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Idle water streams soon leaped upon his water wheels, and with tireless gladness helped on his course. The patient genius of education took his little ones in care, and taught their young minds to plan and their hands to execute new triumphs in his progress. The old forests and all the profitless savagery of Indian life soon gave way, and farms and schools, industry and thrift, civilization and religion, homes of comfort and of elegance attested the presence of the more intelligent, and permanent race. For two hundred and twenty-six years that race have now on this ground plied their intelligence, their invention, their industry and their skill.
Six or'seven generations of their children have here grown up, borne their part in the great work of man on earth, and left the accumulating treasures of their career as a precious legacy to the generation which now have occasion to rejoice in the succession. And why may we not, why should we not gather up the lessons which those busy years can furnish?
Who would refuse to trace the record which Providence has here drawn? Who withhold from the hardy pioneers who inaugurated, and from the wise and valiant men who have transmitted with the added luster of their own bright fame, this noble inheritance to us? Surely, not the worthy sons of names so worthy. Surely, not the natives of other towns, who have been drawn hither by the charms or the promises of good which their earlier homes could.
Every just, every filial, every honorable son or citizen of Stamford must respond to the claim which his native or adopted town has to a permanent and instructive memorial. It were as undutiful, as it is unjust to the departed generations, to refuse such a tribute. No pains should be deemed too costly, which can secure it. It was such a feeling which moved the author, some d'ozen years ago, to examine the records of the town to learn if they offered sufficient material towards such a work.
Though very imperfect, almost illegible in some places and defaced or totally wanting in others; though exceedingly meager everywhere, except in recording the annual lists of town officers, from selectmen down to the key-keeper of the town pound, there still seemed enough of the earlier records left to justify the attempt.
Thanks to the providence of our town officers twenty-five years ago, by whom the mutilated aud rapidly wasting remnants of the old records were carefully arranged and bound together for preservation. This township, whose story for two and a quarter centuries I have undertaken to tell, occupies about one-third of that seacoast parallelogram which stretches off from the southwest corner of Connecticut. By the original grant, made over by the Indians, it must have covered nearly that entire parallelogram, together with a parallel strip lying on the north of it and now owing allegiance to the Empire State.
But by the excision of several portions of the tract, the Stamford to which my research is mainly limited, has come to occupy the central part of the first grant-a tract now, not far from ten miles in length from 1. It is bounded on the north-north-west by the towns of North Castle and Poundridge; on the eastnorth-east by the towns of New Canaan and Norwalk; on the south-south-east by Long Island Sound, and on the west-southwest by Greenwich. This entire tract has a gentle slope towards the soutl-southwest, and its surface is made up of a not ungraceful succession of ridges havingc the same general direction, yet of the greatest possible variety of length and contour, yet gradually lifting themselves to greater elevations towards the north, where the central one has by common consent won the distinction of our High Ridge.
Of all the hills and valleys and plains bounded and separated by these brooks and streams, the time would fail me to write. To be known, they must be seen; and, seen in the freshness of their summer dress, they will be felt to be a goodly sight. Whoever scans them, clothed with the variegated hues of the early autumn, will call them pleasant and beautiful.
A very accurate eye and a sober judgment the topographist had, who wrote of this town a quarter of a century ago: "This is a pleasant and fertile township; rich in the resources of agricultural opulence, abounding in the means of subsistence, with the advantages of a ready and convenient market. The surface of the town is undulating, exhibiting a pleasant diversity of moderate hills and valleys.
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The soil is a rich gravelly loam, adapted to both tillage and grazing. Dwight, who traveled over large portions of our broad land that he might observe and note their excellences or their defects. His judgment is worth transcribing for this preliminary chapter of our history: "There are three uncommonly interesting spots in this township; one on the western side of the harbor which is called the Southfield, a rich and beautiful farm. This also is an elegant and fertile piece of ground.
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The surface slopes in every direction, and is encircled by a collection of exquisite scenery. The Sound and Long Island beyond it, with a gracefully indented shore, are directly in front; and both strefch westward to a vast distance, and seaward till the eye is lost. On each side, also, lies a harbor, bounded by handsome points. The farm itself is a delightful object, with its fields neatly inclosed, its orchards and its groves.
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Rogers'has formed an avenue a mile in length, reaching to the water's edge. At the same time he has planted on the grounds surrounding his house, almost all the forest trees which are indigenous to this country. To these he has united' plantations of fruit trees, a rich garden and other interesting objects so combined as to make this one of the pleasautest retreats in the United States.
On tlis spot, in very advantageous situations, have been erected two large mills for the manufacture of flour, and a small village or rather hamlet for mechanics of various kinds. The view of the harbor in front, the points by which it is Ilimited, the small but beautiful islands which it contains, the Sound, the Long Island shore, a noble sheet of water in the rear, the pleasant village of Noroton, and the hills and groves in the interior is rarely equalled by scenery of the same nature, especially when taken from a plain scarcely elevated above the level of the ocean.
