By Emily Clark Like its sister states in New England, Connecticut is known for its many writers: the humorous essayists, the historical novelists, and the prize-winning journalists. Though not as…
Read…in 1938. Petry’s Writing Career Cover of mass paperback The Street by Ann Petry, set in Harlem – Wikimedia Commons After moving to Harlem, Petry began to write for local…
Read…was remade,” Merry writes. “And its remaking illuminates their careers, just as their careers illuminate the American Century.” Later Writings Late in his career, Alsop wrote for the Washington Post…
Read…New York, New Canaan, Connecticut, and Southampton, Long Island. His financial position allowed him the freedom to write without the worry of supporting himself. He was already writing stories by…
Read…introduced and failed multiple times, Coe introduced a new bill (House Bill 429: An Act Concerning Jury Service for Women) in an attempt to convince legislators that it should be…
Read…truly national economy, made possible by cheap and reliable rail transportation. First horse car in Hartford, ca. 1895 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online As cities grew in…
Read…of the turnpike roads that made stage service faster and more reliable. The establishment of numerous local post offices and the expansion of postal service throughout the new nation between…
Read…its publication‚ the Clemenses’ elaborate 25-room house on Farmington Avenue‚ which had cost the then-huge sum of $40‚000-$45‚000‚ was completed. Twain Writes his Most Famous Books While Living in Hartford…
Read…travel writer, Warner became co-author, with Mark Twain, of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today published in 1873. The anecdote behind the writing of the only novel Twain co-authored…
Read…is revealed in the way writers and others use language. Using the changing demographics of teachers as an example, they wrote, “Until a few years ago most publications, writers, and…
Read…Threatens Electrical Service” and characterized the Governor’s tree-trimming plans as a “War on Trees.” “Mark my word,” warned Governor Dannel Malloy, “when we start to do that… there are going…
Read…and never losing her passion for drawing. “When I am writing, I like writing best, and when I am drawing, I like drawing best,” she once said. “But probably what…
Read…relations on the mainland. Indentured Service and Indian Resistance On his return to Fishers Island early in his second year of service, however, he encountered a man-of-war sloop entering Long…
Read…produced much of his poetry, writing some of his best poems during the 12 years he spent at Greenfield Hill. Among the better-known works are The Conquest of Canaan and…
Read…father, as Moore did, and were formally recognized for their own service during a time when such employment for women was quite uncommon. Kate Moore’s Dedicated Service to Her Country…
Read…and peace.” The statement ended with the Declaration of Independence. Survival Programs Throughout its brief existence in Connecticut (1969–1972), the Black Panther Party prioritized community service. This was not service…
Read…its appreciation for the servicemen and women of the Great War in numerous and profound ways. Hartford Commemorates the First World War Hartford Honor Roll in City Hall – Dudley…
Read…His essays discussed English practices at length and he was careful to build his theories upon proven research before launching into recommendations. Five Forward-thinking Recommendations In his essays Jared Eliot…
Read…1760 paper “Essay on Tree Planting,” mentioned New Haven’s trees, writing, “I observed in New Haven they have planted a range of trees all around the market place and secured…
Read…with a pump-maker. The owner no longer had to house or feed the children, while in return he would soon receive the services of a skilled craftsman. The pump-maker offered…
Read…notable. In this context, tavern signs served simply to inform strangers of available services. David Loomis’s Inn simple panel sign, Westchester, 1811 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online…
Read…some as sporting Connecticut’s best examples of “roadside architecture,” the road features an offbeat blend of vintage and contemporary gas stations, diners, miniature golf courses, motels, and bowling alleys, in…
Read…writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, and the work of his brother John in the abolitionist movement, Frederick became an outspoken leader for the antislavery cause in Litchfield County….
Read…invited school chum and writer Charles Dudley Warner to Hartford to write for the Press and later the Courant. Warner had another connection to Nook Farm: his brother George had…
Read…would peak at 30 by the end of the century. Busier crossings now utilized two boats, one stationed on either shore, and offered scheduled service as opposed to service on…
Read…begin service. Ferry Service Begins The town of Stratford leased to Wheeler approximately 40 acres of land to construct a wharf, create a walkway, and keep all elements in good…
Read…Connecticut’s State Employment Service was followed by a position as Assistant Director of Research for the War Manpower Commission in Hartford. She remained in state service until 1946 when she…
Read…a service for the elite to one available to the average citizen. The Hartford-to-Somers route eventually expanded to link a number of major cities in the Northeast. In the process…
Read…all begun writing poetry by the early 1770s and it was Trumbull who initially gave voice to the themes that defined the group, first in “An Essay on the Use…
ReadBy Christopher Dobbs Noah Webster Jr. is best remembered as the author of the dictionary most often called, simply, “Webster’s,” but whose original 1828 title was An American Dictionary of…
Read…in family and society. Writing-arm chair attributed to Ebenezer Tracy, ca. 1775 – Connecticut Historical Society The second half of the 18th century saw a growing interest in gentility as…
Read…of the best native oyster ground, and furnish the best oysters in the country … Fair Haven, Ct. Broadsides M 188- R878g — Connecticut Historical Society Early Oystering Leads to…
Read…and ended up working at the Chautauquan as a writer and editor for six years. IdaTarbell, ca. 1904 – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Writing became Tarbell’s passion….
Read…up the charts at local booksellers. In November 1948, Sandburg’s Remembrance Rock was on the fiction best-seller list of Hartford’s eight bookstores. By the 1950s Sandburg no longer toured the…
Read…and write under her tutelage but also allowed Gwen to eventually graduate from Hartford Public High School. After a brief period of studying law at Hartford Federal College, she married…
Read…items from leather) before establishing himself as a political icon of the American Revolution. He spent the last 30 years of his life devoted to public service, often simultaneously holding…
Read…Army Air Service made him a household name across the country. His fiery death on May 19, 1918, in the skies over France was a major story and a loss…
Read…which provided similar services. In 1947, Dr. Alfred Gross founded the George H. Henry Foundation, named after the early sex researcher. The Henry Foundation was a social service group that…
Read…Services at the Pentagon and attained the rank of colonel in 1968. In 1970, Lucas retired from the air force with eight medals and awards for her service. After her…
Read…ship’s carpenter for the duration of its service. The Confederacy Enters the American Revolution The Confederacy set sail on its inaugural cruise on May 1, 1779, taking the first of…
Read…writing machine.” The machine worked on the principle of a revolving type wheel that reduced the number of moving parts from 2,500 to 250, improving reliability and reducing the weight…
Read…a doctor, Mabel Osgood Wright made a name for herself as both a writer and a photographer. Writer, Photographer, and Founder of Connecticut Audubon Society Mabel Osgood was born in…
Read…eventually became a minuteman in the Massachusetts militia in 1776. During this time, Haynes continued writing sermons. Once his military career was over, he conducted services at his local town…
Read…is the author of A Useful Friend, winner of the 2008 Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award for the best work on Connecticut history, and writes and speaks on colonial Connecticut….
Read…write things out for his mother’s grocery list. Scarry grew up to create and illustrate some of the most beloved characters and communities in children’s literature—from Lowly Worm to Busytown….
Read…from which the Germans readily retreated. By August 19th, 833 German prisoners were in the hands of the 28th. It was because of this success that the Germans bestowed upon…
Read…into service to fight for the Union’s cause in the Civil War. Almost a year earlier, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln had issued an executive order, the Emancipation…
Read…developments: Connecticut’s industrial economy grew with the country’s westward expansion, and its state park and forest program emerged alongside the US Forest Service and the National Park Service. But with…
Read…cold, the fire, the smoke. When their water soaked clothing froze they would go home, change and return for more. Greenwich Avenue Fire, February 22, 1936 -Greenwich Historical Society The…
Read…voice means amongst themselves. Amateur Operators Important Today Amateur radio operators, organized by the league, not only provide daily message handling services for the public, military personnel, and service and…
Read…selling 10,000 copies in a week and more than 300,000 copies in the United States in its first year, despite being widely banned in the South. It became the best-selling…
Read…Feldspar Mill, Higganum – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Versatile Feldspar For centuries pegmatite was chiefly valued for its mineral feldspar. Feldspar mining peaked in Connecticut in the…
Read…ventured into the South and Midwest where she and writer Erskine Caldwell photographed the devastation of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression through the lives of sharecroppers and tenant…
Readby Brian Stevens – Connecticut Archives Online, Western Connecticut State University The Who and What: You could probably guess what archives might be, but think you have never seen one,…
Read…mark, and the diameter of the hole in their stems. (Essentially, as tobacco became cheaper, the bowls became larger and the stems became longer to allow the smoke to cool.)…
Read…the same subjects as boys. These subjects included such intellectual staples as geography and history. Pierce even went so far as to write her own histories when she could not…
Read…than 70,000 copies sold in its first year, it remained the best selling of Twain’s books throughout his lifetime. A quarter century after Twain’s tour, William and Ellen Slater of…
ReadBy Amy Gagnon Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a noted writer, lecturer, economist, and theorist who fought for women’s domestic rights and women’s suffrage in the early 1900s. Born in Hartford…
Read…Names a Connectican to Lead the Union Navy USS Albatross was just one of scores of Connecticut-built vessels that saw service in the Civil War. She had been among the…
Read…radio’s best shows. It remains popular today and can often be heard regularly on shows dedicated to old-time radio as well as online. Thanks to the show, it can always…
Read…Center, Hartford Public Library and Connecticut History Online Maria C. Sanchez by Tanisha Pino Maria opened up her News Stand, “Marias News Stand,” in the late 1950s. She used this…
Read…Connecticut, and the couple remained married until 1976. Jane even assisted in the research and writing of Spock’s 1946 breakthrough book. Dr. Spock holding baby, April 19, 1977. © John…
ReadFather and son George and Tracy Lewis not only founded a business together, they also had a hand in more than doubling the population of Beacon Falls. As their Beacon…
Read…Boeing-720 inaugurated Bradley’s passenger jetliner service in early 1961 – Connecticut Historical Society The introduction of scheduled jetliner service at Bradley dates to 1961 when United Airlines inaugurated service with…
Read…one of the first women to volunteer her services as a nurse and one of the first women to receive a pension from the Federal government for her service. Her…
Readby Patrick J. Mahoney Israel Putnam is perhaps known best for his role as an American general during the Revolutionary War. The courage, leadership, and perseverance that endeared him to…
Read…public service on both the state and national levels. One of his first positions was in the Glastonbury Tax Office. He participated in the State Legislature from 1827 to 1835…
Read…the church’s support and that every resident was required to attend day-long worship services at a meetinghouse on Sunday. Congregationalists were organized into self-governing churches, independent of any other religious…
Read…Bucks Hill Union Chapel and then went down in a buggy to pick up a preacher to preside over services. Children attended a two-room schoolhouse until the middle of the…
Read…Born in Simsbury in 1865 and educated at Yale University in New Haven, Pinchot was the first chief of the US Forest Service, a founder of the Yale School of…
Read…plant was approved for commercial lighting (homes and businesses), with service beginning on August 1, 1898. As with street lighting, a flat rate system for service was initially used, but…
Read…of the Florence Griswold Museum and first appeared on their website as a scholar’s essay in their On-Line Learning section. Author Hildegard Cummings is an independent art historian and curator….
Read…Connecticut History Online A number of state physicians, including Eli Todd, MD, had led the effort to convince political and community leaders of the need for a facility reflective of…
Read…his own church, Edwards went on to write A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746), in which he delineated the negative and positive “signs” of true vs. counterfeit religion. Prayer, in…
Read…Lexington, April 19th. 1775, printer’s ink and watercolor on laid paper – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Amos Doolittle of New Haven (1754-1832) was another such mapmaker. He…
Read…and the storekeeper, farmer, mechanic, etc. rush from their useful employment into the grand speculation.” Another writer exclaimed: “the product increases too fast – we grow rich too rapidly.” Cocoonery,…
Read…only 2,206 were men between the ages of 15 and 50 (the most likely ages for service). Seventy-eight percent of eligible black men enrolled in the 29th and 30th regiments….
Read…a man’s province,” she said. Upon learning that the 20-year-old was studying to be a pilot, the editor agreed to hire Jenson to write about aviation after she obtained her…
Read…writer and public speaker) and then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1839. After graduation, Deming moved to New York where he took more of an interest in writing and…
Read…article in the New York Times offers another view. The author, Harold Van Santvoord of Kinderhook, New York, was writing about whether “Sleepy Hollow” was really in Tarrytown or Kinderhook,…
Read…also studied writing with Clifford Odets, a playwright who rose to fame in the 1930s. Peterson took his first serious stab at writing by adapting Carson McCuller’s novel The Member…
Read…Farm neighborhood, which was also home to writer Mark Twain. Over the course of her writing career, Stowe published more than 30 books–from children’s textbooks, to advice books on childrearing…
Read…the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the University of Hawaii. Award-Winning Works A writer at heart, Wilder’s breakthrough novel came in 1927 with the publication of The Bridge of San…
Read…in administration and criminology. That training prompted his service as a security and intelligence officer for the United States Government during the Second World War. After the war, he worked…
Read…Companion to the Joshua Hempstead Diary, 1711-1758, winner of the 2008 Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award for the best work on Connecticut history, and writes and speaks on colonial Connecticut….
