Second of two parts. In the previous column, we toured the
present-day East Cemetery on the Old Post Road. But in looking
at its origin in 1830 by a town body called the First Located
School Society, we found ourselves wandering back to 17th-
century England, when the king granted his Connecticut colony a
hefty slice of North America. We then jumped ahead a century to
see Connecticut give almost all of it away to cancel
Revolutionary War debts and settle a shooting war with
Pennsylvania. Connecticut's consolation prize was an isolated
fragment of its former colonial real estate holdings, more than
five hundred miles west of Hartford. You've probably heard of
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, but you probably
didn't know that it's named after the above-noted remnant of
Connecticut's legacy from Charles II, which became known as the
Western Reserve. Three million acres all told, it extended south
to the 41st parallel from the shores of Lake Erie and west from
the newly drawn western border of Pennsyl