Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1918 — Putnam's Camp. [ARTICLE]

Putnam's Camp.

Ahont 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 If emorial camp, better kpown as Putnam park. During the summer and fell this Is more or less a resort for folk from Danbury, Bethel and Hadding But In December it lies well nigh deserted and still as ft did when, in 1778, “Old»Put” selected it and two neighboring rites for a winter quarters of the weary right wing of the Continental army. Though this park wag begun In 1887 and practically complete by 1890, it Is much less generally known and visited than Valley Forge park, In Pennsylvania, which wan not begun until 1898.