A speech delivered by George W. Cooke (1847-1938) as part of a program at the Connecticut Tercentenary Celebration in Northford, Connecticut on July 27 to July 28, 1935.
Includes a transcript of a talk delivered about the prominent Northford Reverend Warham Williams and his aunt, Eunice Williams, who was captured in the Deerfield Massacre in 1704.
Includes information about the murder of Emily Cooper in North Branford in 1849. Also included is information about the murderer, Henry Leander Foote, newspaper accounts of the murder and more.
Includes some history of the Shoreline Electric Railway and the Great North Branford Trolley as well as accounts of the wreck that occurred in August 1917.