…provisions, the New Haven Colony ceased to exist, and instead found itself absorbed by the colony of Connecticut. The news devastated the founders of the New Haven Colony, but many…
Read…Church and Crown Streets, New Haven, 1959 – New Haven Museum and Historical Society New Haven as a “Model City” Richard Lee initiated and championed much of New Haven’s urban…
Read…in the capitol building for the first time, beginning a new chapter in state politics. Razing the New Haven Statehouse The last meeting in the New Haven statehouse occurred in…
Read…however, railroad expansion and highway construction ensured the demise of the original wharf by the early 1960s. The Long Wharf is Built in New Haven S.E. view of New Haven…
Read…lost at sea in 1646 – New Haven Museum The New Haven residents massed along the shore knew at once what had happened. In the spirit of their pastor’s odd…
Read…1665. Leaving the Colony of New Haven for Boston By then Davenport was over 60 and in poor health. He might have remained in New Haven, where most in his…
Read…he also purchased substantial acreage and houses in New Haven’s largely undeveloped New Township in the 1810s and ‘20s. Many blacks then settled in the area, where they mixed and…
Read…Benham’s New Haven Directory the New City Hall had just been completed and cast iron mains and lead pipes carried water to every neighborhood. The New Haven Water Company had…
ReadBy Elizabeth Correia Amos Beman spent much of his life a religious leader and social activist in New Haven. After Wesleyan University administrators blocked him from studying at the school…
Read…cities such as Boston and New Amsterdam (now New York). In 1664 New Haven united with the Connecticut Colony. In 1701 the city was granted co-capitol status with Hartford. The…
ReadThe city of New Haven is located in New Haven County in the southern part of the state along the Long Island Sound. The English Puritans who founded New Haven…
ReadOn January 20, 2007, the 35-year-old New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum—better known as the New Haven Coliseum—met its end at approximately 8 o’clock in the morning as crews imploded the…
Read…The quarters were commonly known by their principal occupants: Governor Eaton, Robert Newman, John Davenport, Edward Tench, and George Lamberton. New Haven’s Nine Squares are bounded by the streets known…
Read…chairman Bobby Seale was visiting New Haven at the time of Rackley’s murder and authorities implicated him in the crime. They also indicted Ericka Huggins, founder of the New Haven…
Read…Harlan Kleinman and Jon Jory) remained optimistic that the waterfront spot on the outskirts of New Haven was the right place for the new theater. In particular, they correctly noted…
ReadCollection: Connecticut Historical Society Object: Map – New Haven Harbor, US Coast Survey Maker: George Benjamin Chittenden, assistant Place: New Haven, Connecticut Date Made: 1872 When the United States Coast…
ReadOn June 2, 1953, the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, known today as the Connecticut Supreme Court, ruled that creating a parking authority in the city of New Haven was…
ReadApril is Jazz Appreciation Month YouTube – CTHPrograms – Copyright 2001, Rebecca L. Abbott and Jazz Haven This documentary clip showcases the heritage of New Haven’s jazz community by weaving…
ReadCity: New Haven Settled: 1638 Incorporated: 1784; Town and city consolidated, November 1895 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes…
ReadOn October 13, 1931, the name “Lolly Pop” was officially registered to the Bradley Smith Company of New Haven by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The company had started…
Read…that extended into every corner of the state. Well-known lines included the New York & New Haven and the Hartford & New Haven railroads, which together made up the first…
Read…New Haven Green, Air-o-graph ca. 1959 – New Haven Museum and Connecticut History Online During the 1950s New Haven became a leader in urban renewal efforts, and much of the…
Read…command and to demonstrate his newfound loyalty to King George III? Benedict Arnold house, New Haven – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Illustrated Arnold was 34, living in New…
Read…widely known and able to export their wares to the nearby region. These more specialized craftsmen gathered in the port towns of New Haven, Norwich, and New London and the…
Read…Several Connecticut towns, including New Haven, Stamford, and New Britain, have operated similar “percent-for-art” programs. One of the most endearing works created with public funding is Willimantic’s Frog Bridge, which…
Read…map engraved and published around 1827 by Alfred Daggett of New Haven was re-used in 1831, 1836, 1847, and 1858, each time with new engravers’ and publishers’ names added. Although…
Read…of 1760, he resigned his political post and moved his children to New Haven. Civic Service in New Haven After arriving in New Haven, Sherman gave up practicing law, as…
Read…ambitious canal project undertaken in New England, the Farmington Canal extended from tidewater in New Haven north to Granby, where the route continued into Massachusetts as the Hampshire & Hampden…
Read…in its enforcement. The New Lights, however, preached resistance, if not open rebellion. In a tumultuous election in 1766, New Lights replaced the Old Light governor and councilors. The New…
Read…and friend.” The Moody House, “Chetstone” Chetstone today, Fair Haven Heights, New Haven – Image courtesy of Ian Christmann The house where Moody lived on Grand Avenue in New Haven…
Read…dates, dances, and other social events in New Haven or at other campuses. Alternately, unofficial events such as the Yale-Vassar Bike Race pulled Yalies west—the men leaving New Haven at…
Read…find a single, central location for the college had been completed and the New Haven site was chosen along with a new name, Yale College, after a benefactor. Students from…
Read…1900, they were joined by the new auto enthusiasts (or, as The Hartford Courant described them, “automobilists”). Originally part of the Hartford-New Haven Turnpike built in the late 18th century,…
Read…Haven Museum—recorded his daily activities and interactions with local New Haveners, such as Simeon Smith Jocelyn and Amos Beman, and famous visitors, such as the Marquis de Lafayette. Preserved by…
Read…continue his education, he attended classes at Yale in mathematics and classics. In 1855 he married Eliza Park in New Haven. While in New Haven he also met Frederick Douglass…
Read…Thompson, Connecticut, in 1784, he studied architecture with Asher Benjamin in Boston before moving to New Haven and opening his own architectural office. Ithiel Town in New Haven Among his…
Read…Shore Apartments in Chicago – Robert Gregson New Haven as a Model City One of America’s earliest city plans was created in 1638 with New Haven’s “nine-square grid.” The framework…
Read…the upper post road through New Haven, Hartford and Springfield; the lower post road, running east from New Haven to New London and Providence; and the middle route, which ran…
Read…Island Sound: Quinnipiac (New Haven), Monotwese (North Haven), Menunkatuck (Guilford), and Totoket (Branford). Colonial Settlement Reaches Quinnipiac Territory With the settlement of New Haven in 1638, colonial authorities began to…
Read…New Haven’s Fair Haven oyster shops in 1858. These Fair Haven oysters were then shipped inland to such cities as St. Louis and Chicago. By the 1890s, the world’s largest…
Read…Pennsylvania. It is no wonder, then, that his anniversary brought together so many—more than 100 in all—from New Haven and beyond. Oak Street, in New Haven’s working-class Italian section, was…
Read…Connecticut History Illustrated The most important of these east-west railroads was the New York & New Haven, completed from New York City to New Haven in 1848. Together with the…
Read…would later change) and had already established several schools including Union School in New Haven. Before leaving Amherst in 1821 to go back to New Haven, Webster would help found…
Read…seven from New London and two from Mystic, were purchased for this purpose, along with 16 others from around New England. These ships became known as “the stone fleet.” The…
ReadThe town of East Haven, located in New Haven County, is on the east side of New Haven Harbor in the Long Island Sound. First called East Farms, in 1638…
Read…urban renewal program, New Haven residents protested. The historic move in of the Louis’ Lunch building to its present day location on Crown Street – New Haven Museum and Connecticut…
Read…sign from George Street, New Haven, ca. 1760 – New Haven Museum Revolutionary War Hero While in New Haven, Arnold met his first wife, Margaret Mansfield. They married on February…
Read…1), which connected the Massachusetts capital to New York City. Connecticut State Highway Commissioner John A. MacDonald proposed a solution: a new parallel route that would begin on the New…
Read…the demographics and the landscape in New Canaan. New Canaan in the 19th Century Hanford Davenport house built circa 1820, New Canaan – National Register of Historic Places Revolutionary war…
Read…Haven. Armstrong Rubber Company headquarters, Long Wharf redevelopment area, ca. 1969, New Haven – New Haven Museum Unfortunately for Armstrong, the tremendous upheaval of the 1970s brought an end to…
Read…In New England, numerous towns and cities provided safe havens for those escaping slavery. One of the Underground Railroad’s most vital New England routes went through what is now the…
Read…to American independence, The Hartford Courant is the country’s oldest newspaper in continuous publication. On October 29, 1764, New Haven printer Thomas Green began publishing The Hartford Courant (then known…
ReadThe city of West Haven, located in New Haven County, is in the southern portion of the state and forms part of New Haven Harbor on the Long Island Sound….
Read…on many campuses and in numerous northern cities, including New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia. In 1963, the group moved its main office from New Haven to New York City and…
Read…vistas, majestic mountains, and calming lakes and streams, illustrated the West as well as the New England countryside in paintings such as West Rock, New Haven (1849). These images, as…
Read…supplemented by shipping activity carried on in the seaports of New Haven and New London and the river ports of Hartford, Middletown, and Norwich. Settled by English colonists between 1633…
Read…tabloid fray, convinced Gauvreau to be his new paper’s editor. The paper was the New York Evening Graphic. The Tabloids The first of the American tabloids was the New York…
Read…Pease, New Haven: Amos Doolittle, 1798 Later Territories Though work in the Western Reserve would continue, Pease carried out surveys of the Holland Purchase in New York State in 1798-99….
Read…Company in New Haven and Savage Revolving Firearms Company in Middletown, as well established. But other Connecticut firms without gun-making experience moved into rifle production, too. For these newcomers, musket…
Read…African American newspaper published in New York, revealed his concern and passion for improving the quality of the education and facilities. Members of the state temperance society considered the newspaper…
Read…entered into a partnership with his brother to sell marine hardware and the business proved wildly successful. Bushnell Puts New Haven and New London Railroad Back on Track In 1858,…
Read…R. Hinman, compiled and reprinted the content of a preserved copy of the original New Haven Code under the title The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, usually called Blue…
Read…Forts: 22. Groton: Fort Griswold 23. New Haven: Fort Nathan Hale 24. New London: Fort Trumbull The Coast Guard Academy: 25. New London: Hamilton Hall, United States Coast Guard Academy…
Read…the larger cities, such as Hartford, Middletown, New London, Norwich, and New Haven, or directly with importers in New York or Boston. When they had collected enough produce to fill…
Read…New Haven, Boston, New York City, and the eastern end of Long Island. He participated in “ventures” to the West Indies and recorded the comings and goings of ships to…
Read…complexioned Indian…was bro’t up to the sea,” noted the New London Summary newspaper. At 22 years old, he had an alias (Thomas Ginnings), and on March 5, 1760 he had…
Read…newspapers for pennies a copy. Unfortunately for them, in 1909 the “newsies” found their meager living threatened as a result of a brawl between the country’s most powerful newspaper moguls….
