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Featured Stories from CT History

Rescue Scene, Hurricane, September 1938
The Great Hurricane of 1938 – Today in History: September 21
September 21, 2020
Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
September 20, 2020
Connecticut’s Chickamauga Tree: An Investigation
September 19, 2020
Climax Fuse Company, 1899
Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace
September 18, 2020
Battle Flag Parade, Hartford, Connecticut, September 17, 1879
A Day of Celebration – Today in History: September 17
September 17, 2020
Enoch Smith Woods, Colonel Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton: A Small Town’s National Hero
September 16, 2020
Red Cross Headquarters, Hurricane of 1944
The Great Atlantic Hurricane Hits Connecticut
September 14, 2020
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive poster of Victor Manuel Gerena
Financing a Free Puerto Rico: The Great Wells Fargo Heist of 1983
September 13, 2020
Second Congregational Church, Greenwich
Bucket Brigade to the Rescue – Today in History: September 12
September 12, 2020
Combate de Cavite, 10 de Mayo 1898
The Colvocoresses Oak
September 11, 2020
The Wallingford Oneida Community
September 10, 2020
Combat between the Frigate Constitution and the British Frigate Guerriere
A Patriotic Legacy in Print
September 10, 2020
Sol Lewitt, Certificate of Ownership and Diagram Wall Drawing #614
Painter, Muralist, Sculptor Sol LeWitt born – Today in History: September 9
September 9, 2020
Aerial view of Connecticut State Prison
Wethersfield Prison Blues
September 8, 2020
Greased pole, Labor Day picnic, Colt Park, Hartford
Labor Day at the Turn of the 20th Century
September 7, 2020
Fort Griswold, 1781
Fort Griswold Attacked – Today in History: September 6
September 6, 2020
General Nathaniel Lyon
From the State Historian: The Final Journey of Nathaniel Lyon
September 5, 2020
Straitsville Schoolhouse, Naugatuck
Child Labor vs. Schooling in 19th-century Naugatuck
September 4, 2020
Prudence Crandall
State Heroine Prudence Crandall
September 3, 2020
Hartford’s Les Payne, Trailblazing Journalist
September 2, 2020
Horse race, Goshen Fair, 1911
Goshen Fairs Well with Agricultural Enthusiasts
September 2, 2020
The southeast block of West Street, Litchfield as it looked in the Civil War era, 1867
The Peace Movement in Litchfield
September 1, 2020
John Warner Barber, South view of the Hempstead house, New London, 1836
Joshua Hempsted Born – Today in History: September 1
September 1, 2020
Poli's Palace Theatre, Waterbury
Sylvester Poli, Negotiating Cultural Politics in an Age of Immigration
August 31, 2020
Silkworms, Cheney Brothers, Manchester
Connecticut’s Mulberry Craze
August 30, 2020
Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29
August 29, 2020
Horses crossing the finish line at Charter Oak Park
And They’re Off!: Harness Racing at Charter Oak Park
August 28, 2020
Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose
August 27, 2020
Honiss Oyster House, Hartford
Oystering in Connecticut, from Colonial Times to the 21st Century
August 27, 2020
Caleb Brewster and the Culper Spy Ring
August 26, 2020
Steam tugboat J. W. Coultston, ca.1890s
The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream
August 25, 2020
The Amistad
August 24, 2020
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Trinity College – Scholarship and Community Engagement
August 23, 2020
Portland Passenger Bridge, ca. 1906
The Longest Highway Drawbridge – Who Knew?
August 22, 2020
Pier at Savin Rock, West Haven, 1905
Savin Rock Park: “Connecticut’s Coney Island”
August 21, 2020
Detail of an advertisement for Connecticut Pies, 1913
The Pie Man from Georgetown and the Connecticut ~ Copperthite Pie Company
August 20, 2020
United States Army dirigible with crowd of onlookers
Airborne Pioneers: Connecticut Takes Flight
August 19, 2020
Torrington Recovers after the Flood of ‘55
August 18, 2020
Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death: 1816, The Year Without a Summer
August 17, 2020
Frame for Indian round house
Living Rituals: Mohegan Wigwam Festival
August 16, 2020
Work on foundation of the Bulkeley Bridge
The Sand Hogs Set the Foundation for the Bulkeley Bridge
August 15, 2020
Connecticut History Day 2021: Communication in History
August 14, 2020
Collision on the Housatonic Railroad near Bridgeport
Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865
August 14, 2020
Discovery of mastodon bones on the farm of Ms. Theodate Riddle
Mastodon Bones Unearthed – Today in History: August 13
August 13, 2020
Flood damage to railroad tracks, Derby, 1955
Hurricanes Connie & Diane Deliver Double Hit – Who Knew?
August 12, 2020
Intertwining Family Businesses
August 11, 2020
Contagious Ward, Greenwich General Hospital, 1916
Health Department Fights Unseen Enemies During World War I
August 10, 2020
The Stonington Battle Flag
The Stonington Battle Flag
August 10, 2020
The Entrance to Pope Park
Pope Park – Yesterday and Today
August 9, 2020
Detail from a New York Times article August 11, 1886
The Shoe Box Murder Mystery
August 8, 2020

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