Preliminary announcement, foundation, organization, site, and plans . The River Section, Between Mohegan Avenue and the Thames Building Site and Grounds 25 the foot of the property, offers, in a corner of this section, thenatural location of the College power-house. The Southwest Section is made up of the Allyn and thePalmer gifts, about one hundred and thirty acres in all, be-tween Williams Street and Bayonet Street. This is a rollinglandscape, skirting on its southerly border the settled streetsof New London, offering immediate opportunity for gardensand orchards and future prospects of town
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Preliminary announcement, foundation, organization, site, and plans . The River Section, Between Mohegan Avenue and the Thames Building Site and Grounds 25 the foot of the property, offers, in a corner of this section, thenatural location of the College power-house. The Southwest Section is made up of the Allyn and thePalmer gifts, about one hundred and thirty acres in all, be-tween Williams Street and Bayonet Street. This is a rollinglandscape, skirting on its southerly border the settled streetsof New London, offering immediate opportunity for gardensand orchards and future prospects of town planning.. The Hemlocks of Bolleswood, Western Section The West Section includes the special piece of woodland, thirteen acres in extent, known as Bolleswood, the giftof Miss Anna Hempstead Branch, in memory of her grand-father. It is a little wilderness of natural beauty—groves ofhemlock and laurel with outcropping rock, ledges, and precipice. The general accessibility of the estate by good roads andtrolley line, the proximity of the city proper, with its churches, library, opera house, and shops, and of the Union RailwayStation (New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. and theCentral Vermont R. R.), distant about a mile from the southend of the estate, make the estate as here described, highlysuitable in point of convenience. 26 Connecticut College New London offers the best possible transportation facil-ities, midway between Boston and New York, a beautifuland healthful environment, and the historical associations ofone of the most famous of New England towns.