Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Putnam’s Gamp. [ARTICLE]

Putnam’s Gamp.

About two and a half miles southeast of Bethel, Connecticut, by a road that winds through rolling farm country and then plunges into a succession of tight little wooded valleys, lies Putnam Memorial camp, better known as Putnam park. During the summer and fall this is more or less a resort for folk from Danbury, Bethel and Redding. But In December It lies well nigh deserted and still as it did when, In 1778, “Old Put” selected it and two neighboring sites for a winter quarters of the weary right wing of the Continental army. Though this park was begun In 1887 and practically complete by 1890, it is much less generally known and visited than Valley Forge park. In Pennsylvania, which was not begun until 1893."