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Excerpt from An Historical Address: Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Village Library Company of Farmington, Connecticut, September 14, 1904 Meadow gate to the south side of Round Hill, to Crane Hall and to divers other places, all which information is open to the perusal of the curious. The branch known first as the road to Hartford, and then, as it entered the forest, simply as the Hartford Path, crossed Poke Brook as now, and, climbing Bird's Hill, passed localities whose obsolete names were once household words. The traveler soon reached the Rock Chair, corruptly known as the Devil's Rocking Chair, on his left, and a few rods beyond came to the Mile Tree, near the present remains of the stone-crusher, and opposite the Mile Swamp or Round Swamp, of bad repute as engulfing stray animals in its treacherous depths. Then, leaving Prat tling Pond on his left and the wolf-pit path on his right, his course lay along the Old Road to Hartford, the favorite route sixty years ago. A branch, known of record as the Road to Durty Hole, ran north from Poke Brook to con nect with Clatter Valley Road, and a highway running south, recently named by the wisdom of our borough fathers High Street, and laid out in 1673, was long known as Back Lane. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.