Read…and Julius Maltby of Waterbury incorporated the Narrow Fabrics Company in West Haven; mill construction finished the following year. By 1914, the West Haven business was three times its original…
Read…a memorial to the contributions and sacrifices of the men of the regiment. Historian and veteran of the First Light Battery, Herbert Beecher of New Haven, recognized that “the First…
Read…New Haven in 1921 to parents who were natives of the Caribbean island nation of Nevis. She attended the integrated New Haven public schools before going to college at historically…
Read…first stretch of the waterway, from New Haven to Farmington, opened in 1828. The canal, when completed in 1835, eventually ran from New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts. More Efficient Transportation…
Read…in New Haven. You will be amazed at the riches that could well be found beneath your feet. John A. Pawlowski, Sr., a geologist and earth sciences teacher (now retired)…
Read…a part of the original New Haven Colony. In 1719, it became the separate parish of West Haven, and in 1822, after several failed attempts at incorporation, it joined with…
Read…Gillette Castle State Park and Nathan Hale State Forest. Landscape blight, New Haven, ca. 1950s – New Haven Museum By the 1950s, Connecticut was the fourth most densely populated state,…
Read…housing and education. Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church before redevelopment, New Haven, ca. 1960s – New Haven Museum and Historical Society Two of Connecticut’s earliest black churches were Talcott Street (now…
Read…N. Sherman. She returned to Connecticut and was tried in New Haven in 1872. The jury found her guilty of second-degree murder. She was remanded to the New Haven jail…
Read…a mystery, but there are some interesting connections between the town and the tale. In 1838 Milford resident Edward Lambert wrote in his History of the Colony of New Haven,…
Read…men and women as proposed in the Fourteenth Amendment and worked to limit the power of the New York and New Haven Railroad lobby. Barnum’s successes got him reelected a…
Read…and farms—first to the financial centers of New York and Boston and, eventually, to points far beyond New England as the rail system spread across the country. New York and…
Read…from New Haven to Massachusetts, that offers hikers and climbers spectacular views of Connecticut and Long Island Sound. Far from being a mere recreational hotspot, however, Peter’s Rock is a…
Read…on to New Haven High School for two years before transferring to Hopkins, a prestigious private school in New Haven, where he graduated as class valedictorian in 1870. That year,…
ReadBy Edward T. Howe The first private gas light companies in Connecticut appeared just before 1850 in New Haven, Hartford, and Bridgeport. To light streets, businesses, and homes, the companies…
Read…New Haven; the Niantic in East Lyme; and the Thames River at Norwich and New London. Early Crossing Technologies and Hazards Bissell’s ferry, Windsor The technology utilized by early Connecticut…
Read…a boarding house in Boston with some experience as a copier of legal documents. She was on her way to New Haven (and later to New York City) to act…
Read…Connecticut. He attended Cheshire Academy and studied engraving with his father, Thomas, in New Haven. After a brief apprenticeship in New York, he returned to New Haven after his father’s…
Read…British control. New France was no more. The War’s Lasting Consequences Detail of the news from “Paris, June 19”, The Connecticut Gazette, September 18, 1756, New Haven, Connecticut The French…
Read…Levi Pease established stagecoaching in New England. Pease began his career in 1783 by operating a stage service along the Upper Post Road between New York and Boston. The cost…
Read…of the duke’s patent for New York, took all of Long Island. In 1650, the colony of Connecticut and the Dutch who had settled New Amsterdam (now New York City)…
Read…was to embolden those New Englanders who sought to form a new confederation. In September, the Massachusetts legislature called for a convention of New England states to meet in Hartford…
Read…with the City of New-Haven.” The canal, also known as the New Haven and Northampton Canal, was privately funded and built in the early 19th century to provide water transportation…
Read…father in business in 1762 and cast a bell for the Congregational Church in Newtown that year. Isaac Doolittle of New Haven was a bellfounder as well as a prolific…
ReadBy Edward T. Howe Originally published March 22, 2022 On April 26, 1892, Sarah Boone of New Haven became the first Black woman in Connecticut to be awarded a patent—for…
Read…tell me the exact truth, whether for or against him.’” In 1829, the Terry family moved to New Haven where Alfred Terry Sr. entered the book and stationary business. Terry…
Read…carried the day by a narrow margin and New Haven ceased to be a capital city. When the legislature appropriated funds for a new building, the city of Hartford also…
Read…filled with interesting episodes that mirror the evolution of aeronautics as a whole. For example, unmanned balloon flights took place in both New Haven and Hartford as early as the…
Read…new homes throughout Connecticut, the draw of particular regional immigrant networks promoted the growth of new ethnic neighborhoods in major cities such as New Haven, New London, and Bridgeport. Hartford…
Read…horticulturalist. In the 1750s Aspinwall planted mulberry trees at a nursery he owned in Long Island and later in Mansfield and New Haven, Connecticut. Aspinwall also raised and distributed to…
Read…across the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad tracks behind the Customs House. When the Port Jefferson-Bridgeport ferry that had spent a harrowing night in Long Island Sound tried…
Read…tourist attraction and a national historic landmark. Frequently referred to as either New Gate or New-Gate, the site operated as a prison from 1773 to 1827 and could accommodate more…
Read…included a new stone deck, whitewashing and repointing of the exterior to prevent the entry of water, a copper dome and weathervane, a new wooden staircase, and a new outer…
Read…New London’s harbor and taken safe haven a few miles up the Thames River. Each of his stealthy attempts to escape his confined position had been thwarted by the appearance…
Read…Lake In 1655, with East Haven residents engaged primarily in farming, New Haven businessman Stephen Goodyear and Boston mining entrepreneur John Winthrop Jr. selected a site near the Saltonstall Lake…
Read…Norwich). On March 19, after receiving a United States flag from a group of black women from New Haven, the regiment assembled on the New Haven Green. As they paraded…
Readby Patrick J. Mahoney Since its founding in 1701 as the “Collegiate School,” Yale University, located in New Haven, has earned an international reputation for academic excellence. Among the institution’s…
Read…statistical mechanics laid the groundwork for the development of physical chemistry as a science. Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Life in New Haven Josiah Willard Gibbs was born in New Haven on…
Read…and took part in the expedition that captured the city of Quebec in 1759. After the war, Douglas moved to New Haven and became the commander of a merchant ship…
ReadOn January 28, 1878, the Boardman Building in New Haven became the site of the world’s first commercial telephone exchange, the District Telephone Company of New Haven. The exchange was…
Read…– July 1, 1890, New Haven Mathilde Schott, Die and Dice Box Patent Number 435,635 – September 2, 1890, New Haven Alice M. Hobson, Steam Cooker Patent Number 466,137 –…
Read…and photos courtesy of Brenda Anderson-Killer and Ken Killer, click to enlarge William H. Perkins – Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, 1902, click to enlarge William H. Perkins…
Read…Connecticut and New Haven colonial governments, stipulated that “all charges of the war be born by the poll.” Although no war ensued, Massachusetts enacted a law in 1646, which included…
Read…without food or supplies. New Haven, street unknown. New Haven recorded forty foot drifts – Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries…
Read…college friend who went on to become president of Yale, wrote of David Humphreys in his renowned Travels in New-England and New– York, a four-volume travel diary he kept of…
Read…West Farms and Pipestave Swamp. In 1798, the Hartford and New Haven Turnpike was built through what later became Newington and it immediately attracted a number of new businesses. In…
Read…Albert Frey and Lawrence Kocher for the Allied Arts and Building Products Exhibition in New York. (It currently stands on the campus of the New York Institute of Technology.) Two…
Read…caught the attention of Lou DeFilipo, a scout for the Los Angeles Rams. A New Haven native who played for Hillhouse High School, Fordham University, and the NFL’s New York…
Read…Cornelius Scranton Bushnell of New Haven urged Congress to allocate funds for an ironclad construction program to combat the new ironclad vessels of the Confederate Navy. On August 4, 1861,…
Read…into one of mechanical power, steamships made regular runs between New London and port cities like New Haven and New York. Consequently, it is fitting that it was two New…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay The Thames River crossing at New London has always been a critical point on the overland route from New York to Providence, Rhode Island. Initially, travelers relied…
ReadThe town of North Haven, located in the south central region of the state in New Haven County, lies on either side of the Quinnipiac River and is approximately 10…
Read…in New Haven received the fifth federal AM radio license. Between April and September 1922, the federal government issued initial licenses for Greenwich’s WAAQ, Hartford’s WDAK, New Haven’s WGAH, and…
Read…and sales. In a secret 1970 memo, local agents estimated that 4,000 copies sold each week in Connecticut. In New Haven, the Panthers organized against a new planned highway that…
Read…New Haven. In March 1864, the men paraded through the streets of New Haven and, according to soldier J.J. Hill, “white and colored ladies and gentlemen grasped me by the…
Read…and the Willis Bristol House. His other significant works in New Haven include the Egyptian revival sandstone Grove Street Cemetery gate, Dwight Hall at Yale, the Moorish New Haven railroad…
Read…New London, Connecticut. Authorities then wrongly classified the men as runaway slaves, property, and murderers and imprisoned them in New Haven. The Mende captives ultimately underwent three separate trials, including…
Read…University Art Gallery in New Haven, house his paintings. In addition, Southern Connecticut State University, also in New Haven, named its fine arts building Ralph Earl Hall in his honor….
ReadOriginally published February 21, 2022 …that only one US president has been born in Connecticut. America’s 43rd President, George W. Bush, was born in New Haven at the Grace-New Haven…
Read…— Connecticut’s famous “Charter Oak.” The General Court Becomes the General Assembly Engraving of New Haven Meeting House In 1701, New Haven petitioned the General Assembly for status as the…
Read…contract, the company hired four engineers to assist Boyle, as well as a number of women to sew balloon envelopes in the company’s factory at 136 Haven Street, New Haven….