Read…1950s, this publishing-printing-distributing organization filled a seven-and-a-half-acre property and was home to some of the most accomplished artists and writers in the comic book industry. John Santangelo and the Printing…
Read…country. These refugees went about setting up new ethnic communities across the globe. In 1925, two Russian writers, Count Ilya Tolstoy (son of author Leo Tolstoy) and George Grebenstchikoff founded…
Read…Jersey, Rentschler was an astute businessman and visionary. Rentschler believed that the future of aviation lay in aircraft capable of carrying a large number of passengers great distances at ever-faster…
ReadRoger Griswold was a lawyer, judge, and politician who spent the better part of his life in service to Connecticut. The son of a Connecticut governor, Griswold, himself, served as…
Read…sharing Connecticut history with state residents is best exemplified by The Connecticut Experience, a 19-part history series for public television which received numerous awards, including four regional Emmys. Under his…
Read…on Stage Gillette continued to work in American theater, eventually crossing the Atlantic to appear in London in 1897, where his play Secret Service was both a critical and commercial…
Read…militia company: 34. Willimantic: Willimantic Armory PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE The National Park Service: The Park Service Administers 61 Miles of Trail In Connecticut, and one historic site in…
Read…around the state, religious observances also marked the year’s end. Write-ups before and after the holiday recounted in some detail the variety of Christian services held (but made no note…
Read…16, 1864, from disease during active service. Note the witness signature of Lieutenant George Metcalf, who also died, at the Battle of Proctor’s Creek – Connecticut Historical Society The First…
Read…charter in 1691 revitalized postal service throughout the English colonies in North America along a route that extended from Baltimore to Portsmouth, Maine. As part of this extended service, the…
Read…Connecticut politician during the mid-1800s. His federal service was preceded by several terms in the Connecticut General Assembly. Eaton’s most notable contribution to the history of Connecticut was the important…
Read…and all the passenger and administrative facilities needed to operate the small airport. The terminal opened in 1952, with regional air service provided by Eastern, United, Northeast, and American airlines….
Read…honored by the United Nations, the State of Israel, the American Foreign Service Association, and has had a commemorative stamp issued of his likeness by the United States Postal Service….
Read…the regiment won many important battles and became one of the first Union regiments to march through the Confederate capital of Richmond. With its respectable service, the 29th Connecticut demonstrated…
Read…and Distinguished Service Medals to 10 citizens. One was 14-year-old Donald Anderson of Columbia whose quick actions and bravery saved countless lives at the Hartford Circus Fire of the previous…
Read…in the West Indies, Douglas sacrificed most of his fortune, as well as his health, in service to his country. West Indies Trade Brings Prosperity Born in Plainfield, Connecticut, on…
Read…in command of the USS Supply, Colvocoresses was joined in the service by his son, George Patridge, named for the family’s American benefactor. Following the war, the elder Colvocoresses was…
Read…were also charitable and service organizations. As the Jewish community took root, its members encouraged family and friends to join them. By the early 1880s, the population of Hartford stood…
Read…than before. United States Public health service flyer, 1918 – Library of Congress, American Memory Sickness Spreads to the States The East Coast ports provided the means of entry and…
Read…death in 1938. The Auerbach Years Beatrice Fox Auerbach with Moses Fox Club cake and chefs, 1958 – Connecticut Historical Society Auerbach’s passion for service and love for the city…
Read…those homes with lesser incomes searched for cheaper alternatives. Two fuel sources thus emerged in the 1840s: burning fluids and lard oil. Lard oil lamps became popular after overcoming the…
Read…the stove in their keeping room. She informed Samuel that the item would be cheaper at Abernathy’s or Chafee’s than at Catlin’s or Olmsted’s and that it should be lighter…
Read…New England colonies, bringing about an unprecedented boom in profits, and the need for a cheap, sustainable labor force. Portrait of Samuel Slater from the book Samuel Slater and the…
Read…among the living historians of America.” Between 1888 and 1937, he was the author of more than one hundred books, articles, essays, and published addresses and estimated that, in addition,…
Read…and other apparel due to cheaper imports, growing usage of plastic tags for clothing, and increased usage of paper clips and staples for fastening paper. Safety pin production was hampered…
Read…that Jupiter Hammon, who endured life-long enslavement became the first African American writer to be published in America when his 88-line poem, “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential…
Read…Havana Seed, made the best binders. These varieties prospered when grown outside, with full exposure to the sun. In the late 1800s, however, a fine-grained tobacco from Sumatra began replacing…
Read…services and informative articles that coherently described the nature of housing biases and corrupt practices. The bilingual name of the group reflected its educational mission and also its vision of…
Read…colonies made their living printing proclamations, sermons, broadsides, and newspapers as well as by selling writing supplies, stationary, and imported books. Larger and lengthier works could be produced far more…
Read…colonies made their living printing proclamations, sermons, broadsides, and newspapers as well as by selling writing supplies, stationary, and imported books. Larger and lengthier works could be produced far more…
Read…right) are much larger in scale than the homes surrounding them. Rockville, Connecticut, Boston: O.H. Bailey & Co., 1895 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Although these prints…
Read…Derby owned. One of Pero and Hagar’s sons, Tobiah (Bassett’s grandfather), was sold to John Wooster of Oxford; Tobiah won his freedom through his service in the American Revolution. Tobiah…
Read…producing 10,000 bicycles a year from the Capitol Avenue plant in Hartford, which he now owned. The Columbia Cycle Club, Hartford, 1890 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online…
Read…Writers School, in 1970. She revealed hucksterish sales tactics and the misleading pitch that famous figureheads evaluated student work. Detail from Famous Artists Cartoon Course, Lesson 1, “The Comic Head,”…
Read…Franklin, already fast friends, worked closely together, leaving Lee, who already disliked both of his colleagues, bitterly resentful. Lee covertly began undermining their efforts, writing letters to allies in Congress…
Read…of the quarry works dock from the early 1900s, Portland – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Demand Peaks During Brownstone Era Brownstone quarrying shaped the evolution of the…
Read…crops and keep their farms in operation. Under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Agriculture and the Extension Service, the Emergency Farm Labor Program often relied on convicts, POWs,…
Read…Online In January of 1862, Connecticut’s Governor William A. Buckingham appointed his son-in-law, William Aiken, quartermaster general for the state. In the summer of 1862 it became Aiken’s job to…
Read…with stucco, it was designed in a Tuscan Italian Villa style. Although it is most recently a bed and breakfast, the home served many purposes since its construction in the…
Read…learned basic reading and writing in Wheelock’s home. Sundays they spent in church, sitting behind white women while absorbing Calvinist scripture. Johnson’s educators attempted to teach her that her old…
Readby Karen DePauw Before the age of the computer, typewriters fulfilled our need to write faster than our pens allowed. The gentle click of keys on a keyboard are no…
Read…widely held belief that anyone who could learn how to write with pen or pencil could learn how to draw. The connection between writing and drawing was based simply on…
Read…the Federal Home Loan Bank’s (FHLB) underwriting criteria and to provide a detailed guide for mortgage loan investment decisions being made by the newly regulated financial institutions engaged in home…
Read…of the Colonial Revival, a spinning wheel positioned in front of the fireplace. Artists and writers working in Connecticut helped bring such idealized images of early American life to a…
Read…honors in its decades on the air. For example, Connecticut Magazine once named WPKN the best radio station for music in the state of Connecticut. More recently, The New Yorker…
Read…of the natural sciences was then called–and other topics of interest to a budding inventor. Yale’s fine library included standard 18th-century scientific texts, so Bushnell had access to the best…
Read…William E.Boeing, left and Frederick B Rentschler inspecting a Wasp “A” engine in 1927 – Pratt & Whitney Rentschler, a former Navy lieutenant convinced that “the best airplane could only…
Read…years, which left him little time for writing or for his family. In 1887 Beecher eventually accepted an offer to write an autobiography. Unfortunately, before work could begin in earnest,…
Read…an educator, reformer, and writer. The eldest child of the renowned Beecher clan, Catharine was born in East Hampton, New York, in 1800. When she was 10, her family moved…
Read…of America’s most trusted news writers and war correspondents. In addition, she worked diligently to bring relief to children and families in need during World War II and returned to…
Read…dark moments in his childhood such as his poor health, the death of his best friend in a car accident, and his struggle with losing a portion of his extended…
Read…inventing the process for cold rolling steel. Line drawing of Stanley Works, New Britain, ca. 1879 – Hartford Public Library, Hartford History Center, Hartford Time Collection and Connecticut History Online…
Read…prim behaviors. Reverend Noah Welles penned a booklet satirizing existing laws which guarded against behavior such as gambling and drinking, traveling on Sunday, and missing religious services. Over time, the…
Read…later. The canal opened in November of 1829 to great fanfare. The opening ceremonies included a demonstration of the first steamboats built for service on the river north of Hartford….
Read…the best-known African American journalists in the United States beginning in the 1970s and won several awards over his long career. He did most of his work for Newsday, the…
Read…Though this Black man attended the family as a servant for years, he also became a faithful companion and confidant to Twain—who Griffin knew best by his birth name of…
Read…Beecher Stowe. Twain lived in his home on Nook Farm for almost twenty years. He did some of his best writing there, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures…
ReadBy Holly V. Izard David Humphreys was a Yale-educated soldier, politician, foreign minister, and entrepreneur. Though noted by literary historians for his poetry and writings as a member of the…
Read…including her niece Ann Lane, Peter and Bertha’s daughter, who worked in the store and later gained fame as Ann Petry (1908-1997), author of the important best seller The Street….
Read…Face Storm with Humor and Heroism While the storm caught people by surprise, many tried to make the best of it. Humor and good nature often prevailed as the state…
Read…with their train. As the train was slowly backing its way toward Bridgeport, around a curve came a fast moving locomotive “running light,” that is, without a train in tow….
Read…season begins in May with weeding and transplanting seedlings in long rows. As the plants grow they are fastened to guide wires, and then cloth tents are spread over them…
Read…the building of ever larger, more powerful and luxurious coastal and passenger steamers. In 1852 the splendid new City of Hartford entered service and for three decades reigned as one…
Read…a Native arts’ specialist under René d’Harnoncourt. Her duties included the supervision, teaching, exhibition, and sale of Native American artifacts from Montana to California. Gladys finally concluded her Government service…
Read…history through his historical writing and hundreds of engravings—many of which still exist today. Early Life in East Windsor John Warner Barber – The New York Public Library John Warner…
Read…the week she spent in Hartford was one of the best in her life. In 1922 Sophie toured England with Ted Shapiro, her new pianist. The duo worked well and…
Read…during World War I and pursued various jobs in civil service and business. In 1921, Nason’s intellectual curiosity turned him toward art, which would become his lifelong career. He taught…
Read…and seaborne commerce of all types, fell upon extremely hard times,” writes Navy Lieutenant Commander Douglas S. Jordan in his article “Stephen Decatur at New London: A Study in Strategic…
Read…Watson’s untitled photographs published in Touchstone – Wikimedia Commons While Watson originally earned fame for her landscape photography, her talent is best displayed in the portraits she created, primarily in…
Read…of baseball’s all-time superstars, notably Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and the young Jackie Robinson. Here again, Connecticut offered its best and brightest to baseball. Johnny “Schoolboy” Taylor was a 1933…
Read…was part. Carolyn Ivanoff, a housemaster at Shelton Intermediate School, writes and lectures frequently about American history and was the primary writer of Ebenezer Bassett’s Historic Journey for the 2011/2012…
Read…Broadway theaters were darkened in mourning and respect. Recognized for his contribution to the development of the American theater in the 20th century, Miller is best known for his play…
Read…his efforts, Murphy received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Kazan also received a nomination for, and won, a Best Director Academy Award that year, though it was…
Read…and member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in the early 1900s. Princeton and Yale bestowed honorary degrees upon him and his paintings now hang in institutions such as…
ReadBy Emily Dunnack for Your Public Media July 22nd is the birthday of Alexander Calder, one of the best-known and most prolific sculptors of the 20th century. His work hangs…
Read…Dropo posted a .322 batting average, slugged 34 homers, drove in a major-league-best 144 runs, and led the American League (AL) with 326 total bases. His home run total was…
Read…still considered one of the best in all of sports and can be seen on tee-shirts, lawn flags, and bumper stickers around Connecticut to this day. The World Hockey Association…
Read…middle of their day-long service held at a special “eating house.” Their clergy didn’t need to be trained. Their practices earned them the derisive nickname of “Kissites.” They were the…
Read…note that “any person by writing, or speaking, or by any overt act, shall libel or defame any of the resolves of the Honorable Congress of the United Colonies, or…
Read…south and established a church of his own. The Founding of “Milford Church” First Meeting House in Milford – History of Milford, Connecticut, 1639-1939 by the Federal Writer’s Project for…
Read…church and required all black members of the congregation to sit there during services. James and Sarah Easton refused. The family continued to sit on the main floor of the…
ReadBy Sharon L. Cohen During World War II, the US military bestowed the top five percent of United States war plants with the Army-Navy Excellence in Production (“E”) Award for…
Read…soldiers – Hartford Courant Mary Townsend Seymour is perhaps best known for her integral involvement founding the Hartford chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.)—an…
Read…undergoing renovation and being considered by the National Park Service for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Porcelain enamel had been used beginning in the late 1920s for…
Read…the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor commemorates those who died in service during World War II. Evelyn Beatrice Longman, who moved to Windsor at the height of her career, designed…
Read…professionals believed the best solution was to separate tuberculosis patients and offer them bed rest and proper nutrition in places that seemed like large country homes. There were four such…