Dwight, to the beauty of these three still noticeable points in the topography of the town.
Nearly fifty years have passed since that judgment was penned; and during this period the progress of settlement or of improvement has added many a locality, whose natural or cultivated beauty equals or exceeds these. Whoever traverses this tract from east to west, over almost any one of our roads will find himself fiequently surprised by a sudden view of some charming landscape-whose beauty is only enhanced by the silvery edging of its southern front.
Such views one will be glad to linger upon, from our Richmond, and Strawberry, and Noroton, and Summer, and Ox ridge elevations, near the Sound; and from Fort and White hills, from Hunting and Davenport and Long and High ridges, further to the north. And besides these, a score of other summits might be named, each one of which is itself a gem set in the coronal of our summer landscape, yet most of all delightful for what it shows us, of the broad panorama in which it lies. In his centennial address, delivered here in , the Rev. Alvord, who had evidently spent no little time in his historical inquiries, gives this explanation of the name.
But if it was true, that an English town gave name to the New England settlement, it would yet be a question which of the three places in the mother land, should have the honor. It right have been the Stamford Bridge, in Yorkshire, on the Derwent, a place famous for that successful contest in which Harold utterly defeated the insolent Norwegian invasion.
The orthography of the name, as reported by Hume is precisely that which we find on our earlier records; it is not so remote from the theatre of the good Mr. Denton's earlier ministerial labors, as not, for some reason or other, to have been chosen as a fitting name for the new settlement. Or it may have been that other. We know not but the very loveliness of this beautiful town of the charming Teme, may have been seen or fancied to belong, in its elements at least, to the new township on the margin of the New England Rippowam.
Good authority, at a later date, has told us that " the situation of Stamford is delightful.
It is the hearty and affectionate tribute of the talented Mrs. Sherwood-her skillful photograph of the dearest scenes of her childhood, in which she would commend to all her readers " the lovely parsonage of Stamford, the elegant home in which I was born. Sherwood may, with equal truth, so daguerreotype the charms of more than one home in the Stamford, yet to be, here in this Southwestern corner of Connecticut. But, perhaps, as has been generally supposed, the name comes from the Stamford of Lincolnshire.
That, also, was a border town, and like this, on the Southwestern extreme of the county. And there are, possibly, other local and historical reasons which may seem to indicate this as the original, to whose scenery or to the affection of whose dutiful children, our New England Stamford owes its name. As to the English homes of our settlers, our utmost diligence has failed to trace a single family to the Lincolnshire Stamford.
Indeed, but one of the earlier names of our pioneers, has been found on any of the Stamford records we have seen. The Browns, a name, universal almost as the Smiths, were early in the ancient English Stamford of Lincoln. And they were also of no little repute. Their monuments still speak of their fame. The church of All Saints, standing on the north side of the Red 2. Lion Square, in the old English town, was the gift of John Brown, who was an alderman of the city in ; and in the St. Mary's can now be seen brass figures of William Brown and his wife.
A hospital, also, founded in the reign of the third Richard, is still a monument here to the humanity of this WTilliam Brown. Not far from this Stamford, on the borders of Leicestershire, Mr. Denton had his nativity, and spent his earlier years; and it is not improbable that some feature of the place made so favorable impression on his boyhood, that when he came to stand, in manhood, at the head of this yet nameless settlement, he could find no fitter or worthier name for the place which he intended to make the home for his old age.
But sometimes the subtlest of influences establishes a new empire, to which the most trifling occurrence, a mere slight resemblance even, shall give its name. So, doubtless it was some slight feature of many of the townships in New England, which led to the selection of their names,-their peculiar water margin, their running streams, their hills, or valleys, or plains; and the same unimportant hint which settled the choice of the founders, settled also the name assigned to the town thus founded.
I confess myself to have been not a little surprised by Simpson's engraving of the Lincolnshire Stamford. It is found in Allen's History of the County of Lincoln. It is a southerly view of the old town, and the first impression it gave me was that of a veritable prototype of the modern Connecticut Stamford, as seen from the south-west. The two landscapes are strikingly alike. The five steeples or towers are almost literally reproduced in the modern engraving of the modern Stamford. A large castellated mansion towards the right of the old picture, occupies nearly the position of the Noroton Hill residences, on our map; and the almost involuntary decision was, there need be no wonder why the founders called these hills and wooded slopes another Stamford.
Nor was the resemblance scarcely less, in the engraving found. And if the self same mold gave form and feature to the two; why should not the same express them both? But how completely, a careful study of these pictures of the English Stamford, would dispel the illusion that they designed to illustrate the trans-Atlantic town.
The artificial of the two is all unlike. The architecture of the one antedates by long centuries the other.