Read…the forehead. Clinton-born Engraver Puts Himself on the Map Buell moved to New Haven, where he began experimenting with the founding of printing types and the minting of coins, this…
Read…associated primarily with alternative schools that arose to provide clerical education to men of the New Divinity movement. New Divinity followers were largely New England Congregationalists who associated themselves with…
Read…troops in burning New London—destroying more than 140 homes, shops, warehouses, and other buildings. New London’s March of the Traitor – Vincent A. Scarano, Flock Theatre After betraying the Continental…
Read…form one of the first architectural firms in the United States, and together they designed noteworthy Greek, Gothic, and Egyptian revival buildings, including the State Capitol in New Haven and…
ReadOn November 10, 1827 Alfred Howe Terry was born in Hartford. Educated in New Haven, he completed one year of study at Yale Law School. He was admitted to the…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay All maps are historical. They represent specific moments in time and very quickly become out of date as new towns are incorporated, new canals or railroads or…
Read…Sherman died in 1793 of typhoid fever and was buried in the New Haven Green. In 1821, the city relocated his remains to Grove Street Cemetery, also in New Haven….
Read…the school studying theology until receiving his master’s degree in 1749. After tutoring for a number of years, Stiles resigned from the ministry and briefly practiced law in New Haven…
Read…act. No record of a response survives. When (in April 1777) the Committee of Safety in New Haven told Earl to “take up arms,” face imprisonment, or “quit the Province,”…
Read…School in New Haven. It was at Yale that he met Watertown native John Trumbull, an aspiring poet and writer two years older than Dwight. Eventually the pair befriended two…
Read…1772 At 66” – Connecticut Freedom Trail We know that Hartford, New London, New Haven, Norwich, and other towns with large African American populations held elections in May. In some…
Read…the New Haven and Hartford Railroad provided transportation to Derby. Several years later, a special train also came from New York to connect with the Derby Line. A 34-car observation…
Read…later moved to New Haven where he lived until his family relocated to Amherst, New York, when he was 12. Babbidge attended high school there and subsequently enrolled at Yale…
Read…Only three—the Sailors and Soldiers Memorial Arch in Hartford (1886), the Waterbury Soldiers’ Memorial (1884), and the Connecticut 29th Colored Regiment in New Haven (2008)—have any connection to race or…
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…army commanded by the Comte de Rochambeau arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, in July 1780. While most of the French army spent the winter in Newport, a detachment of French…
Read…contested position helped them retain Connecticut’s original lands as far west as the New York border, absorb the New Haven Colony (finalized in 1665), and later lay claim in the…
Read…creative and gave local residents a voice in the creation of artwork. The WPA had an office in New Haven, with Connecticut art experts on staff. By stipulation, the WPA…
Read…as they forged new lives as American citizens, New Britain’s Armenian Americans retained a strong ethnic identity. Many also maintained strong connections with their families in the Middle East, where…
Read…a local gas light company in 1855 and, two years later, proved instrumental in helping bring the first running water to New Britain. In 1871, he even served as New…
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…
ReadTown: East Haven Incorporated: May, 1785 Incorporated from: New Haven Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off…
ReadTown: North Haven Incorporated: October 1786 Incorporated from: New Haven Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from…
Read…relocating to New Haven, the Griswolds lived in Europe, where Richard worked for the State Department while Estelle engaged in humanitarian work. Once in New Haven, Richard went to work…
Read…on May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was a corporate attorney who worked at various times for the New Haven Railroad and the Chase Brass Company in…
ReadOn November 20, 1866, mechanic Pierre Lallement, a temporary resident of New Haven, Connecticut, received a patent for an improvement in velocipedes. Credited with paving the way for the modern-day…
Read…minister, the Reverend Dr. Mott, on March 8, 1864, in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, Connecticut. The men made no show of emotion during the formal ceremony, recalled…
ReadOn July 23, 1793, Roger Sherman—a Connecticut merchant, lawyer, and statesman—died in New Haven. Roger Sherman moved to Connecticut as a young man and applied himself to a number of…
Read…own business in Bristol. There he and his partners mechanized the production of brass movements. Jerome then opened a case factory in New Haven in 1844 and moved all of…
Read…between New York and Boston. In 1930, it provided for the departure of the K of New Haven in its crew’s attempt to complete the first nonstop refueling flight between…
Read…Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport and Waterbury. Immigrants found urban life less attractive. Packed together in the airless tenements of Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, hundreds of immigrants fell victim to…
Read…where Fairfield and Railroad Avenues met. The train, operated jointly by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (or New Haven Railroad, as it became…
Read…Streets; so do New Canaan, New London, and New Milford. Norwich boasts an Elm Avenue. The trees adapted well to the compacted soils—and later pavements—of these towns and not only…
Read…as a child, Boardman found her calling in relieving the pain of others. She graduated with an MD from Cornell Medical School in 1920 and practiced medicine in New Haven,…
Read…way south, eventually reaching the mouth of the Quinnipiac River and what today is New Haven. While his companions, Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport, founded New Haven, Prudden traveled further…
Read…Island, New York. There the federal brig Washington seized the ship and its cargo. American authorities charged the Mende with murder, imprisoned them in New Haven, Connecticut, and towed the…
Read…Jonathan Ingersoll, for lieut. Governor – Connecticut Digital Archive In February 1816, a statewide convention of anti-Federalists took place in New Haven, resulting in the formation of the Toleration Party….
Read…was much older than other applicants, he was accepted and entered Yale in 1771. Bushnell Experiments at Yale Once in New Haven, Bushnell studied religion, mathematics, geometry, Natural Philosophy–as exploration…
Read…to March 21—the campaign held rallies at every municipality with trolley stops—46 in all—in Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford counties. “Votes for Women Automobile Tour Through Litchfield County,” August 1911…
Read…unskilled positions as factory and construction workers—but as years passed, they increasingly found work as barbers, tailors, and musicians in the state’s major cities like Hartford and New Haven. Italians…
Read…the New Haven Register complained that national funds were wasted in Storrs and should be returned to Yale. It contended, “Connecticut has managed to acquire an institution that is at…
Read…When those responsible for the Connecticut Compromise—Oliver Ellsworth from Windsor, William Samuel Johnson of Stratford, and Roger Sherman from New Haven—returned to Hartford to personally implore the state delegates to…
Read…transportation to cities like New York, New Haven, and Providence, steamships operating out of Norwich allowed New England goods manufacturers to reach customers all along the eastern seaboard. By 1840,…
Read…Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) on union printers. In 1934, Santangelo pled guilty to criminal infringement charges in Connecticut and received a-year-and-a-day prison sentence in the New Haven County jail. US…
Read…there are 169 incorporated towns in the state; the newest, West Haven, was created in 1921. That number—and the modern map of Connecticut—is the end result of more than 375…
Read…the New Britain Machine Company, and the Porter and Dylon Company. He was vice president of the New Britain Savings Bank, Director of the Hartford National Bank, the Mechanics National…
Read…towns of New Bedford and Nantucket. In 1850 alone, over one million dollars of whale oil and bone passed through New London. What has gone largely unrecognized, however, is that,…
ReadLong-time New Canaan resident Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer was the first female ambulance surgeon in New York City and the first female physician to work as an intern in a…
Read…Portuguese sailors chose to stay. The Portuguese Find Work in New London County St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Stonington – Connecticut Historical Society By the 1850s, New London, Stonington, and…
Read…head of the Shakers. Father Joseph organized the existing New York and New England communities into bishoprics; later leaders would found new communities and bishoprics in the “western” states of…
ReadNew Canaan, now largely a residential suburb of New York City, was once a leading producer of US footwear. Available in a wide range of qualities and styles, New Canaan…
Read. . . that in the early morning hours of November 17, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Connecticut welcomed the German submarine Deutschland into New London. Clip…
Read…storefront window. Many businesses in North Hartford were attacked during the riots, and Hartford, along with Newark, New Jersey, became a national symbol of racial unrest. Photographer Unknown – The…
Read…Haven, for example, organized events at the Ingall’s Skating Rink protesting the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program on the Yale campus. New Haven was also the site of events…
Read…that summer, Ritchel’s inventiveness made no lasting contribution to the science of dirigibles. New Haven Becomes Home to State’s First Aircraft Industry It would take World War I and the…
Read…New Haven and New London made the trip easy for those living in nearby cities, and the islands became a popular resort area offering a respite from busy city life….
Read…to as “Mob Foot-ball,” the game’s violence resulted in numerous injuries. Yale’s freshman and sophomores traditionally held a match on New Haven‘s town green but the city banned the game…
Read…Tartaglia and a handful of other clergy from New Haven and Waterbury headed for Selma, Alabama. Alabama Police confront the Selma Marchers – Federal Bureau of Investigation Photograph Father Tartaglia’s…
Read…Connecticut with the New Haven Colony. It ends up serving as Connecticut’s constitution for the next 156 years. 1665 Authorities complete the unification of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies….
ReadBy funding a new state house for New Haven in 1827, the General Assembly continued the two-capital tradition. Designed by noted Connecticut architect Ithiel Town, its Greek Revival architecture was…
Read…Haven, New London, and Middlesex counties. The Western Connecticut Highlands area includes all of Litchfield and parts of Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford Counties. Connecticut’s climate is one of the…
Read…in 1775, Lyman Beecher was a native of New Haven, the son of David Beecher and Esther Hawley Lyman. At the age of 18, he entered Yale, where he studied…
Read…sweep of thousands of workers, many of them immigrants, designed to rid the country of all dangerous “Reds.” Attacks launched simultaneously in Bridgeport, Waterbury, Hartford, New Britain, and New Haven….
