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    Bethlehem
    Bethlehem
    Bethlehem
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    Bethlehem

    By Carol Ann Brown

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    Settled in 1734, Bethlehem is a typical Litchfield hill town and retains much of its rural charm. Around its green are an old post tavern at the Woodward House, two historic churches, and the Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden. Rev. Joseph Bellamy came to Bethlehem in 1738 and stayed to establish the first theological school in the country, educating Aaron Burr, James Morris, and later John C. Calhoun. In 1938, postmaster Earl Johnson designed a rubber stamp to adorn cards sent from the post office attached to his family s general store. This first cachet became an annual project and established Bethlehem as the Christmas town. In 1946, two Benedictine nuns came to stay with artist Lauren Ford while establishing the Abbey of Regina Laudis in a factory donated by local businessman Robert Leather. Every September for the last 85 years, the Bethlehem Fair has welcomed more than 60,000 people to apple pies and horse draws at its scenic fairgrounds.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 7, 2009
    ISBN9781439622131
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    Carol Ann Brown

    Carol Ann Brown is a real estate agent in Northern California. Carol sells new homes and is one of the top sales agents in her office. Carol attended the College of Alameda in Alameda, California. She also attended Anthony Real Estate School, where she received her real estate license. Carol’s hobby is writing, and she has written another manuscript called Destined, which is also a fiction story.

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      Bethlehem - Carol Ann Brown

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      INTRODUCTION

      To celebrate the country’s bicentennial in 1976, a sign was placed by the town of Bethlehem, the Old Bethlem Historical Society, and the Connecticut Historical Commission in front of the new town office building, welcoming visitors to the small village. Quoted from the sign, the brief history that follows hopefully encourages the traveler to stop at one of the historic houses or to take a walk around the green.

      The spring session of the 1703 General Assembly granted to the town of Woodbury the right to enlarge its bounds. Negotiations with the Indian inhabitants were successfully concluded and in 1710 a deed of sale, signed by Nunawague and five other chiefs, conveyed to Woodbury nearly eighteen thousand acres, known thereafter as the North Purchase. This included the present town of Bethlehem and parts of the later Judea, now Washington. Surveyed in 1723, and, after proprietors were granted their rights, divided into lots, it was opened for sale. Pioneers arrived in 1734, settling on the heights northeast of the present center. In 1738 young Joseph Bellamy was called to preach during winter privileges. Separate society privileges were granted in October 1739. Bellamy was requested to continue as pastor, and so remained until his death in 1790, as the settlers established their own Bethlem Church and school. Doctor Bellamy became a most distinguished author, preacher and teacher, conducting the first theological school in American. Young men lived in the Bellamy home while he grounded them in his brand of scriptural interpretation and preaching methods. Among future leaders who studied there were Aaron Burr, Jonathan Edwards II, and James Morris. Bethlem men served in the French and Indian and subsequent wars. Numerous are the captains and lieutenants buried in the Old Cemetery. Bethlem was incorporated as a separate town in 1787. Mainly a farming community until the 1900’s, it had sufficient water power for 18th Century industries—fulling mills, cotton mill, woolen mill, wagon factory, straw hat and bonnet factory and miscellaneous manufactories of leather goods.

      This 1835 sketch, The Old Bethlem Green, by John Warner Barber appeared in his book Connecticut Historical Collections in 1836. (Connecticut Historical Collections.)

      This 1874 map of Bethlehem from the Atlas of Litchfield County, 1874, shows the nine school districts. (Atlas of Litchfield County.)

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      EARLY HOMES

      This undated postcard says, Walter Hill’s Residece. Walter Hill lived at the bottom of Wood Creek Road near the former farm of Shaker Assard. (Mary Woodward.)

      The home of Rev. Joseph Bellamy was the site of the first theological school in the United States in 1754. He was one of the best-known orators of the Great Awakening led by Jonathan Edwards. No paintings or sketches of Bellamy exist, but he was said to stand six feet five inches and weigh over 300 pounds. In 1744, he purchased land north of the town green, and it became the site of his residence until his death in 1790. Note the cow grazing on the estate lawns on the left of this c. 1900 photograph. (OBHS.)

      David Bellamy (1750–1825), son of Joseph Bellamy, lived in the house and worked as a farmer. (FCB.)

      Joseph Hart Bellamy (1788–1848), a lawyer, was the only child of David Bellamy and the grandson of Joseph Bellamy. In 1892, Elizabeth Bellamy Loomis, Joseph Hart Bellamy’s daughter, donated these paintings to the town of Bethlehem. (FCB.)

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