Read…Revenge, also a sloop, 19. Shaw’s success attracted partners. Benedict Arnold, in fact, wrote to Shaw asking to be included as an eighth- or sixteenth- part owner of a Shaw…
Read…but inspiring final American acts, Yung and the Mission reflect the worst and best of the Chinese Exclusion Act era. Yung Wing, Hartford, ca. 1900 – Connecticut Historical Society Experiences…
Read…pay him for his services, but that was not always the case. “Sometimes not all the cops pay for their shine,” he once told a reporter. Shoe-Shining Survival: A Public…
Read…beliefs were more accepted. Joseph was greatly influenced by his father and he quickly developed an interest in public service. After attending law school at Hamilton College in New York,…
Read…in History of the Twenty-ninth (Colored) Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; In Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of…
Read…evolving to meet the changing demands of its constituency. Its history details the services and experiences valued by recreation seekers in Connecticut over the past century. Boulder Cove, Lake Quassapaug,…
Read…that would be used “For Art, Service and Industry, in the Service of the People of Danbury.” Documents depicting Anna Hyatt Huntington and the Dedication of Huntington Hall – Danbury…
Read…a thousand miles to see.” More Than Just a Lighthouse Though the lighthouse ended its navigational service in early 1902 (replaced by the nearby Green Ledge Light), the island and…
Read…undeniable historic significance, and grants Bachelor of Science degrees. Additionally, it is the only branch of the United States armed services that operates under the Department of Homeland Security (rather…
Read…commonplace, airlines used seaplanes to provide air mail service to warm-water ports, where the water became the runway. Innovation Takes Root in Connecticut With more orders for his “flying boats”…
Read…Medal of the American Medical Association, the Order of the Royal Crown of Germany, the US Army Distinguished Service Medal, and the Harben Plaque for Public Health Service. Today, the…
Read…used during the Civil War. Conditions along the lines were deplorable. The Hartford Courant said it best in its issue of September 22, 1902, when it noted that “veterans who…
Read…as “the best of its kind to be found anywhere.” Following her husband’s death in 1925, she continued to provide financial support for the park, and she left the Bristol…
Read…out his service, Lynch opened his own metalworking shop in Manhattan and then moved to Long Island City, before, in 1938, relocating to Wilton, Connecticut. Having recently completed renovations on…
Read…technology. In 1915, Wethersfield purchased a motorized Republic pumper with a gasoline engine and solid rubber tires. In addition, the expansion of telephone service and the introduction of short-wave radios…
Read…The town taxes were for services not provided by the borough (e.g., education). In June of 1801, in accordance with the act, they elected a warden, six burgesses, a clerk,…
Read…fishing and kayaking. Conservation efforts to gain federal protection for the area started with a joint venture undertaken by the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service, the US Fish &…
Read…Colonel. The 7th consisted of 1,018 men and was mustered into service on September 7, 1861. The regiment was ordered south and became part of the expedition against southern coastal…
Read…men endured. Andersonville Military Prison Boy replica at the state capitol in Hartford, CT – Courtesy of Stacey Renee Conditions at Andersonville Prison According to the National Park Service brochure…
Read…in need while also constructing a comprehensive history of Franklin. After his death, Woodward’s service carried on through the use of his home as a museum and repository for the…
Read…were exempt from the poll tax during their period of service and after ten years of service were exempt from payment altogether. For a long time both the poll and…
Read…Canty House, Hartford – National Register of Historic Places Chapter, B’nai B’rith, for outstanding civic service, 1960; the Hartford Neighborhood Centers Certificate of Appreciation, 1965; the Humanitarian Award, Hartford Section…
Read…military valor? Ferriday’s French Connection Photo taken in France of Caroline Ferriday, from the cover of Jacqueline Péry d’Alincourt’s reminiscence of Ferriday given at Ferriday’s 1990 memorial service in Bethlehem…
ReadBorn into a destitute family, William Edgar Simonds originally set his sights on a career as a school teacher. Service to his country during the Civil War, however, changed all…
Read…the architectural styles of the past. While presenting an essay written in celebration of Connecticut’s 300th Anniversary in 1933, Kelly lamented the architectural links with the state’s past already needlessly…
Read…large number of foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Chaldaic, Samarian, Ethiopic, and several Asian languages. He became a popular and influential author and lecturer, writing and speaking…
Read…he championed. Parents and alumni also met to support the cause, and the University of Hartford’s student newspaper, UH News/Liberated Press, followed the story, published Manselle’s essays, and even listed…
Read…chairs alongside cabinets, tables, and candle holders. John Warner Barber, West view of Hitchcocksville in Barkhamsted, ca. 1836, pen and ink – Connecticut Historical Society, and Connecticut History Online Chair-making…
Read…residents and was the fastest growing immigrant group in the city. Known in particular for their skill in manufacturing furniture, Hartford Germans played a significant role in the city’s domestic,…
Read…a cheap source of vitamin C, many of the onions sent to the Caribbean fed enslaved people, providing food in an area that was otherwise filled with sugar crops. In…
Read…women is so cheap! And property is so sacred! Too much blood has been spilled. I know from experience it is up to working people to save themselves. And the…
Read…order to spur the local economy. This required expanding Brainard’s facilities and replacing the grass airstrip runways with blacktop pavement. Looking for cheap sources of labor for the project, officials…
Read…home at age 11 after his father’s death forced him to seek a trade to earn his keep. He tried farming and carpentry before finding the work he loved best:…
Read…feet. Customers complained about the high price of the gas, its smell, and service availability. Nonetheless, the arrival of these firms signaled a proliferation of manufactured gas firms throughout the…
Read…blast. The stacks’ construction required the expertise and supervision of an experienced iron master and a large number of workers. Since labor was cheap and manpower readily available, construction of…
Read…began shying away from the death penalty and started constructing more prisons. Bird’s-eye view of Wethersfield Prison, Wethersfield, ca. 1880 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In 1846,…
Read…maps will be added to eMuseum, the CHS online museum catalog, and to Connecticut History Illustrated, a collaborative online digital library of primary and secondary resources relating to Connecticut History….
Read…170 people and produced standard and special cold-headed fasteners. Similarly, Elco also produced fasteners and tools for use in the construction industry. Elco remained in the building until 1977. In…
Read…before moving to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1755 and returning to the pulpit. While in Newport he became pastor of the Second Congregational Church and went on to write a…
Read…Connecticut “Preserve the Sound” License plates. John Warner Barber, Saybrook Point, 1834, drawing – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online The completion of the Connecticut Valley Railroad in May…
Read…carriages, and two daring young men came by air to help commemorate the special occasion. Connecticut River highway bridge (Saybrook-Old Lyme) – Mystic Seaport and Connecticut History Online For people…
Read…the Grapes, 1822 – Connecticut Historical Society, Collection of Morgan B. Brainard and Connecticut History Online Although native grapes grew in abundance, early hopes of mass winegrowing disappeared partly because…
Read…Charles Slack writes that the manager of the Roxbury India Rubber Company then led Goodyear to a warehouse where, “he pointed at rows of shelves containing heaps of misshapen blobs,…
Read…In 1864, an aging James Mars returned to Norfolk. By 1870, impoverished and increasingly frail, Mars determined to write his autobiography because “[s]ome told me that they did not know…
Read…Brigade walked to the Allyn House for a fundraising breakfast organized by local sponsors. They were greeted by 250 supporters, including a wide range of Hartford women: “colored sympathizers, women…
Read…were fast approaching. The farm hands hailed from Puerto Rico but were presently living at Camp Windsor, a local migrant workers’ barracks where seasonal laborers were required to stay. Postcard…
Read…the bank’s lawn. However, when it was erected 225 years ago, travelers, moving only as fast as their horse or feet could take them, almost certainly saw the engraved stone:…
Read…of abolitionists like Douglass, he freed them. Detail from a letter written by Frederick Douglass to the Boston Liberator from the Victoria Hotel, Belfast, Jan. 1, 1846 and reprinted in…
Read…at a local demonstration, Hartford, CT, September 28, 1967 – Photograph by George Grogan – Hartford Times Collection, Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library Word traveled fast through the north…
Read…the arrests spread fast, and that night Hartford experienced its first full-scale riot. When the Panthers started recruiting, Rap Bailey was among the first to join. Charles “Butch” Lewis, a…
Read…Black family in New York City. She took on dressmaking and millinery work while also helping to care for nine children. Brown felt trapped there—writing about longing to be with…
Read…charter amendment to permit the writing of life insurance. The expansion was a bold move given the stance of many religious leaders that assigning monetary value to one’s life was…
Read…23 years her senior. After six turbulent years of marriage and the birth of a daughter, the couple divorced in 1929. Following the divorce, Boothe pursued a career in writing,…
Read…Fairfield Gazette, February 25, 1789 – Genealogy Bank In winter 1789, Caleb Brewster was busy writing. With the American Revolution over, he stopped sneaking hidden messages to the Continental troops…
Read…Railroad. In 1854, Reverend Jehiel Beman openly defied the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by writing in a public letter to Douglass, “The Underground Railroad…is in good repair, and our office…
Read…decade that followed witnessed such pioneers as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony emerge as the face of a movement that furthered their cause through letter-writing campaigns, marches, and…
Read…1823 and, four years later, began collecting the papers of the nation’s founding fathers. His efforts led him to author numerous publications, including The Writings of George Washington, The Library…
Read…Talcott Mountain, all the while having philosophical discussions that inspired Clemens’ story writing and Twichell’s sermon writing. Like Clemens, Twichell was unafraid to voice his convictions. He used his position…
Read…governor, all of whom soared through the sky just overhead. Plainville’s Robertson Airport Robertson Airport in Plainville services small-engine commercial and private aircraft. Founded in 1911, it is Connecticut’s oldest…
Read…Public Library and Connecticut History Online A 20th-century Facility With the November 1963 opening of the Connecticut Correctional Institution, the state transferred all prisoners from Wethersfield to Somers. The new…
Read…at his sister’s in Colchester. His condition may have stemmed from his four years’ Civil War service as a Private in Co. G, 1st CT Heavy Artillery. In addition to…
Read…unable to compete with larger automobile manufacturers with faster production lines. The American Hardware Corporation, operated by family members of founder and president, Philip Corbin, absorbed the former car company…
Read…the Mystic Pioneer, followed construction of the ironclad closely and favorably, reporting on the construction’s fast progress, the large number of people employed on the ship’s construction, and the advantage…
Read…an MA in history from the University of Connecticut Connecticut and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University; she has authored several books, including Medicine Trail: The Life and…
Read…Receipt-book, a cookbook that was meant to serve as a supplement to her Treatise. Catharine spent the following decades writing further on the topic of women: their health, their rights,…
Read…Workers of the World (the Wobblies), Goldman was writing and speaking on behalf of true liberation for women. On February 12, 1913, she spoke to the Hartford crowd on “Marriage…
Read…in history from the University of Connecticut Connecticut and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University; she has authored several books, including Medicine Trail: The Life and Lessons of…
Read…trademark attorney with the RC Trademark Company (RCTrademark.com), went digging through the patent record to find the truth. Leslie, a freelance writer in New London County, helped with the writing….
Read…in history from the University of Connecticut Connecticut and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University; she has authored several books, including Medicine Trail: The Life and Lessons of…
Read…roadway. Doe Boyle, a Connecticut Office of the Arts Master Teaching Artist of creative and expository writing, is an editor, a widely published freelance writer, and the author of 11…
Read…Section so that members could exchange ideas on how to best serve young readers and it was supporting professional training schools for children’s librarians. Hewins broadened her influence through her…
Read…for sharpening quill pens for writing, other types of folding pocketknives were still imported from Sheffield. Unknown workers in New England had been making pocketknives in small shops in the…
ReadOn May 8, 1920, American author Sloan Wilson was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. Readers know Wilson best for his 1955 book The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The novel,…
ReadHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Best remembered as the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into a talented Litchfield family headed by noted preacher…
Read…four daughters. One of these daughters, Louisa May Alcott, arrived on her father’s birthday in 1832 and grew up to be a best-selling author. Born into dire financial circumstance, Alcott…
Read…numbers swelled as a result of a rule exempting students from military service). Additionally, when the war ended, the return of students who chose to serve in the military gave…
Read…gates of Heaven had broken loose,” according to The Last Political Writings of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, a huge procession accompanied Lyon’s body from Union Station to the State House, where…
Read…to Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. A duplicate was made and added to the Wetmore house.) During the early days of the home, Wetmore welcomed notable writers, scholars, politicians,…
Read…build their dream homes. One of her most famous clients was Hamden writer Thornton Wilder. Built in 1929, his Colonial on Deepwood Drive has since been renovated, not unlike many…
Read…High School team. Smith took a job in 1925 as a baseball writer for the New York Graphic and worked for the New York Mirror from 1941 to 1963. He…
ReadSamson Occom (1723-1792) Samson Occom was a Native American minister, missionary, and writer whose influence helped promote more intimate ties between Native American and European culture. Born on a Mohegan…
Read…campaign” through Hartford’s streets, Emily Pierson and others addressed a lunchtime crowd of 400 Underwood Typewriter employees in front of the factory. As one writer noted: There is being born…
Read…a lighter perspective in their criticism of Graham. Ralph Waldo Emerson labeled him “the poet of bran and pumpkins” while a writer for a Northampton, Massachusetts newspaper called him “Dr….
Read…the Bushnell Memorial Hall. The University of Hartford sponsored the event. According to African American writer J. K. Obatala, the speech inspired him to travel to Ghana, his ancestral homeland….