Read…the American Clock Business (F.C. Dayton, New Haven, 1860) reported that Connecticut manufacturers, like those in other states, had been able to sell their products only domestically because European merchants…
Read…In 1886, New Haven health officer S. W. Williston reported to the General Assembly that “nearly every stream adapted to manufacturing requirements in the state is contaminated” with dyes, acids,…
Read…Infantry Regiment. Though organized in New Haven, the unit boasted recruits from many parts of the state when it sailed for the Gulf Coast in March 1862. Presentation of a…
Read…Windham and Tolland Counties and then continued on south and west to New Haven, Hartford, Fairfield, and Litchfield Counties. Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, and Waterbury recorded the most flu fatalities…
Read…drawbridge was built connecting Middletown and Portland on the Boston & New York Air Line Railroad, which ran between New Haven and Boston. Maritime interests had long opposed bridging the…
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…grounds for dissolution of a marriage in An Act Relating to Bills of Divorce. The act passed after New Haven Colony joined the Connecticut Colony and established the Court of…
Read…the Farmington Academy and the New Haven Female Institute. After teaching in Springfield, Massachusetts, and in Philadelphia, she returned to Farmington and opened a school above the village store with…
Read…pass over the bridge, other witnesses testified that the ball had been lowered. Two years later, the New York & New Haven Railroad settled death claims amounting to an estimated…
Read…leave New London without a special physician’s permit,” The Courant reported. From New London County, the “Spanish Lady” (as it was euphemistically known) headed north and west, spreading across the…
Read…year in New Haven, he moved to Manhattan to continue his studies at New York University. Peterson studied with the noted acting teacher, Sanford Meisner, at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He…
ReadOn October 29, 1764, New Haven printer Thomas Green established a weekly newspaper, the Connecticut Courant, in Hartford. Only the third newspaper to be published in the colony—and now known…
Read…was likely to be burned out, called on Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Torrington, Naugatuck, and Watertown for help, and they all responded by sending hose pipe and steamers, so at…
Read…Windham Courthouse and town hall. County Government in Connecticut In May 1666, the Connecticut Colony adopted county government and established four counties: Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven, and New London. By…
Read…perpetual office holders were to a man members of the Federalist political party that then dominated all New England politics, the phrase was also associated with both Federalism and New…
Read…somber observations of rural New England. Although his work appeared to stand apart from current art world trends, Nason quietly absorbed and processed influences from a broad range of sources,…
ReadIn the late 19th century, Polish immigrants started arriving in New Britain in large numbers to begin new lives working in the city’s many factories. Consequently, by 1930, one-quarter of…
Read…Sound at the mouth of the Thames River, New London has been an important seaport throughout much of Connecticut’s history. The O’Neills actually owned two houses in New London built…
ReadErector Set On July 8, 1913, the United States Patent Office issued a patent to Alfred C. Gilbert of New Haven for his “Toy Construction-Blocks.” What started as the “Mysto…
ReadOn January 11, 1817, Timothy Dwight (theologian, educator, poet, and eighth president of Yale) died in New Haven, Connecticut. A remarkable scholar, Dwight entered Yale at age 13 and upon…
Read…As the popularity of cycling grew, bicycle clubs appeared in cities across the country, including Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven. In 1880 Pope, a businessman who knew the value of…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay for Your Public Media A few days after the initial conflicts between the colonial militia and the British troops in Lexington and Concord, the New Haven printer…
Read…was born, then after 1833 in New York City, where he established a large private school, and finally in New Haven, from 1854 to 1864. Among his students were the…
Read…Mary’s Roman Catholic church in New Haven had founded the organization as a fraternal mutual benefit society. In addition to focusing on charitable works, the Knights of Columbus established a…
Read…school in nearby Cornwall. Gunn entered Yale in the class of 1837 and majored in botany. New Haven, then a thriving port city on the Connecticut coast, held little allure…
Read…cliché, it is known for a fact that he did spend the night in a number of Connecticut towns, including Norwich, New London, Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, New Haven, Ashford, and…
Read…to the Ladies and Gentlemen of New Haven, in the line of MINIATURE PAINTING. Anson Dickinson advertisement – Litchfield Historical Society The earliest known portrait by Dickinson is of his…
Read…formal congregations, the first Jews worshiped in private homes. It was not until 1843 that groups from Hartford (Congregation Beth Israel) and New Haven (Mishkan Israel) successfully petitioned to have…
Read…Fairfield, Watertown, Middletown, and New Canaan, into Westchester, New York, back to Danbury and again to New Fairfield. Clad from head to toe in a stitched leather suit, which is…
Read…new constitutions after the break with England, but the General Assembly merely dropped all references to the King from the Charter of 1662 and continued on as before. Political power…
Read…and seize their cargoes. The town of New London proved particularly proficient at this endeavor. A revolutionary patriot and wealthy merchant who owned a number of ships used for privateering,…
ReadAround the year 1740, brothers William and Edward Patterson (or Pattison) arrived in New Britain from Scotland in search of a new life. Unable to find suitable land for farming,…
Read…1674, when the Dutch finally ceded New Netherlands to the English. New Amsterdam, or New York. Map from The New and Unknown World, by Arnoldus Montanus, Amsterdam, 1671 – Connecticut…
Read…American Revolution. Life in New London A Sketch of New London and Groton with the attacks made on Forts Trumbull and Griswold by the British Troops under the command of…
Read…for each of the newspaper’s stories‚ allowing Sam to read the news of the world while completing his work. Twain’s Young Adult Life At 18‚ Sam headed east to New…
Read…1754 the colony approved the area as a new parish and named it New Briton. By the beginning of the 19th century, New Britain had made its mark as an…
Read…shuttled between relatives in New England and the Midwest and spent much of his teenage years in Maine. In 1876, he attended the Philadelphia Centennial where large-scale displays of national…
Read…Long Island-based daily newspaper that for ten years also published a New York City edition known as New York Newsday. Growing Up in Hartford Postcard Picking Tobacco in the Connecticut…
Read…New Britain by illustrating private residences, churches, and the New Britain Normal School (the predecessor of Central Connecticut State University). Kate Steinway, Executive Director of the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS)…
Read…New Haven, Conn. 2009.27.110 – Connecticut Historical Society As was the case with other parks of this era, the Connecticut amusement also drew inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition of…
Read…lived for a brief time in North Haven and Hamden and then settled in New Haven where they rented a house on Bassett Street. The family had a garden in…
Read…residential neighborhood of Asylum Hill. The station originally operated for multiple railways including the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad, Central New England Railway, and the…
Read…a request for help was sent by the 7:00 train as the rails of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad remained open. The return train brought help from…
Read…back in their native lands. Educating a New Generation of Missionaries Henry Obookiah (Opukaha’ia) – New York Public Library Digital Gallery The school’s first student was a Hawaiian refugee named…
Read…a nearby abandoned road for use by the New Haven Railroad. Image from the film Home Front: During World War II – Co-produced by Connecticut Public Television and Connecticut Humanities…
Read…who built on Warner’s original titles. In 2004, The Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Museum opened in Putnam, Connecticut, which is appropriately housed in an authentic 1920s New Haven Rail Road…
Read…became his home. During the 1830s, ’40s, and ’50s, many other fugitives arrived by ship as he did, landing in Hartford, New Haven, Norwich, and other towns along Long Island…
Read…meetings also allowed for far-reaching organization and, consequently, allowed CWSA leaders like John Hooker and Harriet Beecher Stowe of Hartford, the Reverend Phoebe Hanaford of New Haven, Mr. and Mrs….
ReadThe New Deal Immediately upon taking office in 1932, President Roosevelt began the New Deal, a package of programs aimed at relieving the misery of the Great Depression. Connecticut officials…
Read…Pyramid Pin Company of New Haven, H. Twitchell and Son of Union City/Naugatuck, the Wyoming Pin Company of Winsted, the Jewell Pin Company (which opened in Hartford in 1881), and…
Read…Rohe on the Seagram Building in New York City, the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he lived from 1950 to his death in 2005, and the AT&T building…
ReadThe city of New London, located in—and the city seat of—New London County, sits along the Long Island Sound. Incorporated in 1784 as one of the first five Connecticut cities,…
Read…next American-written advice book appeared in 1790. The Reverend Samuel Deane’s The New England Farmer; or, Georgical Dictionary was published at a time when many farmers in the new nation…
Read…CVA bill and introduced a new bill enabling the New England states to enter into interstate compacts for flood control. The Roosevelt Administration opposed this bill as a preemptive block…
ReadThe town of New Canaan is located in Fairfield County on the Fivemile River and borders New York State. In 1731, Connecticut’s General Assembly established Canaan Parish in northwestern Norwalk…
Read…their old Fords, Chevrolets, Plymouths, and rusty farm pick-ups. After selling their land, most folks had bought new farms and started over. They’d moved to Granby, Suffield, Winsted, New Hartford,…
Read…as well, giving rise to the founding of an entirely new town. Development in the area around modern-day Sprague took hold in 1854, when the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad…
Read…honor of the birth of a new century,” reported the Courant of the “boisterous,” but “on the whole orderly,” celebrations. Declared one writer, “the new century ought to feel proud.”…
Read…new information to the drivers who then helped convey it to other parts of town. Back in New York City, the Cunard office continued to receive official reports. Lists of…
Read…accessible to teachers and dancers in New York City, yet far enough away as to attract new audiences who were not New York regulars. Combining lectures, instruction, and performances over…
Read…hands before the mast Robbert Allison of New York, Alexander Collins New York, Thomas Canada New York ____ Duryea Carpenter New York, Edmund P Irvin New York Daniel OBrian New…
Read…a New England barn was bi-level, with stanchions several feet below grade level on both sides and expanded feed storage above. New England barns were easily expanded by simply framing…
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Read…commerce to, and through, Darien: the New York & New Haven railroad line in 1848 and the Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) in 1958. As the affluent increasingly called Darien home, either…
Read…dozen labor strikes throughout the state: textile workers in Putnam and New London, fur workers in Danbury, necktie and shirt makers in New Haven, and laborers in Newtown. Even unemployed…
Read…new homes in New England—including Connecticut. Stories of Cape Verdean Sailors in Connecticut Antoine DeSant – Mystic Seaport Museum Cape Verdean sailors began showing up in New London, Connecticut, at…
Read…Wesleyan chose to construct this new building in line with College Row so that the courtyard of open grass between the buildings and High Street would be preserved. The construction…
Read…employing large numbers of wage earners—then slowly began to emerge between 1815 and 1824 in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. Connecticut’s First Carpet Companies In 1825, the…
Readby Barbara Austen If you drive through the area of Ohio still called the Western Reserve today, you will find towns named Norwich, Saybrook, New London, Litchfield, Mansfield, and Plymouth….
