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Plainfield Academy: Grooming Connecticut Scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries

July 22, 2022 • Education, Plainfield, Work

Founded in the late 18th century, the Plainfield Academy went on to become just the third school incorporated in the state of Connecticut.

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Aldrich Free Public Library, Plainfield

Aldrich Free Public Library: Dedicated to the Dissemination of Knowledge

Residents of the Moosup section of Plainfield organized a free public library “for the promotion and dissemination of useful knowledge” to its local citizenry.

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Colonel William Douglas

William Douglas: A Colonial Hero’s Sacrifice

William Douglas was a successful merchant and military leader who settled in North Branford just prior to the Revolutionary War.

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Walt Dropo, Boston Red Sox

Walt Dropo Stars Throughout New England

Few major league baseball players had rookie seasons as good as Walt Dropo’s while playing for the Boston Red Sox in 1950.

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Laboring in the Shade

Thousands of Black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut’s tobacco fields.

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Bird's-eye map of Moosup, Conn. Uniondale and Almyville,

A Bird’s-eye View of Moosup

This depiction of a Quinebaug Valley town and its satellite communities—Uniondale and Almyville—records an idealized view of the 19th-century textile boom.

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Over Time: Plainfield’s Historical Population

March 9, 2014 • Hide Featured Image, Plainfield

Census 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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