Read…throughout the country. In the 1990s, Time Magazine named Pankhurst one of the “100 Most Important People of the 20th Century” and writer Marina Warner said that Pankhurst “shaped an…
ReadJohn Frederick Kensett was a landscape painter who is now identified with Luminism—a style of painting that utilized delicate, almost invisible brushstrokes to capture subtle effects of natural light. Best…
Read…must have felt optimistic, however. They announced that “the membership roll grows larger each meeting, and everything points favorably to Local 359 being one of the best in its kind…
Read…races and continued through Saturday night. Newspapers printed that Derby had come into its own as “the best place in the United States to view a race and second to…
Read…publisher Charles Scribner. Bostonian Sarah Wyman Whitman did most of her best work for Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Company. Though Hartford had ceased to be a major center for book…
Read…fueled speculation about his origins. The best-known story, and one that circulated in the press during his lifetime, is that he was Jules Bourglay, the disgraced suitor of the daughter…
ReadOn July 3, 1860, Charlotte Anna Perkins (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Gilman became a prolific writer whose subject matter ranged from the differences between women and…
Read…heart, but we simply had not time to think.” Honor Bestowed Though the war was nearing its end when Hovey and others endured this battle in July of 1918, her…
Read…welcomed artists, writers, cartoonists, and musicians, including such notables as Martha Graham and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. While an array of O’Neill’s art was eventually exhibited at galleries in Paris and…
Read…one of the best-known military men in the country at the time. According to Butler, the visitors came with ulterior motives and chose to meet with him because of his…
Read…Cook and wrote a best-selling journal about the navigator’s fatal third voyage. He trekked across Siberia and was arrested as a spy. And, living on the edge until the very…
Read…hidden under it took flight to the delight of many in attendance. While Piersall is best-known for his mental health struggles, he was a good enough ballplayer to play 17…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay for Your Pubic Media When setting the table for Thanksgiving dinner, you probably bring out your best china and glassware, perhaps including some pieces that have been…
Read…III. Born in 1875, this scion of two generations of New England missionaries to Hawaii accomplished much in his 81 years. He was an explorer, a best-selling author, an aeronautics…
Read…Food and Lodging Inconsistent at Best As for room and board, Sarah Knight was fortunate to spend one evening with the Congregationalist minister in New London, “where I was very…
Read…industrial cities and the green suburbs of Fairfield County have been the subject of much literature and Richard Yates’s 1961 Revolutionary Road is one of the best-known novels about the…
Read…Door (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940). She earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for three of those performances and won for…
Read…in any court. The State exercised its in loco parentis powers in committing each girl, and it subsidized their placements. The founders and directors thought that the best place for…
Read…was an integral part. In 1955, Borgnine appeared as the title character in Marty, the part and the movie for which he is best known. Unlike many of the previous…
Read…a cartoonist. Young is known best for the cartoons he designed from 1911 to 1917 for The Masses, a left-wing monthly magazine of which he was co-editor. Among his best…
Read…eyes from the sun’s light. Those wishing to get the best views of the corona (the rays of light surrounding the sun during a total eclipse) were advised to bandage…
ReadThe success of the clock- and watch-making industries in Connecticut came about in an era when the state was just beginning to realize its industrial potential. The availability of raw…
Read…surprise, they made the best of it. Humor and good nature often prevailed as the state dug its way out. People escaped snow-imposed imprisonment by crawling out of second-story windows…
Read…the freshman baseball and football teams, a testament to his athleticism. He later developed the “Daily Dozen,” a series of exercises for physical fitness used to train servicemen in World…
Read…the owner when the ship reached port. Slave hunting was a profitable business. The U.S. Constitution specifically required the return of escaped “persons held to service or labor.” The government…
Read…length and had what farmers call “dairy strength.” Ivanhoe was sold to the American Breeders Service as a young adult and was one of the first bulls to gain international…
Read…as a prominent educator and writer—of the late 18th century. Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1719, he graduated from Yale in 1735 and studied for a time under the famed…
Read…Haven Fire Department with having some of the best equipment found between New Haven and New London, the Chaffinch Island department ignored town borders to help extinguish fires all along…
Read…century, Shaker leader Mother Ann, her husband, and seven others left England for the Colonies. On a trip through New England, Mother Ann and her followers held services in Enfield,…
Read…national level. Barnard’s substantial career included service as the first secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, principal of the New Britain Normal School (the predecessor of Central Connecticut State…
Read…it is perhaps best remembered: ice cream. When Niedermeier passed away in 1949, his three sons took over the business and made some changes. As sales to retail and wholesale…
Read…Gillette—a famous actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. Gillette hired Osaki to work on his houseboat The Holy Terror and, a few years later, his newly…
Read…famous for carrying that secrecy into their post-graduation lives. The public best remembers Nathan Hale, a member of Linonian’s class of 1773, as a Connecticut hero—hanged by British troops in…
Read…some of his best-known and most-loved works. Early Life Born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1829, Rogers was the son of an unsuccessful Boston merchant. Rather than going into business himself,…
Read…the firm in 1871, returning to Hartford to join his brother’s seed and fertilizer business. In his place Toy sent his stepson James Bestor Merritt Jr. In 1876 Sarah Jennette…
Read…to attend church services, but only a small minority earned admittance to full church membership. These church members enjoyed considerable power and influence. They chose and ordained their own ministers…
Read…of weapons. Approximately 10% of the Connecticut men who served in the war died while in service, over 2,000 of them in battle. Almost 700 Connecticut soldiers died in Confederate…
ReadBy Gregg Mangan Benedict Arnold, despite the extraordinary efforts and sacrifices he made on behalf of American independence, is probably known best for being a traitor. In the middle of…
Read…had opposed the idea of political parties as inherently dangerous to the new American republic, because they would promote self-serving political behavior rather than disinterested public service. The very act…
Read…Model Springfield .58-caliber rifle muskets (“the best infantry arm in the world”) in the next 12 months; he also assessed how many rifles and revolvers they would need. Connecticut’s armories…
Read…were treated for heat exhaustion by Greenwich Emergency Medical Services (GEMS). Police regulated the traffic on the Post Road. The Cos Cob Ladies Auxiliary, Red Cross Disaster Service, and local…
Read…a woman’s right to vote, perhaps no fight garnered as much attention from the entire nation as Kellems’s highly publicized battles with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The only daughter…
Read…War Council and the establishment of a storm headquarters at the office of Hartford Mayor William H. Mortensen. Additionally, state officials activated the War Emergency Radio Service (the first time…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay New London’s first ferry was chartered in 1651 and crossed the Thames River from New London to Groton. This service evolved with the times, transporting everything from…
Read…crowded urban centers in search of better housing and better schools. The General Assembly was besieged with requests for additional support for schools, highways, and services. As the suburbs swelled,…
Read…his career in Connecticut working for the state’s Tuberculosis Commission to expand public health screenings and services. Hart was also one of the first people to undergo gender affirmation surgery…
Read…had done for years, groups dedicated to sustaining public remembrance of the Civil War organized and marched in parades, gave speeches, attended religious services, and gathered school children to help…
Read…River in the town of East Hampton (then known as Chatham) encountered great difficulties in crossing the river to attend church services and conduct business with their fellow citizens north…
Read…in New London on September 11, 1918. By October 25, the State Public Health Service reported 180,000 cases. It appears the outbreak, after originating in New London County, moved to…
Read…Locks. Grasso devoted her entire adult life to governmental service, initially as a state legislator in 1952 and in 1954, then serving as Connecticut’s secretary of state in 1958 for…
Read…Floyd Tallmadge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated the first Arbor Day of Roosevelt’s presidency by planting a tree on the Litchfield Green to commemorate the services…
Read…1944. Upon arriving in Lisbon, Portugal, Colepaugh jumped ship to offer his services to the German consulate there. The Germans sent Colepaugh to spy school in the Netherlands where he…
Read…Photograph of the steamer Margaret which serviced the Thimble Islands – Branford Historical Society Advertisement from New Haven’s Columbian Register, July 8, 1865, for the steamer “Alice E. Preston” excursions…
Read…opening to the public on February 27, 1943. In 1951, officials renamed it the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in honor of servicemen who gave their lives in World War I…
Read…such an instrument to services. Certainly, instrumental music could be used for ill, “enlivening the giddy throng.” Further, he emphasized, “The design of musick is to produce agreeable and lively…
Read…State University The Kalos Society was an offshoot of the group, Project H, which Canon Clinton Jones and others started in 1963 to provide educational and counseling services for gay…
Read…its services ineffective. To solve this problem, Congress funded a new structure—the current structure—that opened in 1801 with an octagonal, tapered tower of thick brick walls resting on a foundation…
Read…HOLD THE SERVICES AND MEMORY OF THIS DISTINGUISHED GRANDSON OF THE STATE. Sons of Veterans, USA Ulysses S. Grant presidential campaign badge made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury,…
ReadElias Perkins’s career in public service lasted nearly half a century and made him a popular figure both locally and nationally. His was a life that required seamless transitions from…
Read…railroad from Hartford to Old Saybrook. Built along the west bank of the Connecticut River, it competed with steamboat service by providing a quicker overland route to Long Island Sound…
ReadYouTube – USDA Forest Service A public television adaptation of Gary Hines’ one-man play about the first Chief of the Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot. This video incorporates historic photos and…
ReadThomas Knowlton is arguably Ashford’s most widely recognized war hero. His service during the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution are memorialized in a statue on the grounds of…
Read…for commercial glass containers in the mid-19th century. Westford Glass produced quart ink bottles, wine bottles, flasks from 1/2 pint to quart sizes, pint- and quart-size bottles for schnapps, handled…
Read…as assistant US commissioner of education and director of the Division of Higher Education during 1959-1961. He received the department’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1961 before he moved to become…
Read…into service and soon thereafter received as its commanders Colonel William B. Wooster of Derby, Lieutenant Colonel Henry C. Ward of Hartford, and Major David Torrance of Greenville (part of…
Read…buildings, inspection of weights and measures, adjustment of road disputes, administration of certain trust funds (such as cemetery trust funds), appropriation of funds for agricultural extension services, and fighting forest…
Read…World War under way, Barringer worked with numerous organizations that supplied medical care throughout Europe and led a campaign promoting the service of female physicians in the military—a campaign that…
Read…and Records Service Death and Legacy Seven years later, on December 19, 1857, Nancy died. Windsor’s death record lists her as an 82-year-old, single, colored female who was born at…
Read…The historic protection came because the National Park Service recognized the important role the Prospect Green played in serving the community for over 200 years. Soldiers’ Monument, Prospect – Art…
Read…developed a reputation for outstanding customer service, even starting a home delivery service by carrying goods to people’s homes using a series of wheelbarrows. When Isaac moved to New York…
Read…history of service as a part of the 103rd Airlift Wing (known as the “Flying Yankees”) and dates back to the earliest days of military flight. Established in Rhode Island…
Read…playing in the countryside. After over 40 years of service to the state, the park began to look its age and proved in desperate need of repair. A $3.8-million renovation…
Read…with 60 members and one piece of apparatus—a horse-drawn hand-pumper given them by the East Port Chester (now Byram) Fire Department. 1907 Greenwich Hospital Association establishes an ambulance service. There…
Read…be a good starting point to answer questions such as: what types of occupations would women have held? What goods were being sold? And what types of services were available?…
Read…years of service, McKnight retired from her position as the town’s trusted librarian. During her retirement years, she dedicated herself to researching Ellington’s history and became a member of the…
Read…decades of reliable service to Connecticut—pumping out over 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity over its lifetime—until both economic and safety concerns eventually brought about the plant’s decommissioning. The Connecticut Yankee…
Read…from the US Postal Service to carry mail. With the outbreak of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln asked his Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, to establish a naval…
Read…well as the development of the precursor to the modern parole system. Z. R. Brockway, 1853 from Fifty Years of Prison Service by Zebulon Reed Brockway Zebulon Brockway was born…
Read…and accessories, and custom dye, bleach, and finish services. By 1924, the lace company had downsized and moved mostly into the sawtooth block. The Russell Manufacturing Company utilized the eastern…
Read…same a month later, The Federalist Papers (a series of essays published in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788 for the purpose of rallying support for ratification) began to…
Read…parks and plazas all over the world. Teresa Erskine Roth wrote about art history and her publications included the essay “Synthetic Statues,” which appeared in Calder: Sculptor of Air (2009)….
Read…to create public green spaces within urban environments as a means to promote public health, moral uplift, and democratic access to forms of recreation deemed respectable by middle- and upper-class…
Read…to non-white populations. Nicole Sagullo, who is working towards her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Educational Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, contributed this essay during the 2012-13 academic year….
Read…Stevens & Brown in Cromwell, CT, became popular in the mid-19th century as a cheap and durable substitute for wooden toys – Connecticut Historical Society The idea of play also…
Read…began a sharp decline as the age of large, national corporations took shape. The troubled US economy of the 1970s only exacerbated the local brass industry’s problems, as did cheap…
Read…his uncommonly cheap prices.” Believing that African Americans could not “develop [their] moral and intellectual capacities as a distinct people” in the United States, Washington and his family left Hartford…
Read…in two-, four-, and six-pound sizes for 35¢, 65¢, and 85¢, respectively. Production records in 1889 show that the Goshen factory produced 2,592 two-pound cheeses, 12,474 four-pounders, and a whopping…
Read…Jerome built demonstrated that the new design would allow this weight-driven, one-day clock to be mass produced more cheaply and in much greater quantities. The clock came to be known…
Read…products to the East Coast at prices cheaper than most eastern dairy producers offered. In 1915, Andover Creamery Corporation owners voted to dissolve their enterprise and sell its property. For…
Read…and other synthetics, which were stronger, cheaper, and more readily available. By the end of the war, Americans had acquired a taste for these more durable synthetics and silk looms…
Read…products. Developments such as refrigerated train cars and trucks undercut the advantages of fresh and local farm products, with faraway produce sold at cheaper prices. The fossil-fuel-based agriculture of the…
Read…“The common school should no longer be regarded as “common” because it is cheap, inferior, and attended only by the poor and those who are indifferent to the education of…
Read…of knowledge for this generation. Total eclipse by Frederick E. Turner, Willimantic, January 24, 1925 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Frederick E. Turner, of 175 North Street…
Read…Connecticut History Online A Company Town with International Reach Axe-making, which involved a four-step process of forging, grinding, tempering, and polishing the metal head, dominated Collinsville’s economic life. Immense grinding…
Read…the crime. The “murder map” is one of 800 maps in the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society that are being digitized and added to CHS’s online database, with generous…
Read…ca. 1912 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In 1919, the city of Bridgeport bought the facilities for $220,000 and expanded upon its amusements. The park now offered…
Read…Dutch, Hartford, October 6, 1908 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Dave Corrigan is Curator for the Museum of Connecticut History © Connecticut State Library. All rights reserved….