ReadOn December 20, 1786, a crowd gathered behind New London’s old meeting house to witness the execution of a convicted murderer. The condemned had beat and strangled 6-year-old Eunice Bolles…
ReadThe town of New Milford, located in Litchfield County, is in the western portion of the state near New York and shares its border with the northeastern shore of Candlewood…
ReadThe town of Newtown is located in Fairfield County in the southwestern portion of the state. Settled from the town of Stratford and incorporated in 1711, Newtown was originally a…
Read…Philip Corbin, a major figure in New Britain’s industrial history, along with his brother Frank began manufacturing companies in New Britain as early as 1849. Eventually, the Corbin brothers formed…
Read…80,000 plaster sculptures consisting of roughly 80 different designs. He spent the latter part of his life in the quiet town of New Canaan, where in his workshop he produced…
Read…works for the harbour of new London. Fort Trumbull, in New London, was in fact rebuilt in 1812. We do not know what Wood thought of the plan, nor if…
ReadRevolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) Connecticut played a vital role in the forging of our new nation politically, economically, and militarily. Through a period characterized by conflict, Connecticut provided…
ReadBy Patrick Skahill To be properly cultivated, silk depends on one thing: the silkworm. And silkworms depend on one food source: mulberry trees. Since the 1770s, New England farmers had…
Read…of these entrepreneurs was Amos Morris of East Haven. Morris was a merchant engaged in trade with the West Indies. A direct descendant of mercantile entrepreneurs who left London for…
ReadLippincott, Inc., in North Haven, was one of the most highly respected fine-arts metal fabricators in the country in the second half of the 20th century. As one of the…
Read…scene. Death of Officer in New Britain Robbery Officer James Skelly identified Chapman as the assailant before authorities brought him to New Britain General Hospital. He died there 3 hours…
Read…that the best of America would survive. The French Impressionists celebrated in their new modern urban and suburban lives, but the Americans looked instead to a New England countryside like…
Read…relations—with the British. Rumors abounded that the Convention would call for New England’s secession from the United States in order to achieve the Federalist’s aims. Most New England Federalists, however,…
Read…Morris and his followers. In 1925, after working in Chicago, Boston, and New York, Rogers bought an old house in New Fairfield, Connecticut. Built by David Barnum in 1771, the…
Read…this amazing new flying machine. Nels J. Nelson, a 22-year-old Swedish immigrant working as an automobile mechanic in his shop on Elm Street in New Britain, began building and flying…
Read…jail in the colony held a number of political prisoners, and such was the reputation for prison discipline, that throughout the war effort, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey all…
Read…art. Soon after his arrival, Calder invented a new mode of sculpting in wire, a material he had used since childhood. In this radically new form of sculpture, expressive lines…
ReadBy Donna K. Baron In 1807, the Goshen Congregational Church in Lebanon bought a barrel organ for its new meeting house. (Goshen was the third or south ecclesiastical society within…
ReadThis Fairfield County town shares its western border with New York State while Candlewood Lake, Connecticut’s largest body of water, lies along its eastern edge. Incorporated in 1740, New Fairfield’s…
Read…Litchfield. In addition to new dams, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged new channels in the Naugatuck River—making the river wider, deeper, and safer than it was in 1955. The…
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…broke ground for a new $2 million factory located in New Hartford. This 112,000-square-foot facility boasted modern manufacturing tools and much-needed storage space. The Riverton factory continued operations as an…
Read…knew that it would not be easy, as New England’s cold, wet, and changeable climate is not ideal for astronomical observations. Slocum used a number of means—geographical, architectural, and technological—to…
Read…In Newport, where the slave traders landed Venture, and in the fertile New York and Connecticut farmland along the eastern end of Long Island Sound where he spent the next…
Read…Lodge, a Deacon in the First Congregational Church, and the first president of the New London Bank. Elias Perkins died in New London on September 27, 1845, at the age…
ReadThe Connecticut River is the longest river in New England. Designated the “long tidal river” by the Algonquian peoples of southern New England, it stretches over 410 miles and passes…
Read…and settled in New York. Janet Murrow went to work for the Henry Street Settlement to combat poverty in the United States, but still continued to make news broadcasts whenever…
ReadOn April 22, 1911, aviation pioneer Charles Hamilton crashed his brand new, all white, biplane the “Moth” at Andrews Field in New Britain. Hamilton, a New Britain native, began his…
Read…livestock with the West Indies and Canada. In late 1774, Arnold joined the New Haven Militia and as news of conflict with the British at Lexington reached Connecticut, he seized…
Read…later immortalized the event in the song “Peace Frog,” released in 1970. The New Haven Coliseum, completed in 1972, replaced the iconic New Haven Arena which was demolished in 1974….
ReadOn March 17, 1842, the New Haven Hibernian Provident Society, founded in 1841, sponsored the first St. Patrick’s Day Parade held in New Haven. A small event, the parade featured…
Read…but New Haven outbid them all, and despite Saybrook’s residents taking to the streets in protest, the Collegiate School moved to New Haven. Two years later, the school received a…
ReadCity: West Haven Incorporated: June 24, 1921; As a city June 27, 1961 Incorporated from: Orange Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries…
ReadBy Emily Clark Though he was born in West Point, educated in Europe, and died in New York City, artist Julian Alden Weir called rural Connecticut home. From the serenity…
Read…that during a cold Connecticut winter in 1935 Paul Sperry watched his dog run across ice and snow without slipping and got inspired to create a shoe that would help…
Read…New York to Rhode Island. This new route was to run east along Long Island Sound from Greenwich to East Lyme, then northeast to Killingly. Construction on the renamed Connecticut…
ReadThe town of New Hartford is located in eastern Litchfield County, in the northwest corner of the state. Settled in 1733 and incorporated in 1738, the town was part of…
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…the Hartford Courant. “All the police force in the world cannot suppress the tide of immorality that is setting upon us” without the new court powers, the newspaper argued. Newspaper…
Read…Emeline “Aunt Liney” Williams, Eastern Pequot Basket maker, ca. 1940 – Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation By the close of August (Micheenee kesos), Indians knew that “the corn had become edible,”…
ReadOne of Connecticut’s worst steamboat disasters occurred on the dark and stormy night of October 8, 1833, on the Connecticut River. According to Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents, the New…
Read…went to New York City to participate in Halloween festivities at the children’s department of the New York Public Library. The visit was a tradition of long standing between Hewins…
Read…the business afloat. In 1918, a new 11-story G. Fox building opened on Main Street. Designed by New York architect Cass Gilbert, the new building provided 500,000 square feet of…
Read…New York City and then returned to New London, where he changed the future of dental care. Taking advantage of his skills as a dentist and chemist, Dr. Sheffield, in…
ReadTown: New Fairfield Incorporated: May, 1740 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from larger town-tracts, and…
ReadTown: New Milford Incorporated: October 1712 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from larger town-tracts, and the…
ReadSol Bidek’s family lived in a tenement on Market Street in Hartford. They waited several days for word from New York. Finally, they got the news: their sister was safe….
Read…of Middletown experienced a new wave of industrial development. In 1871, Lewis and Henry Brown moved their business to Middletown and opened a new silk mill. The company started with…
Read…Jonathan Edwards, Jr. Both men were strongly influenced by Congregational minister Samuel Hopkins, who lived in Newport, Rhode Island. Newport was one of the most important centers in North America…
Read…bicycle design. New Departure’s Coaster Brake in Illustrated Bicycle News – Connecticut Historical Society Townsend filed the application in October of 1898 and assigned it to the New Departure Manufacturing…
Read…under Charles Webb of Stamford. Hale was promoted to captain, and in early 1776, he commanded a small unit defending New York City. The British captured New York City during…
Read…to create new conditions, if I found old ones were not favorable to any plan I might have.” One of the “new conditions” he went on to create became the…
Read…under British suspicion. In Brewster’s case, the British knew his name, they knew he lived and operated in and around Setauket, and some accounts indicate they knew he was the…
Read…Street railways first began operations in New York City in 1832. Twenty years later, other major cities began recognizing the benefits of this new mode of transportation. By 1880, there…
ReadTown: New Britain Incorporated: May, 1850; Incorporated as a city, 1871; Consolidated, April, 1905 Incorporated from: Berlin Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries…
Read…the Gilded Age when New York’s railroad tycoons built summer homes along the New England shoreline. Constructed between 1864 and 1868, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion is a significant model of Second…
Read…that the first hospice home-care program in the United States opened in Branford. Founded by Florence Wald, a former dean of Yale University School of Nursing, Connecticut Hospice opened in…
Read…to paint the grey, weathered bridge its distinctive red color that has come to define its rustic mystique. In fact, the bridge has become such an important symbol of New…
Read…of 1913, destroyed so much of the Hazard Company’s operation that company officials opted to relocate the business to Valley Falls, New York, rather than attempt to rebuild in Enfield….
Read….that the First Company Governor’s Horse Guards is the oldest, continuously active, mounted cavalry unit in the United States. Chartered in 1788 as the Governor’s Independent Volunteer Troop of Horse…
Read…century, Augustus George Hazard moved at the age of six with his family to Connecticut. In his early 20s, Hazard established himself in New York City’s shipping and wholesale businesses…
Read…doors flying. By 1946, the Connecticut Charcoal Company was Union’s only industry. It primarily served Southern New England’s large industrial users of charcoal, especially in the copper and brass industries….
