NEW LISKEARD 



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NEW LONDON 



East Orange Montclair 



Elizabeth Morristown 



Englewood Newark 



Garfield New Brunswick 



Gloucester City Orange 



Hackensack Passaic 



Harrison Paterson 



Hoboken Perth Amboy 



Irvington Phillipsburg 



Jersey City Plainfleld 



Kearny Rahway 



Long Branch Trenton 

 Millville 



HISTORY 



M .nmouth, Battle of Revolutionary War in 



Princeton, Battle of 



America 

 Trenton, Battle of 



LEADINO PRODUCTS 



Corn Potato 



Pottery 



Muskmelon Silk 



Oyster Strawberry 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



Delaware Raritan 



Delaware Water Gap Sandy Hook 

 Palisades 



NEW LISKEARD, lis'kard, a town in On- 

 tario, in the Timiskaming district, at the head 

 of Lake Timiskaming and on the Timiskaming 

 & Northern Ontario Railway. It is five miles 

 north of Haileybury and ten miles north of 

 Cobalt. Steamers run on the lake between New 

 Li-keard and other points, and connect by a 

 short line with the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 at Mattawa. An electric railway runs to Hailey- 

 bury. New Liskeard is important for its large 

 sawmills, which are its largest industrial estab- 

 lishments, but it also has a gristmill and other 

 manufacturing plants. The electric light and 

 waterworks systems are owned by the town. 

 Population in 1911, 2,108; in 1916, estimated, 

 4,000. 



NEW LONDON, CONN., a city on the west 

 bank of the Thames River, about three miles 

 from the Atlantic Ocean. It is in the soutli- 

 eastern part of the state and is one of the two 



ty seats of New London County, thirteen 

 miles south of Norwich, the other county seat, 

 titty-one miles east of New Haven, and 124 

 miles northeast of New York City. The popu- 

 lation, which includes a number of Italians and 



, was 19,059 in 1910 and 20,985 (Federal 

 estimate) in 1916. 



harbor is one of the best on the Atlantic 

 seaboard. A state appropriation of $1,000,000 

 has provided for wharves and docks (under con- 

 ation in 1917 for transatlantic steamships. 



re is regular steamer service to New York 

 and other ports. The city is on the New York, 



New Haven A Hartford Railroad, between 

 New York and Boston, and is the terminus of 

 the Central Vermont road. There are interur- 

 ban lines to New Haven, Norwich and other 

 cities. A great railroad drawbridge spans the 

 Thames between New London and Groton 

 Heights. At this place is Fort Griswold, an old 

 fort of the War of Independence, and a United 

 States naval station. 



Buildings and Parks. The interesting features 

 of the city include a Federal building; a cus- 

 tomhouse built many years ago; the county 

 courthouse, built in 1784; a public library; the 

 New London County Historical Society and 

 Library; two memorial hospitals; Hotel Gris- 

 wold; the Hempstead House, one of the oldest 

 houses in the state; the Old Town Mill, built 

 about 1645 and still running, and the little 

 schoolhouse where Nathan Hale once taught. 

 There are two endowed high schools, one for 

 boys and one for girls, and an endowed man- 

 ual training and industrial school. Ocean Beach, 

 with municipal bathhouses, Riverside, Williams, 

 Memorial and other parks are attractive places. 

 The city contains the Woman's College of Con- 

 necticut and the School of Instruction for the 

 United States Revenue Cutter Service. Each 

 year the Yale-Harvard boat race occurs on the 

 Thames River, an event which attracts thou- 

 sands of spectators. 



Industry. Manufacturing is the principal in- 

 dustry of the city. Tflere are large silk mills 

 producing embroidery and spool silk, wash silks 

 and dress silks of every kind, and satin linings. 

 The annual output of one mill is valued at 

 $2,500,000. Other important manufactures in- 

 clude bed quilts and blankets, cotton gins and 

 printing presses, gear-cutting and centering ma- 

 chines, hot-water and steam-heating apparatus, 

 and brass and copper tubes. There are ship- 

 building and repair yards. One of the best- 

 known wrecking and salvage linns on the At- 

 lantic coast keeps in close touch with marine 

 disaster by a wireless tower. 



History. New London was founded in 1646 

 by John Winthrop, the younger. It was first 

 known by the Indian name of Namcaug, and 

 the river was known as the Monhegin. Both 

 names were changed in 1658 in honor of Lon- 

 don and the Thames in England. Before the 

 War of Independence New London was the cen- 

 of an important whaling industry. In the 

 fall of 1781, a British force commanded by Bene- 

 dict Arnold destroyed the city and wharves, 

 and at Fort Griswold executed eighty-four 

 American soldiers, after a number of tin m had 