Read…History Online By the 1920s, the national home economics movement had adopted a more scientific approach to the field, supported by legislation such as the Smith-Lever Act (1914) and state…
Read…Hale’s hardy peach, the “Crosbey” (excelsior) … introduced and for sale by G.H. & J.H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn, ca. 1890–96 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In…
Readby Amy Gagnon Funeral notice, ca. 1856 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Romance, sentiment, and strict moral conscience characterized much of expressive life in New England during…
Read…concerns merged in 1905. Smith-Worthington Saddlery Company, Hartford – Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library and Connecticut History Online Business continued to expand and adapt in wartime. The company made…
Read…accustomed to—their rapidly changing environments. H. Knecht, View of New Britain, Conn. NY: Jacob Rau, ca. 1862-68 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In this bird’s-eye view of…
Read…criteria for sound historical methodology, clarity of expression, and use of multi-media documentation to engage online audiences. Here’s what some of the 2012-13 authors had to say about how this…
Read…de Palma took over the bookstore. Unfortunately, with the rise of online commerce and digital media, The Reader’s Feast closed its doors in 2007. As a communal space ahead of…
Read…of 19th-century Connecticut history that you can not only read about, but see firsthand when you visit Hartford. Compiled here on ConnecticutHistory.org, the 15 resources are easily accessed online, through…
Read…Bolt Company, ca. 1885, Marion (Southington) – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In 1839, Micah Rugg established his own business and secured the first patent for mechanically trimming…
Read…by Bowdoin, Taylor & Co., Alexandria, VA, 1864 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In the months following the sobering Union defeat at the first battle of Bull…
Read…Inspires Railroad Company and Steamboat Line Mergers Steamer City of Norwich at wharf in Norwich, ca. 1870 – Mystic Seaport and Connecticut History Online The Norwich & Worcester railroad opened…
Read…sign, Collins Co., Hartford, late 19th century – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online The Collins Company was also a pioneer in the foreign trade. As early as the…
Read…any action brought by an injured employee or the employee’s survivors. Broadside printed after the Fales & Gray steam-boiler explosion – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Industrial Revolution…
Read…Interior of a typewriter factory, ca. 1910, Hartford. Most likely the Underwood Typewriter Manufacturing Company, 581 Capitol Avenue, Hartford – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online The company’s success…
Read…horses, wagons, and other supplies and returning to Connecticut to start the process over again. Peddler and cart, ca. 1900 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online The Yankee…
Read…Hartford History Center. Today, an online finding aid for the records makes them immediately accessible to the public. For students, scholars, and others researchers wanting to investigate the history of…
Read…History Online Louis’ Lunch is currently located at 263 Crown Street in New Haven. The brickwork storefront of the restaurant stands in contrast to the wheeled lunch wagon originally operated…
Read…Sturdevant wool hat factory, Beaver Brook (Danbury), CT, drawing ca. 1858 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online In the early 1800s, Danbury produced mostly unfinished hats. Hatters softened…
Read…includes photographs of Fredi, her family, and friends. Additional selections from the collection may be viewed in the CHS online catalog eMuseum. Nancy Finlay, formerly Curator of Graphics at the…
Read…by Doolittle may be viewed in the CHS online catalog, eMuseum. Nancy Finlay, formerly Curator of Graphics at the Connecticut Historical Society, is the editor of Picturing Victorian America: Prints…
Read…artist, lithographer & publisher – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online Burleigh’s depiction of this Quinebaug Valley town and its satellite communities, Uniondale (left) and Almyville (right), records the…
Read…H. Knecht, artist & lithographer, New York: Jacob Rau, 1861-62 – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online The Scenic Becomes Civic A useful comparison can be made by considering…
Read…ca. 1880-1910 – Archives & Special Collections of the University of Connecticut Libraries, and Connecticut History Online By 1928, the company was in a position to enjoy much of the…
Read…spent her summers back in Bristol. Holcombe’s Early Preservation Efforts Western end of Gold Street before widening, Hartford – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online The preservation efforts she…
Read…1938 – Connecticut Historical Society By 10:00 p.m. the fast-moving storm reached Canada, still with hurricane-force winds. Behind in New England, 600 people were dead and over 700 were…
Read…and the welfare of the enslaved. Connecticut’s blacks—both free and enslaved—not surprisingly thought otherwise, and they were a steady voice urging faster emancipation. In the end, slavery remained in the…
Read…but three days later Robbins noted “this morning there was considerable frost. It is a melancholy time. There was a fast here yesterday on account of the season.” At the…
Read…the late-1890s through the Great Depression. Although Ellington continues farming today, it is one of the fastest-growing towns in Connecticut, evolving from an agricultural center to a suburban bedroom community….
Read…pray and fast some time longer—little Rhode will jump the first,” while Massachusetts urges, “What a dangerous leap!!! but we must jump Brother Conn.” The lower left-hand corner depicts King…
ReadYouTube – Library of Congress This early Edison Manufacturing Co. film shows part of the enormous crowd assembled on July 5, 1897, to watch the fastest harness horse in the…
Read…December and immediately began sharing their religion with the Karen people. The Vintons soon discovered that working independently of one another enabled them to spread their message faster, and the…
Read…to be powered by nuclear fuel it could travel faster and farther than any other submarine in the history of the world. In 1983, the Nautilus was named the official…
Read…on a rotary offset press and the first man to sell a two-, four-, and six-color lithograph press. By the time of his death, industry executives considered him the leading…
Read…Boiler Patent Number 112,627 March 14, 1871 Henry Humphrey and Frederick H. Humphrey, Shutter Fasteners Patent Number 150,955 May 19, 1874 Walter S. Loveland & Edwin C. Henn, Journal Patent…
Read…to the Hartford Courant, Burlington was the fastest growing town in Connecticut in the 1980s. People were moving out of the cities to the suburbs and rural areas—small towns such…
Read…in 1820 received the patent for a wooden truss bridge known as Town’s Lattice Truss. The design fastened diagonally set planks with pegs into a crisscrossing truss system secured at…
Read…Gift of The Hitchcock Chair Co., Ltd Making chairs and other wood furniture had always been a laborious job, as each part was handmade. Hitchcock made the process faster and…
Read…endeavor—making muskets for the United States government. He obtained a contract for 10,000 muskets, believing he knew a way to make them faster and better than anybody else. He established…
Read…of overlapping triangles. Unlike the use of the arch in Burr’s design, Town’s approach distributed the load equally with no vertical timbers. By fastening each triangle at its points of…
Read…– Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Music Division A typical day of instruction involved awaking at 5:00 a.m. to dust pianos and practice before breakfast. The curriculum…
Read…19th century and later. Sadly, barns are fast disappearing, victims of neglect when a property goes out of agriculture and stands in the way of residential development. In fact, the…
Read…plate for fastballs; for curveballs, it moved with a sudden swing left or right at the end. If a batter made contact, the playograph operator moved the ball to a…
Read…machines whose sides consisted of long banks of fast-moving spindles (tapered rods around which yarn or thread is wound) to ensure threads did not break, entangle, or otherwise slow down…
Read…throughout the colonial period and into the 19th century for official days of feasting or fasting depending on the year’s fortunes. There was no set month or date for these…
Read…In this building style, workers pour concrete floor slabs in layers on the ground and then raise them using hydraulic jacks. The slabs then get fastened onto a building’s vertical…
Read…able to live in Greenwich. The materials used in building construction today as well as the method of construction mean that fires burn hotter, buildings burn faster, and the air…
Read…grew. The firm manufactured builders’ hardware, including coat and hat hooks, sash fasteners, picture nails, locks, and knobs, as well as coffin trimmings. Beginning in early 1870 the company switched…
Read…during his stay in New York, Nancy, Toney’s young daughter, was kidnapped. In a city defined by anonymity and fast-paced enterprise, the abduction of Black people had become a profitable…
Read…it, “they found their estates sink so fast, that they must quickly do something.” Colony Pins Its Hopes on New Vessel A group of the settlement’s most prominent merchants set…
Read…and trains. This strategy allowed relatively fast schedules without the expense of constructing a rail route along the irregular Connecticut shoreline and avoided exposing steamboat passengers to the dangers of…
Read…so fast that it exhausted local labor supplies. Soon immigrants from Poland, Russia, Italy, Germany, and other European nations arrived in Avon to assist in fuse manufacturing. The company even…
Read…parts which could be replaced if worn out. The can opener wasn’t Warner’s first invention. He had received a patent in November of 1850 for a Mode of Fastening Hooks…
Read…waters began to recede shows that the water was still moving fast. The partially collapsed roof of a building is visible behind the bridge. Our collective memory of disasters tends…
Read…only a small, outdated fleet of 76 ships. Many of these ships were sailing vessels which proved useless as blockade vessels in the rising age of fast, steam-powered ships. Welles…
Read…tractor which was now half buried in the snowdrift…recorded -60 below,” wrote Connecticut native John Henry Von der Wall on September 25, 1934. Von der Wall was a member of…
Read…“stepping out from the mists of antiquity and the graves of dead languages and ‘taking up the shovel and the hoe.’” However, Yale was not hoeing fast enough to suit…
ReadBy Patrick Mahoney While jai alai is recognized as one of the fastest sports in existence, the game’s popularity in most of the United States dropped off considerably in recent…
Read…November of 1882, Dow and Jones struck out on their own, forming the news agency of Dow, Jones & Company. In order to provide information faster than their competitors, Dow…
Read…remained throughout its existence. Bank Business The bank authorized individual deposits of up to two hundred dollars annually, but a depositor had to give four months advance notice in writing…
Read…reading, writing, arithmetic, and classical languages, along with drawing, painting, sewing, and embroidery. She learned art by copying elements from Old Master prints. For example, elements borrowed from a Dutch…
Read…a reporter for the Hartford Post. Finding his hometown dull in comparison to the adventures he witnessed in the West, Dillingham left Hartford to take a position writing for the…
Read…under false pretenses from the public at large,” as quoted in the foreward to a 2000 edition of Barnum’s autobiography. Barnum spent years rewriting and attempting to control the damage…
Read…whose work includes curating several exhibits at the New Britain Youth Museum and researching and writing a walking tour for Connecticut Landmarks, holds a graduate degree in Public History from…
Read…our state slogan refers. Our constitution-the one on which we stake our claim to be “The Constitution State”-is a 1639 document called The Fundamental Orders. It preceded the American constitution…
Read…as a 15- or 16-year-old, Henry was taken aboard the merchant ship Triumph, commanded by Captain Britnall and bound for New Haven. While on board the ship, Henry befriended Thomas…
Read…Nelson was renovating the second floor to make way for a bathroom, he discovered the literal writing on the wall: “mink and fox and other skins, marked in blue chalk…
Read…the kitchen and dining room, paying bills, and writing monthly reports. James also wrote articles for the Hartford Courant, the Honolulu Advertiser, and the Southern Workman (the journal of the…
Read…Hooker and Cotton and other prominent Puritan leaders during the early years of the New England colonies, and his surviving writings provide a wealth of information about this important formative…
Read…for students not in fraternities to have food, writing programs, and social activities. The Commons Club affiliated with similar clubs at Tufts, Middlebury, and Union Norwich that also provided an…
Read…for Journalism and Mass Communication at Central Connecticut State University. She is also a trustee at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Museum and a writing instructor at the Mark…
Read…a civic responsibility to offer an institution of higher learning to his community. At the time, public education focused on teaching baseline skills in reading, writing, and arithmetic. These basics…
Read…in order to claim the insurance money, but in a response in the local newspaper, Gillette decried the rumors, writing that it could not be true “owing to the fact…
ReadHarriet Beecher was born to a prominent Connecticut family in Litchfield on June 14, 1811. Before she began her prolific writing career, she taught school with her older sister Catherine….
Read…From the Dark Day in 1780 to the 19th-century’s Old Leather Man and the Charter Oak tree, the state’s early tales live on in our writings, artifacts, monuments, and memories….
Read…in Guy’s writings and procured a position for him at the Commercial Advertiser (later known as the New York Globe). Having heard stories about the mistreatment cattlemen endured on ocean…
Read…in Connecticut and elsewhere. Beecher was active in publishing circles also, and it was through his writing for the newspaper The Independent that he came to be accused of adultery…
Read…writing and four years in the ratifying, the Articles of Confederation was the compromise that established our first national government. For that reason, some argue the first president of the…
Read…often called the “father of American religious liberalism.” Bushnell strove to bring religion in closer harmony with the human experience and nature through his writings, and was famous for the…
Read…and community he had created off campus grounds. In 1873, Williams’ biographer admits that Williams was not treated seriously, writing, “When he meant to be most solemn, he excited most…
Read…stage production of “Ah! Wilderness,” which is set in New London, Connecticut. O’Neill drew on New London for the rest of his writing career. The text of Mourning Becomes Electra,…
Read…his home near Elizabeth Park to his offices at the insurance company. Born in 1879, Stevens had begun writing poetry while an undergraduate at Harvard, but his first book of…
Read…under her married name as the poet and writer Lydia Huntley Sigourney, regarded Wadsworth as her patron, and he also helped her get her first work published. Lydia had opened…
Read…them. As State Historian Walter Woodward writes, the original charter received from King Charles II described Connecticut’s boundaries as including all lands west of Narragansett Bay, “south by the sea,”…
Read…delayed. The sand hogs knew better. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on the history of working people. This article originally appeared on…
Read…a friend and patron of artists and writers. Her circle included novelist Henry James, artist Mary Cassatt, and pioneering landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, who designed Hill-Stead’s beautiful Sunken Garden. In…
Read…promptly went on strike to win their fair share, too. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on the history of working people. This…
Read…casualties in a half-dozen hard-fought battles in Virginia. Cornel Garfman, MS, is a writer and historian. This Today in History was published as part of a semester-long graduate student project…
Read…audience called him back for six encores. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on the history of working people. This article originally appeared…
Read…area that included the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Today the Theater Center provides opportunities for new artists and writers to hone their craft through conferences, individual instruction, and the production…
Read…One particular follower of Gilligan’s case, a New York playwright named Joseph Kesselring, decided to take Gilligan’s story and rewrite it as a comedy. His very successful play ran on…
Read…house served numerous functions, providing him a place to live, to write such famous works as True Religion Delineated, and to open the first theological school in North America. After…
Read…Connecticut, residents) Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall purchased a barn and apple orchard in town. Their intention was to turn it into a venue where both aspiring and established writers,…
Read…to radical and untested innovation. For their political opponents—who would turn the Standing Order out of office and write the state’s new constitution in 1818—“The Land of Steady Habits” proved…
Read…African American protest writer, who raised funds to replace the church building when it burned in 1836. The new structure, on Elm Street, also provided a school for African American…
Read…each hour to drink beer. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on the history of working people. This article originally appeared on ShoeLeatherHistoryProject.com…
Read…– Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library While visiting his family in Hartford, Gallaudet became acquainted with Alice Cogswell, a deaf-nonspeaking nine-year-old. He taught her to write basic words by…
Read…other Thanksgiving Proclamations that are no less lyrical. In a November 28, 1968, Hartford Courant editorial, the writer says “…the late Wilbur Lucius Cross in 1935 issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation…
Read…insistence that every member of their society be able to read and write. Our schools continued to flourish in the 19th century under the leadership of Henry Barnard. The Wethersfield…
Read…continued to write about dentistry and invent various devices, such as a foot-powered shower. Wells Sees Potential in Laughing Gas In 1842, Wells took Morton, first, as his student and…
Read…their incomes. In Naugatuck, the rich industrial base provided ample opportunities for children to join the labor force. In 1650, Connecticut passed the “Act for Educating Children.” The writers of…
Read…painter Charles Ethan Porter, writer Mark Twain, architect Theodate Pope Riddle, and sculptor Alexander Calder. Collectors, patrons, and institutions, too, have shaped the state’s arts history. Among these are the…
Read…that writer and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, invented more than tall tales and novels. In 1871, Clemens moved his family to Hartford,…
ReadOn May 19, 1780, a strange darkness fell over much of New England. It was so dark by noon that it was impossible to read or write even sitting by…
Read…lost our early respect for learning. The extraordinary array of public and independent schools and universities across the state we see today has deep roots in our past. Writers and…
Read…sold more than five million copies and Peterson continued to write and edit books on birds and nature, 50 in all, as well as paint and exhibit his artwork in…
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Read…wrote, until her voice gave out. Cornel Garfman, MS, is a writer and historian. This Today in History was published as part of a semester-long graduate student project at Central…
Read…linking disparate social and political movements of the early 20th century, Josephine Bennett was “intersectional” well before the term was invented. Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes…
Read…a 2016 film intended to re-envision the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes for the Shoeleather History Project…
Read…of the Federalists grouped together in the Toleration Party, won control of both houses of the General Assembly and the governor’s chair and vowed to write a new constitution for…
Read…leading onion growing center in the US. By the early 20th century, Westport had a lively arts community that attracted artists, musicians, and writers. The later 20th century saw Westport…
Read…Club. Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) was an English writer and advocate for women’s rights. She co-authored “How the Vote was Won” as a one-act comedy specially written to support women’s suffrage….
