20240928

10:00 am

155 Ashpotag Road, Norfolk CT

Join Norfolk’s town historian, Richard Byrne, for a Walk to Stoney Lonesome — a Norfolk Land Trust site.   Richard will guide hikers to the other side of Route 44 and the old railroad tracks that used to run through West Norfolk. The railroad was built in Norfolk in 1871. It was not an easy task because of the steep grade and hilly terrain. The route from Norfolk to Canaan wound around Haystack and Bald Mountains, and then passed through a rocky gorge blasted from the hillside known as Stoney Lonesome. This was the site of a train wreck that occurred in March of 1882, and several years ago Richard found the pin which had been used to pull the train back onto the tracks from the embankment below. Find out more about the history of the railroad and the legendary train wreck on this hike.