Warwick History

A First Glimpse of Warwick, 1830

"Ridge after ridge the mountain sloped down from our feet into a vast rich basin ten miles at least in breadth, by thirty, if not more, in length, girdled on every side by mountains-the whole diversified with wood and watermeadow, and pasture-land, and corn-field-studded with small white villages - with more than one bright lakelet glittering like beaten gold in the declining sun, and several isolated hills standing up boldly from the vale! Away we went again, rattling down the hills ... till on a table-land above the brook, with the tin steeple of its church peering from out the massy foliage of sycamore and locust, the haven of our journey lay before us."

Henry William Herbert aka "Frank Forester"

> Warwick area men who participated in the War for American Independence