Excerpt from The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Litchfield, Connecticut, August 1-4, 1920: Compiled for the Litchfield Historical Society The public and mercantile buildings, and with scarcely an exception, the houses in the Borough were profusely deco rated. The display of flags was remarkable, many rare ban ners and emblems of national and political character being shown. The facade of the Beckwith house on South Street was nearly dovered with thirteen different flags, each one connected with some phase of American history, including sev eral of the original colonies, the famous Rattlesnake emblem, early Revolutionary banners and a Civil War flag that was under fire at Fort Sumter, while on the Seymour homestead next door was a large and beautiful flag of the Order of the Cincinnati. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.