Read…extra money in the spring. Christine Woodside of Deep River, Connecticut, edits Appalachia journal and Connecticut Woodlands magazine and writes about the environment, climate change, and American history for periodicals….
Read…The Valentine’s Day traditions we are the most familiar with became popular in the 19th century as more people were able to read and write. We can thank Esther Howland…
Read…Ideals Re-invigorate Westport In the ensuing years, local farmers, merchants, and seafaring captains noticed growing numbers of artists, writers, publishers, actors, and career-minded women among their new neighbors. These newcomers,…
Read…an early start in commercial art. While a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, he met writer Robert Lowry, and in 1938, the two started Little Man Press, producing…
Read…because of his race, Beman went on to enroll at the progressive Oneida Institute, using what he learned to write and speak on the liberation of the oppressed. Beman’s interracial…
Read…that remain of this “unrivaled summer resort” of the late 1800s. Emily Clark is a freelance writer and an English and Journalism teacher at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge….
Read…renovation, allowing the history of the Gilded Age to live on. Emily Clark is a freelance writer and an English and Journalism teacher at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge….
Read…Corporation, one of the largest defense contractors in the world. Sharon L. Cohen is a communication specialist and professional writer who has authored several books on business and Connecticut communities….
Read…approximately two thousand co-eds, dozens of buildings, and a reputation of distinction. Emily Clark is a freelance writer and an English and Journalism teacher at Amity Regional High School in…
Read…1872, her body was returned to Hebron’s Burrows Hill Cemetery. Sharon L. Cohen is a communication specialist and professional writer who has authored several books on business and Connecticut history….
Read…New Haven opening of the country’s first telephone exchange in 1878, while Connecticut writers and reformers such as Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe sought to entertain while also informing…
Read…“penny farthings,” single high-wheeled vehicles, at his factory on Washington Street.) The Wheel Club took their cycles to races in other states, which often meant two- or three-day treks. Since…
Read…Olney went on to write other textbooks including: Olney’s School Atlas, A History of the United State: for the Use of Schools and Academies, and The Family Book of History….
Read…Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on the history of working people. This article originally appeared on ShoeLeatherHistoryProject.com…
Read…the need for newsies altogether. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on the history of working people. This article originally appeared on ShoeLeatherHistoryProject.com…
Read…of progress, the challenge still remains to “reshape the community befitting the dignity of man.” Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes for the Shoeleather History Project (shoeleatherhistoryproject.com)…
Read…did not limit herself to public speaking and lobbying, however. She was also an influential writer and lent her words to letters and articles that publicly addressed issues of discrimination….
Read…the school. Emma Willard as Author In addition to being an educator and reformer, Willard was also a prolific writer whose publications greatly increased her influence. She believed in establishing…
Read…Bethlehem, where local residents eventually requested he become the town’s preacher in 1740. Congregationalist Preacher, Writer, and Educator Bellamy preached the traditional Puritan belief that an abundance of material possessions…
Read…local school board asked Warner to teach first grade and she continued teaching in the same classroom for the next 32 years. An avid reader and writer from an early…
Read…in 1841, James Benjamin Covey made the decision to go with them, as a free man. Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes for the Shoeleather History Project…
Read…team sports as a form of fitness, though Wesleyan’s team tended to lose by large margins in relatively high-scoring games. Writers for the Wesleyan Argus (the student newspaper) justified some…
Read…cut in stone and, it is said, she sculpted the humble rail-splitter’s hands from Georgia granite. Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes for the Shoeleather History Project…
Read…“Palmer and Hoover were roundly criticized for the plan and for their overzealous domestic security efforts.” Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes for the Shoeleather History Project…
Read…1981 at the age of 74. His work, however, continues to live on—celebrated by environmentalists around the world, as well as by such influential public health advocates and writers as…
Read…career as a writer or an artist; but finally decided that her true calling was architecture. She did not attend college and had no formal training as an architect, although…
Read…in Stonington, just 15 miles from Hinman’s home in New London. Emily Clark is a freelance writer and an English and Journalism teacher at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge….
Read…2014, however, indicated otherwise. Research by several scholars and writers, including some at Yale, indicated that three men thought to be white and who preceded Bouchet at the school—Moses Simon…
Read…staff to do likewise. In one instance, Gauvreau had a Courant reporter work undercover at a veteran’s hospital and write about conditions there from an inside perspective. By 1924, the…
Read…suit. In 1939, 150 years after its original passage, Connecticut finally ratified the Bill of Rights. Steve Thornton has been a labor union organizer for 35 years and writes on…
Read…and the popularity of the Frisbee soared. The Frisbee became Wham-O’s best-selling product and spawned dozens of imitators. Consumers purchased over 200 million Frisbees from Wham-O before the company sold…
Read…Conservatory of Music and the University of Maryland both bestowed Ponselle with honorary doctor of arts degrees, further underscoring her significance in music. After battling cancer, Rosa Ponselle died on…
ReadBy Molly May Abolitionists and suffragists Abigail (Abby) and Julia Smith of Glastonbury were best known for their fight against the town tax collector, George C. Andrews, in the 1870s….
Read…its depictions on the best science of the time and, in recognition of this artistic and scientific achievement, Zallinger received the Pulitzer Award for Painting in 1949. The mural can…
ReadGideon Welles (1802-1878) Born in Glastonbury in 1802, Gideon Welles is known best for his work in organizing and expanding the US navy during the Lincoln Administration. After working in…
Read…residences, and industries of Bridgeport and dominate the proportionately smaller view. Best known for women’s apparel, sewing machines, and seamless brass tubing, the industries were almost as celebrated as Bridgeport’s…
Read…Association. The committee studied the recommendations of the conference and others and conducted test flights at day and night and in different weather conditions to see what worked best. Connecticut…
Read…applying state laws at Luna Park, enforcement proved haphazard at best. While a couple of peanut vendors faced prosecution in 1906 for trespassing on the grounds, little attention fell on…
Read…Connecticut General Court, seeking redress from land loss and English encroachment, 1721. “…they make us as goats! by moving us from place to place to clear rough land…”- Photograph Brian…
Read…Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Libraries During World War II, Schenker, who hosted a radio show called “History in the Headlines,” became one of the best-known commentators in…
Read…be the best in the world. The Spanish government placed rigid restrictions on their export, but Bonaparte’s invasion of Spain helped loosen these protectionist measures. Consequently, David Humphreys, a Connecticut…
Read…the US, the Sanborn Map Company, founded in Pelham, New York, became one of the best known producers of these large-scale maps. Beginning in 1867, Sanborn issued fire insurance maps…
Read…and the town did its best to forget this dark chapter in its history. Within two years it had changed its name to Essex, and the raid passed into obscurity…
Read…Rennaissance. A registered pharmacist, she worked at the James Pharmacy before marrying and moving to New York. Petry wrote The Street, a best-selling 1946 book about life in Harlem that…
ReadThe outbreak of the Pequot War (1636-37) is best understood through an examination of the cultural, political, and economic changes that occurred after the arrival of the Dutch in 1611…
Read…the US, the Sanborn Map Company, founded in Pelham, New York, became one of the best known producers of these large-scale maps. Beginning in 1867, Sanborn issued fire insurance maps…
Read…squares, and other basic geometric shapes. An innovator, Lewitt is probably best known for his wall drawings—a radical concept in the art world at the time as they were temporary,…
ReadSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) Missouri-born Samuel Clemens is best known by his pen name Mark Twain. The author, lecturer, humorist, and sometime inventor moved to Hartford in 1871, shortly after…
Read…design of the Wadsworth Atheneum (1842), perhaps Connecticut’s best known example of Gothic Revival architecture. The rectangular building features crenelations along the roof line, and square towers flanking the recessed…
Read…Connecticut Colony that received a biblical name. Best known for its role in the American Revolution, Lebanon was an important base of American operations and is often referred to as…
Read…teams of researchers in corporate and university settings have pioneered medical, technological, and other advances. One of the state’s best-known “firsts” is the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine….
Read…and Ingraham Clocks. It incorporated as a city in 1911. Today, Bristol is mostly residential and best known as the home of ESPN, the American Clock & Watch Museum, and…
Read…it was the British who captured Allen. He wrote of his experience in A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen’s Captivity (1779), which became a best seller. After the war, Allen’s…
ReadOn January 1, 1908, Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was born in New Milford. Bentley is best known for her role as an American spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s…
Read…making it the last city incorporated in the state. West Haven is perhaps best known as the home of Savin Rock Amusement Park, a popular late 19th century seaside resort…
Read…in New Haven became the site of the world’s first commercial telephone exchange, forever changing how communication and long-distance commercial operations worked. While Hartford’s Samuel Colt is known best for…
Read…industries. The items produced varied but included glass flasks, cardboard boxes, and textiles. Today, Coventry is best known as the birthplace of Captain Nathan Hale and is home to the…
Read…Jews, Catholics, and others. Such groups founded some of the state’s oldest and best-known hospitals, universities, and philanthropic organizations. Today, diverse beliefs continue to enrich Connecticut’s cultural and spiritual landscape….
Read…financial responsibility. They did not, however, accept responsibility for the fire and five men were charged and brought to trial; four were convicted. Shortly after, all were pardoned. The best-known…
Read…Company in 1961. In 1963 her illustrated recipe book, the Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Farm Cookbook, became the first cookbook ever to break onto The New York Times Best Sellers List….
Read…an actress, she won four Oscars for best actress—her first in 1933 for the film Morning Glory and her last for On Golden Pond in 1981—as well as an Emmy,…
Read…them for becoming good citizens of the United States, a privilege and elevation to which we look forward with pleasure, and which we believe can be best merited by habits…
Read…it was regarded as the best covering for piano keys, and an adult African elephant tusk of 75 pounds, properly milled, could yield the wafer-thin ivory veneers to cover the…
Read…its best possible light. Every detail became an optimistic advertisement for progress. Artists took care to include new structures (factories, bridges, railroad tracks and stations, gas works, and reservoirs, some…
Read…his life and work. Johnson established the Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and is perhaps best known for his work with Ludwig Mies van der…
Read…Pontefract in Yorkshire, England. Agriculture and various mills along the town’s plentiful waterways supported the settlers’ earliest enterprises. The town might be best known for the wolf’s den where Israel…
Read…attempt to assume absolute control over the Puritan colonies in New England. Connecticut’s leaders decided, therefore, that their best hope for preserving their liberties lay in petitioning for a legal…
Read…was best for sewing machines, and on the patriotic ground that it used only American cotton and labor. How ironic, then, that Willimantic Linen sold out to the American Thread…
Read…a city thrives best by caring and providing for the well being of its citizens. – Albert Pope In 1894, Colonel Albert Pope, of Columbia Bicycle and Pope Manufacturing fame,…
Read…agreement on how best to address the financial crisis. On June 30, 1971, the last day before the start of the new fiscal year, legislators worked into the night to…
Read…their best-selling item was the “Yankee” pocket watch produced for Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro. which sold for a dollar and appealed to the masses. Consequently, by 1915, Waterbury Clock…
Read…The best indicator of ethnicity is often place of birth, but even this can be inaccurate or misleading as in the case of two men with Hispanic names who claimed…
Read…can have most Land and be under best advantages to get Money.” – Rev. William Russell 1730 The Revolution Approaches Liberty Pole demonstration With the Stamp Act of 1765, England…
Read…ingenuity pioneered the concept of interchangeable parts and made Connecticut the “Silicon Valley” of the 19th century. Legislators struggled to discover how best to support and regulate this new economy….
Read…his new bestseller. Later, the company marketed other products—such as cod liver oil, wheat phosphates, and cocoa powder for soda fountains—but Milk of Magnesia outlasted these offerings to reign supreme….
Read…The little Gothic chapel, with lovely stained glass windows, reached completion in 1887. At its dedication, Huntington, then 66 years old, recalled how his mother, “one of the best women…
Read…New York but died nearly a year later, never returning to a Connecticut stage. Gillette is probably best remembered for his 1,300 performances in the lead role of his own…
Read…a collector of fine art and known best for founding the Wadsworth Atheneum, the first public art museum in the US. Wadsworth purchased land on Talcott Mountain in 1805 and…
Read…produced buttons, paint and varnish, hats, and furnishings, among other goods, but tobacco crops and warehouses made up its main industry. Today, the town is best known as the former…
Read…built in 2000, uses the natural terrain in the Lake Compounce area to provide a thrill. In 2002, the Boulder Dash was voted the world’s best wooden roller coaster by…
Read…youth to the countryside. Still, they are rightly best remembered today for their remarkable contribution of a 4,000-acre backyard for Litchfield, a refuge not only for animals but for hikers,…
Read…electrical parts, and hardware to plastics and paper products. It is best known, however, as the birthplace of the American helicopter industry built on the pioneering work of Igor Sikorsky….