Read…landscape architecture in America, Frederick Law Olmsted was born in 1822 in Hartford. His younger years were filled with family vacations through northern New England and upstate New York and,…
Read…Royal and ecclesiastical persecution led to what has been called The Great Migration, which saw some 20,000 Puritans leave England for New England between 1620 and 1640. Most of them…
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…to Hartford to supervise the creation of a new factory and set up its machinery. Colt encouraged Root to mechanize factory operations. He designed advanced drop hammers, boring machines, gauges,…
ReadBy Dawn Byron Hutchins Joseph Toy, his wife, and their three children arrived in New York City from England on a mid-August day in 1839 on a mission for his…
Read…so successful that he expanded his service so that it reached from Boston, through Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford, and down to New York. American Stage Coach, ca. 1795 – New…
Read…to New York City in 1852, he continued his art education at the National Academy of Design. Initially, he painted portraits, a secure way for an artist to make a…
Read…rise to a new form of timepiece—the wristwatch. Civilians soon wanted them too and the wristwatch became part of the company’s regular product line. Detail from a June 22, 1933,…
Read…that in the early 1900s, H.D. Smith and Company of Plantsville began the manufacture of a line of “Perfect Handle” hand tools. “Perfect Handle” hatchet, ca.1910 – The Museum of…
Read…presented new options for leisure time. With this new competition, amusement parks closed all across the US. At Lake Compounce, the number of visitors sharply declined and the park’s popularity…
ReadTown: New London Settled: 1646 Incorporated: January, 1784; Town and city are co-extensive Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes…
Read…thousand people jobless. Consumers Captivated by Sleek, Scandinavian-inspired Design Furniture designer Jens Risom arrived in New York City from Denmark at the age of 23 in 1939. It would not…
Read…Food drops were facilitated by C-47 planes from the New York Air National Guard and the Connecticut Air National Guard. When the event was over, according to the National Weather…
Read…that patents granted to North Branford residents included one for a device used for paring coconut meats in 1875. An industrial invention rather than a tool for the home kitchen,…
Read…that the Wadsworth Atheneum contributed to home front morale and fundraisers during World War II. In December 1940, The Wadsworth Atheneum News Bulletin reported that a two-day British Relief Sale…
Read…of the country, with about one-half of the combined total coming from New England. The proximity of the schools facilitated various social activities for making new friends and enhancing more…
Read…from New York City and entered the Aetna offices (then located on State Street) frantically announcing that New York City was completely engulfed in flames. Summing up a near apocalyptic…
Read…away. The Bristol Press reported that neighboring homes had “lines of men, women and children from the sidewalks to the telephone, patiently awaiting their opportunity to convey the good news…
Read…that the oldest steam-powered cider mill in the US still operates in Mystic. Apple cider, traditionally a mildly alcoholic drink, and its production date back to the earliest days of…
ReadTown: Newtown Incorporated: October 1711 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from larger town-tracts, and the…
Read… that a memorial in Byram Park honors the town’s first police dog. Yogi became the first police dog of the Greenwich Police Department in 1988. Less than one month…
Read…care of their maternal relatives and in 1890 remarried and emigrated to the United States. The Lufbery family lived in New York and New Jersey before settling in Wallingford, where…
Read…that a sign has stood at the intersection of Route 4 and South Road in Harwinton for over 200 years. The use of a sign as a means of communication…
Read…of the 20th century, demand for typewriters soared and Connecticut became an important manufacturing center for this revolutionary new business machine. Underwood Typewriters (with its factory in New Jersey) first…
Read…of New Connecticut in northeastern Ohio, where he endured torrential summer downpours, deep winter freezes, and a variety of temperamental fevers and chills. That experience—a long three years—broke his health,…
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,…
Read…the New Players Project, also performed in the state under her direction. One such event took place in Hartford in 1981 when the New Players Project staged a new Sokolow…
ReadNaugatuck, Tuesday, June 6, 1944 Night watchmen in Naugatuck’s factories heard the news first. A lively march on NBC radio was interrupted at 12:41 am with the news flash that…
Read…that Bridgeport’s nickname is the “Park City” due to its public parks. These parks include Seaside Park and Beardsley Park, both designed by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Seaside…
Read…that Weir Farm located in Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut resulted from the trade of a painting and ten dollars. Erwin Davis, New York collector and friend to impressionist painter, printmaker,…
Read…that in 1966 the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford was featured on the popular TV show I’ve Got a Secret. Actress Arlene Dahl appeared on the show in a dress made…
Read… that in 1896, when the Middletown and Portland Bridge over the Connecticut River opened it was the longest highway drawbridge in the world. Built by the Berlin Iron Bridge…
Read…Pequabuck River. New parking areas and sidewalks emerged, along with new ornamental stonework and period-style lighting. The lagoon was partially restored, but the wetland was retained and an elevated boardwalk…
Read…that New Britain could add automobile manufacturing to its long list of industrial production. Corbin Motor Car logo In 1903 the Russell & Erwin Company and the American Hardware Corporation…
Read…that the Elizabeth Park Rose Garden in Hartford is the oldest municipally operated rose garden in the country. Established in 1904, the park was once the residence—and grounds—of industrialist Charles…
Read…that Hartford, famous as the Insurance Capital of the World, was also once known as the Horseshoe Nail Capital of the World. In the late 19th century, George Capewell formed…
Read…February 1910 among New York City garment workers, the New York legislature enacted a “compulsory” industrial accident compensation act. On March 24, 1911, the New York Court of Appeals (the…
Read…that the William L. Gilbert Clock Corporation of Winsted was one of the few clock-making firms in Connecticut allowed to continue the manufacture of clocks during World War II. Why?…
ReadTown: New Hartford Incorporated: October, 1738 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from larger town-tracts, and the…
ReadOn May 18, 1781, the largest mass breakout in the history of New-Gate Prison took place. At the time, the prison population included British Loyalists who joined the other prisoners…
Read…Entertainment The Streets of New York sheet music, a play produced by Charles Dillingham – The New York Public Library Digital Collections Prior to Frohman’s death, Dillingham began representing English…
Read…1928, the new baby food company, Gerber, held a contest to find a face for their advertising campaign. Westport portraitist Dorothy Hope Smith submitted an unembellished charcoal drawing of a…
Read…at Ballston Spa in Saratoga County, New York, was famous for its healing powers. Unable to find glass bottles or containers capable of standing up to the pressure or containing…
Read…that Deep River holds the distinction of hosting the largest Ancient Fife and Drum Muster. The record was set in 1976 and recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records….
Read…send in the cops to stop all the fun. From the postcard collection at the Danbury Museum and Historical Society In 1899, the citizens of Danbury petitioned the State Law…
Read…used to avoid the city’s streets. Cleopatra’s Needle sailed from Alexandria on June 12, 1880, and arrived in New York on July 20. Davis went on to serve as the…
Read… that Luna Park in West Hartford, a popular attraction at the turn of the 20th century, was demolished in the 1930s to make way for a Pratt & Whitney…
Read…Hometown boy, Kenneth Danforth Smith, served as bat boy in 1912 for the Hatters, Danbury’s New York-New Jersey minor league team. In 1920, he was the manager of the Danbury…
Read…1939 Adrian supervised the design of hundreds of costumes for The Wizard of Oz, including the famous slippers. The ruby color was Adrian’s design decision for the relatively new Technicolor…
Read…prospered as a convenient rail stop between Boston and New York City, until 1889, when the new rail bridge over the Thames River at New London bypassed Norwich. The Ruley…
Read…that in the early 1950s innovative Connecticut minds created the first documented artificial snow for the state’s skiers and sports lovers. In the 1930s skiing became a popular pastime at…
Read…of New England by 1711. The act prohibited the harvesting of white pine trees larger than 24 inches in diameter. Being relatively resistant to rot, soft and easy to carve,…
ReadTown: Newington Incorporated: July 10, 1871 Incorporated from: Wethersfield Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from larger…
Read…that 40% of all the gunpowder consumed in the Civil War came from Powder Hollow in Hazardville (a part of Enfield, Connecticut). Not only that, but during the attack on…
Read…were gathering valuable intelligence about the German fleet’s movements and sharing it with the American armed forces. This article is excerpted and originally appeared in the Naugatuck Historical Society’s Newsletter….
Read…House B&B. With each name change, the home assumed and embraced a new identity representative of the time, its owners, and the community surrounding it. Today, however, the house is…
Read…Wrights moved to Rome, New York, where Benjamin’s father farmed and Benjamin took up surveying. The vast terrain of the West drew Euro-Americans and others seeking land holdings. This created…
Read…several older homes or built Colonial Revival-style mansions on the South Green. New residents included diplomat Paul Bonner, editor and architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler, financier C. Stanley Mitchell, and Dr….
ReadBy Gregg Mangan By 1895, Albert Augustus Pope’s Columbia bicycles were a national phenomenon and his Hartford-based Pope Manufacturing Company was the largest employer in New England. Not only had…
Read…that Connecticut’s Reverend Birdsey Grant Northrop popularized Arbor Day celebrations in schools across the country. While J. Sterling Morton (governor of Nebraska Territory) started an annual day of planting trees…
Read…the time: A certain H. P. Lee, a young man, residing in New-London, has formed a Pill of a different composition, calling them “Lee’s New-London Bilious Pills,” which from the…
Read…Torrington), which opened in 1857; this also failed. Undeterred, Borden found another investor in Jeremiah Milbank of New York. The two became partners and founded the New York Condensed Milk…
Read…the building of a new high school in Clinton, Connecticut. Born April 21, 1795, in Killingworth (now Clinton), Connecticut, Charles Morgan moved to New York City at the age of…
ReadTown: New Canaan Incorporated: May, 1801 Incorporated from: Norwalk and Stamford Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set…
Read…his own Grand Tour for the San Francisco newspaper Alta California. Twain later turned his dispatches into the 1869 book The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s Progress. With more…
Read…New York abolitionist judge. Connecticut Men’s League for Woman Suffrage Dinner Program, Greenwich Country Club, Friday, April 17, 1914. Courtesy, Dr. Kenneth Florey. The Lights moved to New Canaan, Connecticut…
Read…that the Norwich Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized the first known celebration of Juneteenth in Connecticut in 1989. Juneteenth is a holiday…
Read…that in 1744 Thomas Clap, Rector and Yale College president for 26 years (1740-1766), constructed the first orrery, or planetarium, in the American colonies. Clap transformed Yale’s curriculum, ushering in…
Read…moved to the newly created and dedicated Veterans’ Field in Sharon Valley. The Interstate Baseball League Usually an A-team league, the IBL’s semi-pro status was due to the presence of…
Read…that the Ebenezer Avery House on the grounds of Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park in Groton once served as a hospital and refuge for the wounded after the Revolutionary War’s…
Read…obituary in The Danbury Evening News printed on June 29, 1891, stated that “Mrs. Ambler was always expected to say something,” a remark made in regard to her role as…
Read…New London as a prime and picturesque location. Financial assistance followed from local businesses, surrounding towns, and the city of New London, which raised $135,000. An endowment of one million…
Read…neighborhoods, factories, and churches all had their own teams, from the Hartford Dark Blues (one of the first major league clubs), to the semi-pro New Britain Aviators, to the pick-up…
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…at Lee’s Academy had 82 students. These students—including both boys and girls—came from all over Connecticut, in addition to other places such as New York City, Georgia, and New Orleans….
