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To Order From The Gift Shop:
Write to:
Bookstore
P.O. Box 651
Kent, CT 06757
or Call: 860-927-4587
For mail orders, please include $5 S&H per item
for One Small Town and A Register of Some
Kent Families and $3 S&H for all other items.
For large orders, please contact the society.
Make check or money order to Kent Historical
Society, PO Box 651, Kent, CT 06757. Please include
your name, address phone number and email with your
order. Orders will be shipped upon receipt of payment.
Questions? Call 860-927-4587 or email
kenthistorical@att.net
** Map of Kent:
This ancient map of Kent was printed in 1874 in the
Beers Atlas. The book is entitled County Atlas of
Litchfield Connecticut, From Actual Surveys by and under
the Direction of F.W. Beers. Published by F.W. Beers
& Co. 36 Velsey Street, New York. 1874.
The table of contents includes Town Plans, Village
Plans, Table of Distances, Post Offices, Population,
United States Map, Connecticut Map, County Map, and
Business Notes. This last page is missing from our edition.
Mr. Beers divided the town map according to the existing
numbered school districts. Before the present Kent Center
School was built, each hamlet in town had its own one
room school, and often a post office or a small store.
If you look carefully, you will see that there is no
District #11. That schoolhouse was originally located
on a treacherously steep road in an area later incorporated
into Geer Mountain District #7. Because of the difficulty
of access, the school was closed and District #11 was
absorbed by the surrounding districts.
Another close inspection reveals that many of the roads
no longer exist. Often the traces of these old roads
may be found in the woods today. The remaining roads,
with a few straightened curves and rock cuts through
hills, are well traveled by today's high speed traffic.
Color copies of this map are available for $10, or
a two-sided map with a similar close-up map of the village
center on the reverse side for $15. One-sided laminated
copies of the town are $15. Laminated copies of the
double-sided map are $20.
The laminated copies of this map make it ideal for
taking out on the road as you prowl around the byways
of Kent.
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