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Title: New England : a handbook for travelers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : James R. Osgood
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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oint (Pavilion, Guilford PointHouse, &c.), and across the harbor is the bold and picturesque promontoryof Sachems Head, where formerly stood a large hotel. Station, Stony Creek (Stony Creek, Brainerd, Thimble Island, and In-dian Point Houses, all small and inexpensive), famed for its large anddelicious oysters. The romantic group of the Thimble Islands lies offshore here, and may be reached by boat from the Indian Point Hotel(25- 50 c.). On Money and Pot Islands are small and primitive hotels, withcabins and cottages, while around and between these rocky and woodedislets rowing and sailing is full of pleasant surprises. Money Island wasone of the rover Capt. Kidds resorts, and it has been dug aU over bytreasure-seekers. Station, Branford^ (Branford House , on land sold by the Sachemof Quinnipiac to the English in 1638, he being glad to get an ally againstthe dreaded Mohawks. It was named from Brentford, where EdmtmdIronside fought the Danes. The shore hereabouts is lined with sum-
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BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 8. 77 mer hotels, —the Montana, Sea View, Totocket, Pine Orchard, &c. OnIndian Neck are the Indian Neck and Montowese (200 guests) Houses,both about 2 M. from Branford station. At the head of the rocky-shored and island-sprinkled bay of Branford is the large * BranfordPoint House (160-200 guests), distant 8 M. from New Haven, and nearby is the favorite Double Beach House (100 guests, $3-3.50 a day). In 1665, the colonies of Hartford and New Haven were united by royalorder and the common consent. The people of Branford had steadilyopposed this imion, and when it was consummated, they moved in a solidbody, headed by their pastor, and bearing all their household goods, toNewark, N. J., and the site of Branford was silent and deserted foryears. Station, E. Haven, an ancient resort of the Indians (for oysters, &c.),and the seat of iron-works in 1655, now has large copper-smelting works.The train now passes Saltonstall Lake, crosses the Quinnipiac River,

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