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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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r of recent years has grown to be almost a city, andfor a mile or so much of the sense or rural traveling is lost.On either side of it, however, is a chain of really magnificentcountry residences on the Sound side of the old highway thatis the Post Road. The other side of Portchester the By ram River comes in,the boundary line of New York and Connecticut, a singularlypicturesque stream. Beyond lie Belle H&ven and Green-wich, where trolleying from New York has hitherto come toan end and the first break in the route to Boston has com-menced. But this summer this has been changed. The trolleyno longer stops on the top of Putnam Hill, Greenwich, butgoes plunging down into the valley, to the village of Cos Cob,and has been built into Stamford. There are not a few experienced trolley trippers who say that inscenery and in change of pictures along the route, the journey fromthe Byram River past Belle Haven into Greenwich, is thefinest about New York, that it can only be compared with the
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SUNNYSIDE, IRVINGTON. Upper Westchester. 65 trip to Passaic, Patersorv, Little FolIIs and Singac, New Jersey. Roughly speaking, this trolley journey to Greenwich, from129th street and Third avenue, Harlem River, can be made in 2hours and 20 minutes, (at a cost of 28 cents from the Brooklyn Bridgeby Third Avenue Elevated.) Just outside of Greenwich Village is to be seen the superbcountry place built by Bill Tweed Milbank.11 A quarter ofa mile beyond is Putnams Hill, a high steep overlooking thevalley and Cos Cob. It was here that General Israel Putnammade his famous ride on horseback down the flight of stepswhen pursued by the enemy. Several of the steps are still halfvisible, though a century and a quarter has gone by since theride was taken. A rough stone block keeps green the story ofthe feat, with this inscription: This marks the spotWhere, on February 26, 1779,General Israel Putnam,Cut off from his soldiers,Pursued by British cavalry,Galloped down this rocky steepAnd escaped, dari

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