rock Park. That world-famous Lime Rock institution even provided a speaker, Ev Gamble, a track historian whose background goes back to the track's very beginnings. Here's what the official brochure about the 48 separate walks UHVNHA sponsored that weekend said about our walk:
To accommodate those who were not physically ready for the hike itself, we also held two indoor activities that day.
By popular demand, the showings of both the video and the slide show were repeated after the walkers returned from their trek. We decided not to limit the CD to just the Lime Rock history walk slide show. We supplemented the 130-slide slide show with:
The price of the CD is $15.00.
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| We've also set up an e-mail discussion group about the history of Lime Rock. It's easy to join. Just send an e-mail to limerock-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. It's free, and it's open to discussion of any aspect of the history of Lime Rock. |
More about Historic Lime Rock:Here's a recent brochure we produced for Trinity Church in Lime Rock --it's a self-guided tour of that historic church with
a distinctly historical perspective.
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Here's one of our favorite views of Lime Rock, circa 1908:Here's a super view of Lime Rock, taken from what must have been an cleared overlook above the Barnum and Richardson houses at the foot of what is now White Hollow Road (but then was Barnum Avenue). That peak is fully forested today, and we doubt a clear view could be found. Furthermore, the tree growth in Lime Rock itself would make most of the landmarks here invisible in today's photo.
You can see where Lime Rock Park now is (the right hand portion of the picture, opposite Trinity Church), the meanders of the Salmon Kill (lower right corner), several of the company houses (note especially the cluster in the center of the photo), Charles Barnum's splendid "Hepzivalla" (to the left of center of the photo), but, unfortunately, nothing of downtown Lime Rock or the Barnum Richardson factory buildings (all out of the photo at the bottom). Lime Rock Park, of course would be on the right hand edge of the picture.
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More about the Lime Rock CD-ROM:You may be wondering if a particular name you're looking for appears in the brief History of Trinity Church we included on the CD. We have indexed both names and places for this republication, and the new index is also on the CD.
Below is an extract of names from that index so you can check before buying to see if a particular name you're interested in is included: Arnold, H. Athoe, Newman Averill, Dr. Barnum family Barnum & Richardson Company Barnum, C. W. Barnum, Charles W. Barnum, J. H. Barnum, James H. Barnum, Mrs. Barnum, W. H., Mrs. Barnum, William H. Barnum, William H., Mrs. Barrett, William Beach family Bigelow, Frank H., Rev. Bigelow, Mr. Brock, Sally Bulman, Leonard Burrell, Porter Burrell, Porter, Mrs. Carlsen, Dines Carpenter, Mr. Chiera, Mr. Childs, George H Cimino, Harry, Mrs. Clark, A. S., Rev. Crowell, William Dean, Charles Eggleston, Harry Eggleston, Harry C. Eggleston, Harry, Mrs. Ensign, J. Lee Ensign, James Ensign, James, Mrs. Ensign, Julia Ellen Ensign, Julia Goodwin, 4 Ensign, Sidney P. Gaylord, Henry C., Mrs. Geissler of New York Germon, Carl Gesner, Herbert, Rev. Gesner, Mr. Gilbert, Helen Goodwin, Hezekiah Goodwin, Hezekiah E. Goodwin, Hezekiah, Mrs. Goodwin, Julia Goodwin, Julia Emmons Granger, Mrs. Greene, Nathaniel, Mrs. Griffin, Mr. Griffith, George William, Rev. Griffith, Mr. Griffith, Mrs. Guernsey, Lydia Guernsey, Millard Hallock, Josephine Harwood, Lucy Richardson Hurlbut, J. H. Johnson, William A., Rev. Kelley, John W., Mrs. Levi, J. T. Lewis, Pendleton Lewis, Pendleton, Mrs. Loverage, Harriet Marshall, Herbert H. McIntyre, Irving McNeil, Mr. McNeil, N. A. McNeil, Nelson, Mrs. Mortenson, Arthur Mulligan, John Mulligan, Mr. Ostrum, Lee Putnam, Mr. Putnam, Richard F., Rev. Richardson family Richardson, Carrie Richardson, James L. Richardson, Leonard, Mrs. Richardson, Lucy Ann Richardson, Milo Richardson, Milo B. Richardson, Milo B., Sr. Richardson, Milo, Mrs. Rowley, C.. H., Rowley, Charles, Mrs. Sanger, Edmund Sanger, Edmund P.C. Sedgwick, Harold B., Rev. Simpson, Arthur Stern, G. I. Stevenson, Patricia Strong, Henry B. Strong, Henry B., Mrs. Tarrant, Henry, Rev. Tarrant, Mr. Tarrant, Mrs. Thorpe, George Tomsett, Eric Upjohn, "elder" VanWyck, Mr. VanWyck, Mrs. VanWyck, William B., Rev. VanWyck, William, Rev. Walker family Walker, Dr. Walker, Milledge Pendril, Rev. Walker, Mr. Wanger, Anna Wanger, F. Wiesing, George Wiesing, George, Mrs. Williams, Bishop Winterbottom, Robert |
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