Read…father was a linguist and theologian who is best remembered as the abolitionist who found an interpreter for the African captives on the Amistad–thus allowing them to testify during their…
ReadP.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum (1810-1891) Best known as an entertainer and promoter, Connecticut native Phineas Taylor Barnum was also an author, philanthropist, businessman, and politician. He served in the Connecticut…
Read…Elm City. The successful rise of the Long Wharf Theatre is perhaps best exemplified by its current annual patronage of over 100,000, and its transfer of more than 30 productions…
Read…the scandal for the sake of everyone’s reputations. The cover-up, however, was shaky at best, and Tilton continued to talk about his wife and the Reverend Beecher to friends who…
Read…security checked the portrait for explosives and hidden microphones. Conger called Abrams the best contemporary portrait artist he ever saw and years later hired Abrams to do his own portrait….
Read…Oak Park was especially designed for harness racing, though in the early 1900s it was also the site of bicycle and automobile races. It was one of the best-known tracks…
Read…best works to Yale in exchange for a lifetime annuity of $1,000 a year and the construction of a fire-proof building to be designed by Trumbull himself. The Neoclassical building…
Read…expeditions to observe the transits from the best locations around the world. The four members of the German scientific expedition to Hartford: Dr. Gustav Mueller of the Astro-Physical Observatory at…
Read…Middletown in 1922, Guglielmo Papaleo started boxing in 1940 and became the World Featherweight Champion in 1942. He is considered one of the best boxers of the 20th century and…
ReadOn May 7, 1909, Edwin Herbert Land, founder of the Polaroid Corporation, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A scientist and inventor, Land is known best for his development of instant…
Read…and at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The American Institute pronounced its goods to be “By far The Best made in this country, and we believe in the world.”…
Read…changes in name, first Upjohn and Company, and later, Richard Upjohn and Company. Some of their best-known projects include Trinity Church in New York City, the Connecticut State Capitol, the…
Read…began an exploration of Africa before dying of an intestinal ailment in Cairo at the age of 37. His tale of Captain Cook’s voyage was a best-seller in Connecticut and…
Read…that stage actor and playwright, William Gillette, helped modernize theater by doing away with 19th-century melodrama devices and introducing realism into theater productions. Hartford-born William Gillette, known best for his…
Read…church councils. His book, A Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline, is considered one of the best expositions of Puritan church doctrine. Sadly, Hooker did not live to see it…
Read…that Connecticut-born Adrian, the American clothing designer known best for creating costumes showcased in hundreds of movies, also designed Dorothy’s ruby slippers for The Wizard of Oz. Born in Naugatuck…
ReadWilliam Gillette (1853–1937) William Gillette was an American actor and playwright known best for his portrayal of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. A native of Hartford, Gillette gave over 1,300…
Read…who attended games had the opportunity to see some of the best football players in the world. Among the stars who played against the Blues in Hartford that year were…
Read…Service Oliver Wolcott, a native of Litchfield, Connecticut, attended Yale College and graduated in 1747. Immediately upon graduating, he received a captain’s commission from New York Governor George Clinton. In…
ReadUriah Tracy was an attorney and politician who took up arms against the British after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Following his military service, he served Connecticut locally as…
Read…Congressional Representative Foot returned to Cheshire in 1813 and took up farming, but it was not long before his political interests landed him a job in public service. In 1817,…
Read…Hartford found itself underwater, and electricity and telephone service remained out for days. Flood of 1936: Cleanup on Front Street, Hartford, during the Flood of 1936 – Connecticut Historical Society…
Read…Connecticut has in suitable terms thanked the patriotic women for their services, in ministering to the welfare of its defenders; the soldiers, with hearts overflowing with gratitude; have thanked them;…
Read…obscure and unsuccessful spy into a symbol of selfless sacrifice in the service of his country. Cities such as New Haven, Hartford, and New York erected statues of Hale. Since…
Read…had health issues throughout his service with Company K. During a heat spell at Camp Alger near Falls Church, Virginia, Jack had trouble breathing and suffered in the heat. Thayer…
Read…abolitionist and suffrage movements, to lecture at the church. The First American Woman Ordained a Minister Comes to the Park City Mrs. Olympia Brown, ca. 1919- Library of Congress, Prints…
Read…and a farmer. He was also, for many years, an officer in the United States Revenue Cutter Service, forerunner of the Coast Guard. He died in 1827 at the age…
Read…to changing demographics challenged the state to rethink how Connecticut provided education, jobs, training, social services, transportation, housing, legal protection, equal rights, and a political voice to all of its…
Read…commissioners predicted a surge in population over the course of the next 40 years because of the stability of the local water infrastructure and the expansion of services such as…
Read…the ones determining what their communities needed. Rather than continuing to provide services to a predominantly black constituency, black leaders asked whites to leave the NSM and SNCC and organize…
Read…of Hannah’s 16-month service to the Connecticut Courant and the American Revolution in her short obituary: “Died in this city, on Sunday last, Mrs. Hannah Hudson, wife of Mr. Barzillai…
Read…an endless chain. Modifications to this design eventually brought a steamboat into service running the Burlington-Philadelphia-Trenton route in 1790. Court battles between John Fitch and James Rumsey over the origination…
Read…for use in Anglican church services, the bible’s large size complemented the dimensions of the lecterns used in English churches. In addition, because it was meant to be read aloud,…
Read…investing his own capital to help fund the war. On several occasions he took out personal loans to pay soldiers for their service. During the war, the governor kept in…
Read…disperse the family. A conviction on the theft charges and the subsequent sentencing to two years of service under the watchful eye of Cesar’s good friend Elijah Graves helped to…
Read…meeting place for local Girl and Boy Scouts, as well as educational facilities for teaching public school classes. The Aldrich Free Library Association funded these services by soliciting subscriptions from…
Read…opening in the West created a demand for new sources of labor. Experienced Craftsmen Needed From the exhibit the “Irish Women in Domestic Service” – New Haven Museum In addition,…
Read…to the National Army and desire to fit themselves for officers of noncommissioned officers in Government Service.” The packet stated that the program was conducted by the university, not the…
Read…for suppliers of goods and services but reflected the strong pro-slavery sentiments that existed in Connecticut by running ads meant to aid in the capture of fugitive slaves. Though slavery…
Read…to the Congregational church. Adams sat in a pew with “a halter around his neck” as Rev. William Andrews gave a sermon at the crowded church. After the service, a…
Read…following occupation of Atlanta, and Sherman’s March to the Sea. During its service, the regiment lost four officers and 76 enlisted men in the course of battle or from injuries…
Read…men on board had accomplished this seemingly impossible task. After almost 25 years of active service to the United States Navy, in the spring of 1979, the USS Nautilus set…
Read…charter service in Miami, Florida, and then southern California, while also performing as a daredevil at local airshows. Seeking greater excitement, Mamedoff headed to Europe to fight for Finland in…
Read…formation with an extensive history of service to the surrounding area. During the years of colonial settlement, Peter’s Rock was described as a Native American lookout post and given the…
Read…environment, all free of charge. Prior to the 19th century, however, no such services existed in the United States. Around the year 1800 that would begin to change. In 1771,…
Read…to all the homes and farms in the surrounding area. The operation of BL&P began strictly as a family affair with a focus on providing exemplary service to the local…
Read…war’s end. So how lucky was the Thirteenth? When officially mustered out of service in May 1866 the regiment could truly count itself fortunate to have suffered only 197 deaths…
Read…was shot down over Germany. He was initially listed as missing in action and his death was not confirmed until March 1944. He was the first serviceman from Yalesville to…
Read…contracts. At the conclusion of the war, Morgan again focused on his business in the South. He began integrating the service of his shipping routes with those of the rail…
Read…the crowd with constant bulletins and maps of the invasion’s multiple locations. A bulletin service to the city’s factories kept curious workers at their much-needed tasks to produce war materiel—from…
Read…Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hartford for their service that day. However, this time of glory and honor for the USS Hartford did not last. William Heysham Overend English,…
Read…that a storied Naugatuck business had its own “navy” and that it performed espionage services for the United States government during World War II? It’s true. That business was the…
Read…for the state’s fiscal integrity, mandated an annual budget, and created a state civil service system. These attempts to improve governmental efficiency increased executive power relative to the legislature. During…
Read…the schooner Oliver Cromwell, which entered the privateer service in Norwich, Connecticut, during the Revolutionary War. As Yankee peddlers spread their wares beyond New England, “Dr. Lee’s Windham Bilious Pills”…
Read…about two centuries—before railroad service—the economic prosperity of New Haven significantly depended upon Long Wharf. Edward T. Howe, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Siena College near Albany, N.Y….
ReadOn February 7, 1978, the US Postal Service was unable to deliver mail to many Connecticut residents for the first time in almost 40 years. The culprit was a blizzard…
Read…month from the US government as a pension for his military service. The money he saved eventually allowed him to purchase some land in the Daniels Farm area and start…
Read…the title of a university, a national polling service, several businesses, and a bridge that crosses a river of the same name in New Haven, Connecticut. Ezra Stiles’ Description of…
Read…Connecticut as an air raid warden, the assistant chief observer of the Aircraft Warning Service, a registrar for the Red Cross Blood Bank, and a volunteer for hospital work. After…
Read…century, offering an increasingly diverse array of recreational opportunities to Connecticut residents, as well as abundant acres of pristine wilderness. In 1973, the National Park Service designated 855 acres of…
Read…Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown on the western slope of the titular hill. John Meszaros works as a visitor services specialist at the Connecticut Science Center and as a planetarium…
Read…Photography by Todd Jones. Used with the permission of the United States Postal Service®. All rights reserved. The WPA, through its Federal Art Project, also made artwork in public buildings…
Read…accomplishments, Motley worked to desegregate southern universities and public spaces, at times providing legal services to such notable activists as Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1964 she became the first…
Read…organizations such as Brass City Harvest, Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Connecticut’s Waterbury campus. Recent federal and state legislation and…
Read…the master’s aged, favorite horse, and scanned the long line of sleighs and the thousands of bareheaded onlookers jamming Wethersfield Avenue. After the simple Episcopal service, the workers formed two…
Read…the 1920s. The financial problems involved a continuing failure of revenues to cover the costs of production, free service repairs, and problems with poorly designed toy boats. The Lionel Corporation,…
Read…St. Stephen Armenian Church on Tremont Street—they conducted services at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, perhaps as early as 1900. Some Armenians continued to return to their homeland, but many others…
Read…from the Azores, joined the United States Revenue Cutter Service, a predecessor of the modern Coast Guard. Manuel E. Joseph of Stonington served as assistant keeper of the Latimer Reef…
Read…shores of Galveston. His father, Carl Hirschberg, then received correspondence from The National Weather Service, the US Secretary of the Navy, Joseph Daniels, and US Senator James Wadsworth expressing sympathy…
Read…and advocated for throughout the remainder of her career. Becoming the Leader on Industrial Disease Alice Hamilton postage stamp – United States Postal Service, National Postal Museum Collection Hamilton’s work…
Read…Without a physical church, Roman Catholics in Connecticut celebrated Mass and conducted services in homes and other informal locations. With the increase in Roman Catholic immigrants to Connecticut in the…
Read…Old man entering Jewish synagogue for afternoon services in Colchester by Jack Delano, 1940 – Library of Congress, Prints Colchester became home to one of Connecticut’s largest Jewish communities. Colchester’s…
Read…visitors). Sundays mainly involved church services and Porter’s Bible class. The school also encouraged participation in exercises (e.g., skating and rowing) and sports (e.g., tennis and baseball). The various classes…
Read…395 from East Lyme to Plainfield. Tolls and concession income from the 14 service areas that lined the route covered the construction costs for the Connecticut Turnpike. It opened with…
Read…offered religious services and Sunday school classes. Cell block for women prisoners, Connecticut State Prison, ca. 1910-1920 – Connecticut Historical Society Both male and female prisoners were housed in separate…
Read…his distinguished service during this action. Four months later, in September, he was seriously wounded in the Battle of Monterrey, and promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel. He recovered in time…
Read…was a cooper’s apprentice before reading law and pursuing a career in public service. In 1768, he received an appointment as King’s Attorney for the Colony of Connecticut though he…
Read…with England, assessing his career as a portraitist to be more secure siding with affluent Loyalists. Disinherited by his father, a captain in the “rebel service,” Earl staged his own…
Read…Chair Company. Deplorable Living Conditions Despite its years of service to the county, many alleged the Seyms Street Jail actually did more harm to the inmate population than good. The…
Read…hotels, and shopping that attracted summer guests from near and far. Copperthite also gave generously to animal rights charities and protective services for children. Copperthite died suddenly at his daughter’s…
Read…Canaan and Norfolk. Service to the Community Remains of the Forbes furnace, operated by Samuel Forbes, built in 1832 and abandoned in 1885, East Canaan, Connecticut – Connecticut Historical Society…
Read…vocations, including surveyor, storekeeper, and author of a series of almanacs before becoming a lawyer and public official. Sherman’s public service in Connecticut included holding the offices of clerk, selectman,…
Read…Park But the days of Charles Island’s service as a trendy resort location were short-lived. In the years following the Civil War, Charles Island’s reputation as a wholesome family resort…
Read…during this period: to summon the worshippers to weekly church services; announce births, weddings, deaths, or executions; indicate the time of day and curfew; sound alarms for fires, floods, and…
Read…Hurricane Gloria, September 15 through September 28, 1985 – National Weather Service, NOAA Although inland areas suffered immensely, Connecticut’s coastline communities found themselves the hardest hit. From Milford to Stonington,…
Read…formed Progressive Party. The Progressive Party supported organized labor against big business, was in favor of women’s suffrage, and even proposed a national health service. Most of the party’s followers…
Read…in particular, the advantages of reliable air mail service, Maxim positioned Hartford at the forefront of this new trend. He served for many years as chairman of Hartford’s Aviation Commission…
Read…Deep cuts in defense spending after the end of the Cold War sent Connecticut’s economy into recession and challenged the General Assembly on several fronts. Demands for increased social services…
Read…It identifies–significantly–the deceased as “colored” on the front side; a rare recognition of the service provided by African American Civil War soldiers. The reverse side shows a raised figure of…
Read…of damaging natural disasters proved prohibitive to cost-effective operation. The combination of all these factors led the Connecticut Company (owners of the Branford line) to discontinue service in 1947. The…
Read…life of service to the Congregational church in cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle, and Providence, but he soon developed neurasthenia (a now-obsolete term that described a range of mental and…
Read…entered public service and invested successfully in industry and in land in New York State and Ohio. How Seth Pease learned the astronomy, mathematics, and surveying that he employed in…
Read…service. Post-War Innovations Boost Industrial Efficiency After the Civil War, Spencer remained active in manufacture and the development of new ideas. In 1869 he partnered with Charles E. Billings to…
Read…in use today. In recent years, the Windham County Agricultural Society has successfully expanded the variety of services it offers to the community, as well as the entertainment available to…
Read…$10,000 toward the city’s Civil War monument. Dedicated in 1876, Bridgeport’s Soldiers Monument stands in Seaside Park, a testimony to the service of the city’s men and the devotion of…
Read…at Yale University. After spending the previous summer in Paris with the American Ambulance Field Service and meeting pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, Trubee was determined to become a pilot…
Read…Gregory Streets.” During their lifetimes the Freeman sisters overcame significant obstacles as women and as African Americans in 19th-century society. © National Register of Historic Places and National Park Service….
