The road to Alford and the East Road to Sheffield are rivals in beauty. The latter skirts June Mountain (named for Benjamin June who cleared it) and crosses Sheffield Plain. From Sheffield, The Dome [1] of the Taconics appears so near and so soft in its outlines that one would never dream of that ragged, precipitous Bash Bish gorge on its slope. The famous Sage's Ravine lies between Race and Bear mountains, and the Ice Gulf west of Lake Buel.

In Sheffield is Barnard Mountain and the Barnard homestead, the home of Major-General Barnard, "the soldier- scholar of our Civil War"; Dr. Frederick A. P. Barnard, President of Columbia University, was born in Sheffield, and Daniel Dewey Barnard, minister Prussia; also, George F. Root. the composer. Not far from Sheffield's "Big Elm," in which " The Autocrat" delighted, lived the Rev. Orville Dewey, one of the best beloved exponents of Unitarianism. The " Friendly Union " building is a memorial to Dr. Dewey.

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