2-752-352 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Connecticut, above Middletown', 1874. The Connecticut River at Middletown, Connecticut, USA. 'Above Middletown, a few miles, is Wethersfield, claimed by some to be the oldest settlement in the Commonwealth'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]