Read…that “haunting” a tavern was once a crime in Connecticut. During the colonial era and into the 19th century, the Connecticut legislature designed strict laws around the amount of time…
Read…strategic position between New York and New England required it to take precautions against the possibilities of attack and of hidden enemies within the community. In 1918, fear of enemy…
ReadOn April 22, 1775, Benedict Arnold demanded the key to New Haven’s powder house. After hearing the news of the fighting at Lexington, Massachusetts, Arnold, as the commander of the…
ReadTown: Branford Settled: 1639–1644 under New Haven jurisdiction Land set off from: New Haven, 1685 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed…
ReadGuilford, in New Haven County, is located in southern Connecticut on the Long Island Sound. Originally called Menunkatucket, the Quinnipiac sold it, along with land stretching from present day Niantic…
ReadOn June 15, 1858, Eli Whitney Blake of New Haven was granted US patent No. 20,542 for a “machine for crushing stone.” The nephew of cotton-gin inventor Eli Whitney, Blake…
Read…after resuming his teaching duties in New Haven, Silliman published the first American study of a meteor—having acquired access to one that fell near the town of Weston. In 1818,…
ReadOn June 30, 1838, the US patent No. 821—the first for a furniture caster—was granted to the Blake Brothers of New Haven. The brothers, Eli Whitney Blake, Philos Blake, and…
Read…Company Governor’s Horse Guard, New Haven, Putnam Phalanx, and Gideon Welles Naval Veteran Association No. 3 of Connecticut, New Haven. Although the USS Hartford’s glory days are behind her, her…
Read…until the Charter of 1662 combined New Haven with the Colony of Connecticut. Shortly after, Davenport left New Haven to accept an appointment at the highly influential First Church in…
Read…the first woman to hold office in an international trade union, and upon moving to New Haven, helped to establish the New Haven Union, a daily newspaper that became a…
Read…Summer Olympics. In 1911, Gilbert began designing a toy construction set based on steel building girders he observed while on a train ride between New Haven and New York. Confident…
Read…brother Henry Schraub Kelly formed the architectural firm Kelly & Kelly, located in New Haven. Among the buildings designed by their firm was the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue…
Read…a mystery, her renown is not, as more than 80 of her 90-plus homes still remain in the greater New Haven area. These “Washburn Colonials,” as locals often call them,…
Read…could afford such luxuries on the salaries they drew after arriving in America. Churaevka, a Haven for Russian Culture Grebenstchikoff also envisioned his new settlement as a home for artists…
Read…United States began when Edward J. Claghorn secured a patent on February 10, 1885, for “hooks and other attachments” in order to keep tourists secure in New York City taxis….
Read…that William Sewell Jr., a Yale Medical School student, built the first “artificial heart” out of Erector Set pieces (including the motor and metal beams), readily available laboratory supplies, and…
Read…Henry Burleigh, a reformer and publisher who, at the time, worked as a harbor master in New York City. With the support of her new husband, Celia Burleigh made a…
Read…the farm, women also drove tractors, operated corn planters, and milked cows. For this, the women working in towns like Middletown, New Canaan, Redding, and Greenwich made $2.00 per day….
Read…that reach as far as New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock to the north and Long Island Sound to the south and encompass more than 50 cities and towns in the surrounding…
Read…movements, and the 19th century was no exception. Elihu Burritt, the “Learned Blacksmith” of New Britain, Connecticut, was one of those who believed that nations should—and could—coexist in peace and…
Read…to increase humidity, protect the tender plants from direct sunlight, and maximize the short New England growing season. The remainder of cultivation takes place by hand. Field workers spend weeks…
ReadYouTube – CPTV – Created by the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network and the Department of Economic and Community Development….
Read…and children. Among these new arrivals was Gardiner’s wife, who gave birth the following spring to the first European child born in the new colony. Illustration of Saybrook Fort in…
Read…and living spaces. In the small town of Kent, Connecticut, however, repurposing old buildings is not a new concept. The present home of the Kent Historical Society—Seven Hearths—has satisfied the…
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…Walker Barron, the head of Dow’s news bureaus in Boston and Philadelphia, purchased Dow, Jones & Company, and its newspaper, for $130,000. The investment paid astronomical returns. In 2007, News…
Read…home in Darien, Connecticut. An Early Start in Photography Margaret Bourke-White in 1955 – Wikimedia Commons Born in New York City in 1904, Bourke-White grew up in rural New Jersey…
Read…meantime, the four beer companies were making plans of their own. It was 1902–a new century, after all–and the growing power of unions called for new strategies by bosses. So…
Read…prints, viewed these new Americans as potential customers. “St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland” is one of a large number of prints with Catholic subject matter issued by these New…
Read…a young age she knew she wanted to be an illustrator, busying herself with crayons and pastels and imitating the comics from the Sunday newspapers. Hoban attended the Philadelphia High…
Read…New England Whalers Championship Banner The team began as the New England Whalers in 1972, playing in Boston as one of the original franchises of a new hockey league, the…
Read…Day Baptists of Newport. John Rogers began to split from that religious body when two of its elders heeded the request of New London town authorities not to baptize a…
Read…museum in 1961, at which time it also became a National Historic Landmark. The Building in Hartford The Connecticut General Assembly ordered the construction of a new state house in…
Read…had preceded them. Many years later Ella recalled a story her father often told. Like many other newly arrived immigrants he arrived in Hartford by boat from New York City…
Read…ordered to attack the port of New London in an attempt to divert some of General George Washington’s army away from the developing Virginia campaign, punish New London for its…
Read…As early as 1711, The Boston News-Letter, the country’s first published newspaper, advertised for the recapture of runaway enslaved people from Connecticut. Importantly, the first two such ads came from…
Read…New York City. Many attributes that make Westport a desirable residential community, however, once made it home to a thriving onion farming industry. Boats and railroad cars full of onions…
ReadA view of the guard house and mines, East Granby, 1781 – Connecticut Historical Society On December 22, 1773, John Hinson the state’s first inmate arrived at New-Gate Prison. Ironically…
Read…the enslaved in New England. Mars’ later life as a free man, political activist, churchman, and autobiographer speaks to the importance of historical memory—of remembering the ugly truths as well…
ReadElihu Burritt from life by J.W. Allderige – New York Public Library Digital Collections, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs On December 8, 1810,…
ReadBy Diane Hassan for the CTPost.com On October 20, 1963, Danbury citizens and dignitaries gathered at 43 Main Street for the dedication of Huntington Hall, a new and then-modern building…
Read…New-York Tribune, September 8, 1888 – Library of Congress, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers By the 1890s, Florence Griswold was in her 40s, and as the only family member still…
Read…In 1780, Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law, and Connecticut and Rhode Island followed suit in 1784. New York and New Jersey, each of which had an enslaved population of…
Read…that the 18th-century Amos Bull House in Hartford and the 19th-century Sterling Opera House in Derby are tied for Connecticut’s first listing on the National Register of Historic Places? The…
ReadBy Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel Mohegan Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges was the great-grandson of Tribal Chair and Medicine Woman Emma Baker. Born December 25, 1918, in New London, Ralph pursued studies…
Read…new windfall. Abbott’s first shipments to New York arrived in oil barrels, as well as molasses and whiskey barrels, all of which leaked excessively along the journey, but still, this…
ReadBy Alex Gerrish Last Updated: April 17, 2023 Known as “one of colonial New England’s finest minds,” Lemuel Haynes was a father, husband, pastor, and patriot. Haynes is widely considered…
ReadA view of the guard house and mines, East Granby, 1781 – Connecticut Historical Society On December 22, 1773, John Hinson, the state’s first inmate, arrived at New-Gate Prison. Ironically…
Read…Aircraft Company. As a result, housing options were limited in the Hartford area. By August of 1943, 8,000 new housing units had been developed in Hartford and New Britain to…
Read…that this small but thriving town had many names before 1850, when residents decided to name their home Seymour after Connecticut governor Thomas H. Seymour. Originally named Chuseville, the area…
Read…from her late husband, Ebenezer, and operated it until she married Barzillai Hudson in 1779. She used the paper to spread news on the American Revolution across the 13 colonies,…
Read…describe the new disease. The similarities between the unknown disease and erythema migrans (EM)—a known disease in Europe sometimes associated with tick bites—made Steere and his colleague, Dr. Stephen Malawista,…
Read…returning to Portland in due time.” In his travels, Thayer claims Jack Brutus visited Boston, New Brunswick, and New York, as well as many other cities on the steamer lines….
