Ohio History Journal

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RUTLAND-"THE CRADLE OF OHIO

RUTLAND-"THE CRADLE OF OHIO."

 

A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE HOME OF RUFUS PUTNAM.

E. O. RANDALL.

It was in the bright and cheery days of September, 1908,

that the Editor left the palatial Pullman car at Worcester and

boarded a trolley that bore

him along a rambling route

amid tiny lakes and quiet

hills to the little burg of Jef-

ferson. Here the trolley was

exchanged for a motor bus,

the electric wings of which

fluttered with intermittent and

uncertain rapidity till the pas-

sengers were delivered at the

steps of the broad piazza of

the Muschopauge hotel, a hos-

pitable and spacious summer

abode crowning the hill which

boasts of being one of the

highest elevations of the noble

commonwealth of Massachu-

setts. Certainly the "Cradle.

of Ohio" was most picturesquely chosen. Rutland lies in

the center of the state and from the lookout of the afore-

said hostelry an unsurpassed panorama meets the eye, a scene

where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend, sparkling

lakelets dot the plains and rippling rivulets run their sil-

ver courses around the feet of tree-clad hillsides. Rutland is

on the midway divide between the valleys of the Connecticut

and Merrimac rivers. It revels in the pride of its position and

we were told that on a clear day the spectator's range of vision

sweeps in the blue hills of Milton, near the Atlantic, the High-

lands on the Connecticut, while Wachusett rises close at hand

in the adjacent town of Princeton, and old Monadnock, mon-

arch of all he surveys, rears his rugged outline against the north-

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