…that the Hartford Circus Fire may be the worst human-caused…
ReadIn the summer of 1944 the Ringling Brothers and Barnum…
ReadAt 1:59 a.m. on July 29, 1990, a smoke detector…
ReadIn the early morning hours of June 30, 1974, a…
ReadWhile the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City is one of the most famous tragedies behind the organized labor movement, Connecticut had its share of equally dangerous work environments in the early 20th century. Many of them inspired Connecticut Workers to organize.
Read…that the fire, which swept through Waterbury on a stormy…
ReadThe New England factory town of Collinsville, which can still be toured today, once supplied the world with axes, machetes, and other edge tools.
ReadThis educator, activist, and associate of Frederick Douglass served the US as its first African American ambassador.
ReadOn July 16, 1908, the gong of the ambulances on Greenwich Avenue broadcast one of the worst accidents on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
ReadHartford native Dwight Tryon njoyed a long, successful career as a landscape painter and teacher with studios in New York City and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
ReadOn January 13, 1840, over 150 people perished on Long Island Sound when the steamboat Lexington caught fire. Only four survived the “Appalling Calamity,” as newspapers across the country described it.
ReadIn the early 20th century, supporters of the New Deal tried to recreate the Tennessee Valley Authority in the Connecticut River Valley.
ReadTogether the combination of chance and human error produced the most destructive hurricane in Connecticut’s history.
ReadThe most devastating hurricane in New England history.
ReadThe Climax Fuse Company manufactured safety fuse, a type of…
ReadSunspots and volcanic eruptions led to cooler than normal temperatures in the summer of 1816. The cold weather decimated harvests and encouraged many residents to head West into the area of modern Ohio.
ReadHow Greenwich faced the menace of two highly contagious and potentially deadly diseases: polio and Spanish Influenza.
Read…that by 1853, the era of steamboat transportation had largely…
ReadOn a cold April night in 1814 a British raiding force rowed six miles up the Connecticut River to burn the privateers of Essex, then known as Pettipaug. The raiders torched 27 ships and took or destroyed thousands of dollars’ in other supplies.
ReadNot long after midnight on June 28, 1983, a section…
ReadDiaries, letters, and other documents provide firsthand witness to the sacrifices of Connecticut men and women during the years of bloody conflict.
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