Original extent of New Milford. Well watered and fertilized. Beauty of the landscape. Growth of the town. The production of milk and butter. Account of the tobacco industry, by Vincent B. Sterling. The hatting industry. The button industry. The furniture industry. The manufacture of machinery. Paper making. Grist mills and saw mills. The iron industry. Cloth making. Operations in wood and lumber. Quarrying and burning lime rock. The electric light plant. The New Milford Power Company. Pottery making. Account of the Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company by George B. Calhoun. Education in New Milford. The early schools. The Housatonic Institute. Adelphi Institute. The Center School. The first kindergarten. The Ingleside School. The New Milford churches. The Memorial Hall and Library. The New Milford newspapers. The New Milford Brass Band. Roger Sherman Hall. The banks. The Agricultural Society. The water supply. The fire department. The fires of New Milford. The fire of 1902. Recovering from the fire of 1902. Recent growth and improvements. THE STORY OF NEW MILFORD TOLD IN CHRONOLOGICAL EPITOME. By RUSSELL B. NOBLE AND MINOT S. GIDDINGS 98 RECORD OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF ROGER SHERMAN. By HON. EBENEZER J. HILL 115 PART II THE BI-CENTENNIAL EXERCISES INCEPTION AND ORGANIZATION. Call for a meeting in the New Milford Gazette. The meeting. Preamble and resolution adopted. Further action of the meeting. Meeting of the General Committee of Arrangements on July 6, 1906. Action of this meeting. Officers. Sub-committees. Duties of sub-committees. Assessments. Other sub-committees. Names of the officers and members of the General Committee of Arrangements. The members of the special committees. The work accomplished by the various committees. The Finance Committee. The Executive Committee. The Committee on Exercises. The appointment of district committees. Names of the members of the district committees. The Committee on Refreshments. The Committee on Decorations. The Committee on Publicity. The Committee of Invitation, Reception and Entertainment. The Committee on Religious Observances. The Committee of Public Safety. The Historical Committee. The Loan Exhibit Committee. The Committee on Colonial Features. The Committee on Colonial Reception. The Committee on Vocal Music. Rest houses. Committee of Public Health and Comfort. Marshal’s aides. Faithfulness and efficiency of the committees. THE OPENING EXERCISES 136 The weather. Beauty of the decorations on “The Green.” The Doxology rendered by the chimes of all Saints’. The Invocation. Address of welcome by Charles N. Hall. The flag-raising. THE LOAN EXHIBITION 140