Along the Valley Line. Max R. Miller
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Название: Along the Valley Line

Автор: Max R. Miller

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Техническая литература

Серия: Garnet Books

isbn: 9780819577382

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      HIGGANUM

      Higganum station for both passenger and freight was on the west side of the tracks situated on the north side at the last curve on Depot Road. A 28-foot addition was added on the north end of the building in May 1881. This one-story building (page 27) was razed after it was badly damaged by fire on August 27, 1966.

      MAROMAS

      Maromas Station was a two-story building on the west side of the tracks located near the present Middletown jet engine plant of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. The second floor contained living space usually occupied by railroad employees.

      Benvenue Station was a small one-story building on the east side of the tracks near the present electric generating plant at Maromas. It became Laurel Station on August 12, 1914 and was originally built to serve workers of the granite quarries nearby. In 1914 there were nine houses and a 60-room resort hotel in this area.

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      On Thursday March 23, 1871, the directors located the passenger and freight depot for Chester, known as Lords Farm. Chester subscribed to $17,500 in stock. Unfortunately, it was not as simple as that.

      Right away, on Saturday, April 22, 1871, the directors called a meeting to deal with two additional station sites that had been petitioned by citizens in Chester and Haddam and so ordered by the General Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut. In Chester the additional station was to be, “immediately north of the highway [now Dock Road], leading to the Steamboat Landing in the Town of Chester.”4 This station was the original Chester Station. About eight months after the team located Lords Farm, at a meeting of the board of directors held on January 9, 1872, participants voted:

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