Read…as the “War Committee.” Speaking at a public memorial service held several years after Batterson’s death, William F. Henney announced, “During the war of the Rebellion [Batterson] was of invaluable…
ReadVietnam War (1956 to 1975) The Vietnam era was as divisive in Connecticut as it was in the rest of the United States. Over 600 Connecticut servicemen lost their lives…
Read…served in Meriden where they were mustered into duty as the First Connecticut Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. They have also been called to federal service three times. First, in 1916, when…
Read…Jackson’s trusted companion, the steed carried him into some of the most well-known battles in US history. Little Sorrel’s wartime service earned him a place of honor at the Virginia…
Read…deal with critical questions of racial and gender rights. His was not an easy time for college presidents, although thousands joined a petition asking him to remain in service when…
Read…in service.” Hartford’s own George Keller, one of the city’s leading architects of the 1800s, designed the Gothic and Romanesque revival monument. Following Keller’s death in 1935, his ashes were…
Read…trip ended in 1915, along with his service to Yale. Bingham spent the remainder of his life working primarily in politics. He became lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1922 and…
Read…who heard about its services by word of mouth and who could not afford private medical care. Open for five years, the clinic closed its doors in 1940 following the…
Read…by the American Bridge Company. The bridge’s construction allowed the state to retire ferry service, which had begun in 1694, now that it had more modern means for travelers to…
Read…but during her construction she was lengthened by the insertion of a 130-foot missile section and finished as a fleet ballistic-missile submarine. The George Washington was commissioned into service in…
ReadNew London‘s advantageous location on Long Island Sound made it a center for innovation in the transportation of goods and services by sea. As ocean transportation’s age of sail evolved…
Read…of the site in 1968. In 1973 the National Park Service designated New-Gate Prison a National Historic Landmark. Now called Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mines, the property is administered…
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Read…American service. Some of those commissioned, such as the Marquis de Lafayette, the Baron de Kalb, and Baron von Steuben, became prominent heroes of the American Revolution. Others, notably General…
Read…is now on display at the National Museum of American History), originally measured an exceptionally large 30 feet by 42 feet. According to the National Park Service Web site for…
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Read…war or sold into slavery. Today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in southeastern Connecticut is proof of a people’s endurance and a collaborative project funded by the National Park Service…
Read…developing photographs, making maps, and working as meteorological technicians. The demand for their services became so great that the Army began encouraging women to volunteer by promising them assignments close…
Read…Connecticut recipes for it date back to 1771. Back then, colonists might consume Election Cake during daylong town meetings or as a reward for their service after a long day…
Read…and that its iron suspension rods had deteriorated. The jury’s final verdict ended up being split. The engines were eventually raised, repaired, and returned to service, and the bridge was…
Read…& Northampton Canal recorded a profit only once. Beginning in 1845, the company phased out canal service along the Connecticut portion of the route, and then amended its charter to…
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Read…incorporated in 1836. Back in 1769, Jonathan Warner was granted permission to operate a ferry across the Connecticut River that became the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry, the second-oldest continuously operating ferry service…
Read…and were rude. To meet customers’ demand for patient, polite, and efficient service—qualities which the company decided were more likely to be found in women—female workers were recruited and trained…
Read…destroyed by fire on May 6, 1937. At the time of its destruction, the Hindenburg was in its second season of service and was at the end of its first…
Read…military duty during World War I. Later, inspired by weaponry he saw in the service, Schick went to work to develop the Magazine Repeating Razor, and in 1925 he started…
Read…to soldiers’ homes, transport the sick, supply food, and to provide services to discharged soldiers. The Stamford Ladies Soldiers’ Aid Society held their fair to raise money for medical supplies…
Read…in protest even though the state police had set up barricades on roads leading to Powder Ridge up to two miles away and utilities and other services had been cut….
Read…cow, ox, or mule: 3 cents. Sheep, swine, or goats: one cent each. The ferry boat Brown-Stone, which provided service for fifty years, made its last crossing across the Connecticut…
Read…Revolution and then serving as the state’s first governor after. Trumbull saw Connecticut through one of its most challenging times; his service, and that of his heirs, to the state…
Read…towns of Bethany, Oxford, Naugatuck, and Seymour and incorporated in June of 1871. The town’s early economy centered on farming, friction matches, and rubber shoes and is service based today….
Read…of the Covered Bridge,” in reference to the 1864 West Cornwall Covered Bridge that is still in service today. One of Connecticut’s smallest towns, Cornwall has remained a rural community….
Read…moving people and goods that remains in use today is the Glastonbury-Rocky Hill ferry; opened in 1655, it is the oldest continuously running service of its kind in the US….
Read…Silver City. In 1944, the War Manpower Commission named Meriden “The Nation’s Ideal War Community,” for its industrial and patriotic contributions during World War II. Today’s economy is primarily service-based….
Read…in 1844 by the United States Postal Service. During the Revolutionary War, Redding served as the winter encampment for the Continental army. General Israel Putnam, along with three Continental brigades,…
Read…These privately constructed highways provided for the surge of overland travel, including regular stagecoach service, and made possible the growth of trade and commerce within Connecticut and beyond. At a…
Read…himself, and his company captured many world aviation records including the first flight over the Andes Mountains, the first trans-oceanic air service, the longest-range commercial aircraft, and numerous altitude records….
Read…Enfield visits. During Mother Ann’s first Enfield visit, in 1781, the Shakers were holding services at David Meacham’s house when a mob of townspeople broke in and threatened to tar…
Read…summer the fleet was put into active service guarding the country’s Atlantic coastline. The Connecticut Aircraft Company also built about 100 observation and supply balloons for the United States Army…
Read…as now, its ruins drew tourists to the dairy and tobacco farming community. Though service, mining, manufacturing, and construction businesses now dominate town economy, its agricultural roots are still evident….
Read…military leader during the Revolutionary War. The latter role culminated with his appointment to Brigadier General of the Connecticut Militia. After the war, Wolcott continued in political service as the…
Read…Island Sound that was capable of accommodating ferry service regardless of the height of the tides. With his transportation infrastructure in place, Kelsey began developing attractions to bring visitors to…
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Read…program was in operation. When they returned home, these young men entered the diplomatic service, worked as engineers on infrastructure such as railroads, and served as naval officers, physicians, educators,…
Read…that followed. Today, the Warren Congregational Church continues to serve communities both in Connecticut and around the world. In addition to providing religious services for local residents, the church remains…
Read…its needs and respond. From this has evolved today’s first responders—police, fire, and emergency medical service (GEMS). July 16, 1908 The gong of the ambulances on Greenwich Avenue broadcast one…
Read…Greenwich Board of Health United States Public health service flyer, 1918 – Library of Congress, American Memory Dr. Alvin W. Klein, head of the Greenwich Board of Health, realized that…
Read…followed by one year terms as a member of the state assembly and as a judge, and, finally, retirement from public service. Lyman Hall died in Burke County, Georgia, on…
Read…its needs and respond. From this has evolved today’s first responders—police, fire, and emergency medical service (GEMS). March 11, 1888 Engine No. 48, 3 p.m., March 15, 1888, Greenwich –…
Read…Middletown. His legacy is fostered by Central Connecticut State University, where an endowed chair in Public Policy and Practical Politics and a public service scholarship are named in his honor….
Read…Clients from Litchfield to Quebec In 1802, the following advertisement appeared in the Connecticut Journal: Anson Dickinson has taken a room directly opposite the Episcopal Church, he offers his services…
Read…of Connecticut (1939-1941), President of the United China Relief (1942-1946), and a prominent role in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II (1943-1945). The OSS was the…
Read…riverside, establishing a ferry service and a small trade operation with local Natives. In 1801, Carter received a license to keep a tavern, and the following year, purchased 23 ½…
Read…militia service. The first time Deep River referred to this type of gathering as a “muster” occurred on September 5, 1953. Fifteen corps, from the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and…
Read…in 1865, but the home stayed in his family into the 1920s. It remained a private residence afterward, and in 1987, came under the protection of the National Park Service….
Read…a part of the US Fish and Wildlife Service—with the US Coast Guard maintaining the lighthouse, dock, and other navigational equipment. Today, the island remains under the jurisdiction of the…
Read…paid less than their white counterparts for their Civil War service. Douglass had been active in recruiting young men to serve in the so-called “colored” regiments, including Connecticut’s 29th Regiment…
Read…Inventors Hall of Fame, Kaman received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the United States Department of Defense Public Service Medal and the National Medal of Technology. His achievements extend…
Read…Ives The United States Public Health Service negotiated an agreement among hatters’ unions and the manufacturers in 26 states in which hat factories were located, ending the use of mercury…
Read…of the American Red Cross sent an emergency unit with a fully trained Red Cross first aid disaster team as well as a canteen service to provide food and coffee….
ReadWilliam N. Pinney’s life was one of public service. A lifelong resident of Ellington, William served his town and his state up until his death at the age of 90….
ReadBy Karen Frederick and Anne Young During the 18th and 19th centuries, Greenwich citizens relied on the services of state marshals and constables as well as county sheriffs. These law…
Read…a gathering place where citizens came together to worship, to protect and educate community members, report for military service, conduct business, make laws, mete out punishment, and to bury the…
Read…public service and, soon after completing her education, became involved in the Democratic Party in Connecticut. She was first elected to the state General Assembly in 1952. In nine subsequent…
Read…at Hilton Head. More than 50 years after his death, at a memorial service in 1913, a family member recalled his “noble and precious life,” remembering him as “a man…
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Read…when their 90 days of service were up. It was the first of many feats of bravery Connecticut men would act out over the next four years of bloodshed. John…
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Read…from an array of activities, including church services, dinners, theatrical performances, dance parties, and even a polo match pitting Hartford’s team against that of Springfield, Massachusetts. And, in the day’s…
Read…Pearl Harbor, Fowler enlisted in the army. He spent a year in the field artillery before transferring to the air corps where he volunteered for glider service. His glider training…
Read…the area surrounding Bethany. The Canal Railroad in 1848 and the Naugatuck Valley Railroad in 1849 brought railroad service close to Bethany but not close enough to make the town…
Read…its first few years, the airfield in Bethany served the interests of small-time aviation enthusiasts. Its central location, however, soon made it a convenient stop for planes providing airmail service…
Read…Service, 77 Connecticut lives were lost and property damage exceeded $350 million. Contributed by Emma Demar, a Connecticut Explored intern and Trinity College student in 2011, and Elizabeth Normen, the…
Read…York’s Grand Central Terminal and turning North Stonington into a major transportation hub. Unfortunately for the local industries, railroad service never made it to North Stonington. Instead, railway lines stayed…
Read…and trying to creep back into decent society- What has become of your peace men that used to congregate in your village and hold forth evenings[?] Townspeople responded by forming…
Read…civilian front in this country. Each home must be a fighting squad; each block or neighborhood a fighting battalion.” Columbia Anne Boticello of Glastonbury, her cousins, and a serviceman. Photo…
Read…a consulting service, Design Control, in New Canaan, where he lives today. At 93, he remains an active and sought-after designer. In recent years he has modified some of his…
Read…Arcan Ridge on June 1, 1968. Funeral services were held at the National Cathedral in Washington DC, and her ashes were disbursed next to those of her teacher Anne Sullivan…
Read…held by top museums around the world, and Weir Farm, which sits on land in Ridgefield and Wilton, is the only National Park Service historic site dedicated to American painting….
Read…with Allied flags, a military wound stripe, chevrons denoting his military service, and a variety of medals. By the end of World War I, Stubby was a veteran of 17…
Read…United States Postal Service, or to obtain them from overseas. Legislators passed the law hoping to mitigate the influence of obscene materials on the morality of the general population as…
Read…and platters that he then sold or exchanged with neighbors for goods and services. Redware Pudding Pot, Hervey Brooks, Goshen The life of a farmer-potter meant that Brooks did not…
Read…postal charges made the sending of cards for specific holidays easier. Instead of requiring payment by the recipient and charging by the number of pages included, the postal service now…
Read…added an “e” to his surname and later became an admiral celebrated for his Civil War service) to call for additional experimentation. So, around 1840, Beecher outfitted and sent a…
Read…among others, the local probate judge and the town clerk, the building played an indispensible role in providing residents with municipal services—that is, until December 4, 1917. On that day,…
Read…Italy. After his retirement, the Christmas postal tradition continued, with the United States Postal Service taking responsibility for providing the town’s Christmas cachets—many of them designed by local artists. It…
Read…of the ships of the Connecticut Navy were captured or destroyed by 1779. The Oliver Cromwell, in its service to the Navy, captured nine British ships, the first being the…
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