Almost every Connecticut town has an Elm Street, named for the popular trees that grew in abundance until a fungal infestation greatly diminished their numbers.
ReadThis map, “Camp à Contorbery, le 7 Novembre, 10 milles de Windham,” is a page from the manuscript atlas Amérique Campagne 1782.
ReadA headmistress champions education for African American women and although forced to close her school in 1834, she helped win the battle for generations that followed.
ReadPrudence Crandall was born in 1803 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, the daughter of Quaker parents.
ReadIn the mid-19th century, Connecticut looked toward changing its electoral processes as well as its civil rights record.
ReadConnecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.
ReadCensus data, from colonial times on up to the present, is a key resource for those who study the ways in which communities change with the passage of time.
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