Norwich is a city in New London County, in the southeast corner of Connecticut. The Yantic, Shetucket, and Quinebaug Rivers flow into the city and form its harbor, from which the Thames River flows south to Long Island Sound. The town of Norwich was founded on the site of what is now Norwichtown, an inland location chosen to be the center of a primarily agricultural farming community. Laurel Hill is a predominantly historic district south of downtown Norwich. This area was developed as a residential district beginning in 1850 and includes a significant number of well-preserved Italianate and Gothic Revival houses. It is located south of downtown, separated from it by the Shetucket River, and is characterized by a relatively steep hillside. Laurel Hill Avenue, its principal roadway, runs south from a pair of bridges over that river, parallel to the Thames River, on a terrace of the hillside. Spruce Street, River Avenue, and Sumer Street are secondary residential streets paralleling Laurel Hill Avenue on different levels of the hill. The hill was largely undeveloped before because of its difficult terrain until 1850, when a consortium of developers purchased most of the land in the area, laid out Laurel Hill Avenue and began promoting it as a residential suburban area.
This is a “RaphoType” published by “Raphael Tuck & Sons” and captures an early view of “Laurel Hill”. Tuck was an important dealer of prints when he retired, and his sons took over the family business in 1881. When postal regulations were changed in 1889, Tuck & Sons immediately began the printing of postcards and continued to be a major printer of cards until 1953.
This card is a UDB postmarked 1907 and is in fair to good condition with minor wear and other than cancellation ink and album corners, the image is clean, clear, and nicely colored. The reverse is clean.
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