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Special
thank you to Jarl
Granskog for allowing me to borrow his postcards.
Wiantenuck
Farm, Redding Ridge, Conn. is the title of this Postcard.
It was sent Nov. 8, 1910 to W.J. Masson to his son in Oklahoma
City. The gentleman sending the postcard writes: "This
is Peck's Windmill. It looks different than it did when you
and I climbed it on that windy day long ago." (postcard
submitted by Jarl Granskog)
The postcard
reads: Villa Linta, Residence of Com. Liittgen, Redding Ridge,
Conn. It was sent Oct. 11, 1910 to W.J. Masson to his son
in Oklahoma City. The gentleman sending the postcard writes:
"This is Howard Sherman's Palace..."(postcard submitted
by Jarl Granskog)
A view
of Phillip's Cave and the log staircase leading across to
it. Phillip was a runaway slave that lived in the cave at
Putnam Park for several years living off his neighbors supply
of livestock and agriculture.(postcard submitted by Jarl Granskog)
Putnam
Park Pond (pre-lillypad invasion). The view is from atop the
lookout near the museum building. It is tough to see it but
at 2 o'clock in the picture there is an icehouse with a loading
channel extending into the pond.(postcard submitted by Jarl
Granskog)
A frontal
view of the "Old Put Club" clubhouse. Notice the
horse and buggy in front of the house.
A view
from the rear of the "Old Put Club" clubhouse.
Putnam
Park's commissioners, with Soldier's Bridge in left background
in 1906.
The same
view as above in 1991.
Officer's
cabin in Putnam Park from a postcard published by H.S. Hoyt
of Bethel, CT in 1908.(postcard submitted by Jarl Granskog)
Waiting
for the start of a joyful and long-remembered 1919 welcome
home celebration at Putnam Park were a soldier, Jack O"Keefe,
Samuel C. Shaw, Milo Osborn (with hat and cigar), Lemuel Sanford,
and Alice Sanford, the young lady with flag.(From 1967 Redding
Bicentennial Program, Historical Society Photos)
The West
Redding general store, when it was also a rail station and
post office, about 1920. A long succession of owners have
"kept store" here; J. Birdsey Sanford (not a relative
of E.P.) for one of the longest periods.(From 1967 Redding
Bicentennial Program, Historical Society Photos)
From
right to left: Jap, John and Mondo at the Georgetown Market
in 1959.
A 1911
postcard of Putnam Lake. This postcard was purchased at English
Drug in Bethel sometime around the turn of the century. The
view is from the road (Rt. 58) midway across the pond looking
toward Redding. *Notice the Clubhouse in the background-this
was the clubhouse of the Rogers Peat Company's hunting club.
If you
read the Georgetown history page, you may remember this man:
George Washington Gilbert- He is the hermit Jim Driscoll mentions.
George lived in an abandoned house foundation for most of
his life. Born in 1847, he died in 1924.
If you missed the article-here's the link: Mr.
Driscoll
Topstone
Train Station, also referred to as Sanford Station.
Topstone
Train Station in 1910.
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