Read…Pettipaug was already a well-known shipbuilding center. That several vessels were now being armed and new privateers were being built there did not escape the Royal Navy’s attention. Going In…
Read…century. Buch was born in Forestville, Connecticut, on August 19, 1895. At a young age, she moved to the Bronx, New York, with her parents, John Casper Buch and Nellie…
ReadAndre Schenker – Andre Schenker Papers, Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Libraries On December 7, 1941, Andre Schenker, a Mansfield resident and a professor of history at the…
Read…that beginning in the late 1800s, the Heublein Restaurant in Hartford served its thirsty customers pre-mixed cocktails that became so wildly popular they had to build a distillery just to…
Read…June, General Hull advanced on Detroit by cutting a new road, a task that took most of the month. He arrived at Fort Detroit on July 5. Fort Detroit covered…
ReadBy Anthony Roy James Goodwin Batterson was the son of a stoneworker. Following his birth in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1823, Batterson moved to the town of New Preston where his…
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…steamer Atlantic in 1846 are notable exceptions. The public appetite for news and images of such disasters was apparently insatiable, however. For weeks, newspapers were filled with lurid accounts of…
Read…a lute, a mother rocking an infant in a cradle, 22 small dolls riding a Ferris wheel, a man riding a runaway hog, and, according to one news report, “Mammy”…
Read…provide useful insight into the lives of New England’s elite classes during the colonial period. His achievements appear all the more remarkable when considering Brewster’s success came despite his being…
ReadEvery year, the state of Connecticut observes Veterans Day on November 11. This was not always the case, however. In 1968 a new federal law moved Veterans Day from November…
Read…for warmer weather, but Hale discovered a few hardy trees on his grandfather’s farm and developed a new type of peach that more capably endured the harsh New England climate…
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…by 1842 the company opened a satellite facility in New York City. The company changed partners and names many times and finally became Smith-Worthington when the Hartford and New York…
Read…this Waterford, Connecticut, landmark received a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 for its contribution to furthering the understanding of nearly 200 years of New England…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay While the Middle East is thousands of miles from New England, the Armenian genocide during the early 20th century had a profound impact on Armenian communities in…
ReadBy Andy Piascik Few Major League Baseball players have had rookie seasons as good as Walt Dropo’s. Playing in 1950 for the Boston Red Sox (his favorite team growing up)…
Read…to the attention of the Hartford Courant in 1958. Their September 28th issue ran an article which referred to a mortar in Oneonta, New York. The local newspaper, The Star,…
Read…of many Connecticut residents who left New England in search of adventure and the opportunities that awaited them along the frontier. Lorenzo Carter – A History of Cleveland and Its…
Read…Welfare to the John F. Kennedy administration. Born in 1910 in New Britain to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, Ribicoff attended local schools and, after graduation, worked in a New…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay The name John Pierpont Morgan summons up images of the Gilded Age in New York City. Financier to the robber barons, Morgan built a palatial mansion on…
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…in Burlington acquire a new organ and planned the program for its dedication. The family played a prominent role in Burlington’s Old Homes Days and they opened the family homestead…
Read…highest-paid female illustrator in the United States. Rose O’Neill, illustrator and originator of the “Kewpie” doll, posed in the photographer’s New York City studio, ca. 1907. Photographer Gertrude Käsebier –…
Read…to the heated debate between larger and smaller states over their representation in the newly proposed Senate. A life-long public servant, Roger Sherman went on to serve in the Congress…
Read…studied under Cabael in Paris and was the founder of the Salmagundi Club in New York. Alice was a watercolorist and collaborated on paintings with William Merritt Chase and Charles…
Read…helped usher in a new style of theater in the late 19th century. His 1886 Civil War drama, Held by the Enemy, epitomized this shift. This entirely American play earned…
Read…especially in regard to free labor. In 1858, New York City’s new Central Park Commission appointed Olmsted the architect-in-chief and superintendent, and he oversaw the new park’s design and construction,…
Read…four shillings a day to construct a new meetinghouse, with dimensions of 60 by 43 feet. The new meetinghouse would have a “good decent bell,” a “lightning-rod,” and the interior…
Read…children were born in Cuba or have a Cuban parent—the rest were from Puerto Rico, Mexico, New York, and an unidentified Central American country. In addition, the census also includes…
Read…of the 20th century, Elizabeth Colt Jarvis Beach (niece of the gun manufacturer, Samuel Colt) and her husband George Watson Beach (a wealthy New England businessman) owned hundreds of acres…
Read…New York Highlanders (who later changed their name to the New York Yankees). He spent two relatively unproductive years in New York before joining the St. Louis Browns in 1908…
Read…that in 1828 Jesse Olney published A Practical System of Modern Geography, which revolutionized the way the subject was taught in schools during the 19th century. Olney’s method was to…
Read…shellfish commission in the late 19th century to stock car races in the mid-20th century, that changed over time to meet popular trends. Heavily advertised in newspapers throughout Connecticut, New…
Read…start a new life in Connecticut. In the years that followed, the young Putnam quickly gained a reputation for resilience, building a comfortable new residence for his rapidly growing family…
Read…that the era of Prohibition began January 17, 1919. Though Connecticut residents could legally get alcohol in a pharmacy for medicinal purposes with a doctor’s prescription, many found it easy…
Read…the congregation moved to a new building in 1851. A fire claimed the original church two years later. Religion in Colonial Connecticut Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick, Bishop of Boston who…
ReadBy Diana Moraco Named Connecticut’s State Heroine in 1995 for her efforts to establish the first school for African American women in New England, Prudence Crandall stood apart from 19th-century…
Read…standard version. In 1895—after asking the legislature for a state flag to decorate their new meeting space—the Anna Warner Bailey Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) from…
Read…wider public. Writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe set stories in puritan New England. Similarly, Impressionists Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf and Adelaide Deming created bucolic scenes based on New England…
Read…say, notoriety as founder of the Green Mountain Boys in 1770. This militia formed in response to competing land grants that the provinces of New York and New Hampshire issued…
Read…Samuel Colt filed a patent for his design and, after receiving funding from his family, opened the Patent Arms Company in Paterson, New Jersey. The company originally produced three revolving…
Read…(in New York) and by the Revolutionary War. Records show Mohegan heads of households equaling 35 and the grand total of individuals numbered 84. However, when considering these numbers, it…
Read…attracted new students from outside the Hartford area. The new century also brought new ways of thinking and the curricula expanded to include areas of study such as biology and…
Read…to rehabilitation. Prior to 1827, the infamous New-Gate prison site in East Granby had served the state. New-Gate had been in operation since before the Revolutionary War, but as Connecticut’s…
Read…that amusements and morals don’t mix. At the start of the 20th century, authorities banned Luna Park in West Hartford from operating on Sundays, as it defied long-standing puritan laws….
Read…1900s, thousands of American communities, including 77 in Connecticut, posed for this new kind of urban/town portrait. The O.H. Bailey & Co., a prolific Boston-based publisher of bird’s-eye views from…
Read…every line, Gillette spoke his lines more conversationally, a style of relative underacting that appealed to audiences ready for something new. Early Life and Acting Gillette set his sights on…
Read…that the IWW defied laws and filled jails! In 1919, the Connecticut General Assembly enacted laws aimed at the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) (a.k.a. the Wobblies). The laws…
Read…Stanley worked as a metallurgist. Founded in 1888, the New Departure Bell Company began by making doorbells. It then patented a new type of coaster brake and by 1908 had…
ReadIn 1917, as the 102nd Infantry, 26th Yankee Division of the US Army trained and camped around the Yale Bowl in New Haven, a stray dog wandered into camp. Private…
Read…New Haven to hear speakers on topics such as “Mobilizing the Volunteer” and “The Consumer’s Part in Defense.” The conference was sponsored by the Connecticut Defense Council, which had been…
Read…to the south, Hamden’s most famous geological landmark lies to its north. The unique ridge that runs east-west just six miles north of New Haven is known as “Sleeping Giant”…
Read…for children and adults have appeared in every public library in the state and serve in afterschool programs in Hartford, New Haven, and New London. Dr. Fraser’s career-long devotion to…
Read…electric current to turn on the “danger” signal until a train had moved out of the block. Hall’s Electric Railway-Switch and Draw-Bridge Signal Company was located in New Haven, Connecticut….
Read…improvement of rubber. “Miracle Material” has Fatal Flaw Born in 1800 in New Haven and raised in Naugatuck, Goodyear was 33 years old when he decided to venture into rubber…
ReadOn March 18, 1899, America’s first professor of paleontology, Othniel Charles Marsh, died at his home in New Haven. Marsh is credited with discovering extinct birds with teeth, tracing the…
ReadThe town of Orange, located in New Haven County, is in the state’s southern region near the Long Island Sound. Settled in the early 18th century and known as Bryan’s…
Read…a young man, Arnold settled in New Haven and established himself as a merchant-sea captain in the West Indies’ and Canadian trades. By 1774, he served as a captain in…
Read…year when the volunteers were encamped in the Fair Haven section of New Haven. By January 1864, more than 1,200 men had enlisted and the regiment had met the quota…
Read…problem, and continued pressure from her Soviet counterparts. In August 1945, Bentley went to the FBI headquarters in New Haven and turned herself in and, over the next few months,…
ReadThe city of Milford, located in New Haven County, is in the southernmost part of the state on the Long Island Sound. The land, purchased by English settlers in 1639,…
ReadThe town of Bethany is located in the south central region of the state in New Haven County. First settled in 1717 as part of Woodbridge, Bethany was incorporated as…
ReadThe town of Wallingford, located in New Haven County, is in the south-central region of the state—positioned half-way between New Haven and Hartford. Planters and freemen established the village in…
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…
ReadHamden, in New Haven County, is located in southern Connecticut. Originally settled by the Puritans as part of New Haven Colony, it was incorporated as its own town in May…
ReadThe town of Branford, located in New Haven County, lies next to the Long Island Sound and includes the Thimble Islands. The first settlers of New Haven bought land from…
ReadOn July 22, 1769, Eli Todd was born in New Haven. A Yale graduate, Todd was a pioneer in the treatment of the mentally ill and believed that humane care…
ReadProspect, in New Haven County, is located in southwestern Connecticut near Waterbury. Formerly Columbia Parrish, Prospect was incorporated in 1827 and was formed from the neighboring towns of Waterbury and…
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…article “Wallingford’s Last Mystery,”The New Haven Evening Register, August 9, 1886. A medical examination determined that the remains belonged to an unknown man of 20 to 40 years old who…
Read…Florida, the American Southwest, or Switzerland, while the poorer victims relied on a statewide system of sanatoriums. Hartford County Sanatorium in Newington, the New Haven County Sanatorium in Meriden, and…
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…he lived in downtown New Haven where he worked as a tinsmith. Unlike Pierce—who does not appear to have joined any veterans’ organization—Dardelle faithfully attended his regiment’s annual reunions and…
Read…many improvements” [Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, Connecticut, 1902] Sometime after Nichols’ death four years after this map was published, and before 1902, his Town Plot land was…
Read…who wrote to him. Encouraged by this response, Sandeman did a grand tour of the American colonies, leaving congregations in his wake in several Connecticut towns including Newtown and New…
Read…stockings. Harvard vs. Yale, Foot Ball Match. Hamilton Park, Saturday, Nov. 13th, 1875 Played at Hamilton Park in New Haven, the match was also the first time these schools met…
ReadOn November 1, 1961, Estelle Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton, an obstetrician at Yale University’s School of Medicine, opened the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut in New Haven. Griswold,…
Read…New Haven Gazette, constructed and flew several unmanned balloons above the town green in New Haven. According to the diary of Yale President Ezra Stiles, the third balloon Meigs sent…
ReadAmasa Goodyear was an inventor, manufacturer, merchant, and farmer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 1, 1772, he spent most of his early career engaged in the West Indies…
ReadThis New Haven County town is located in the southern portion of the state. Originally known as Amity parish, Woodbridge incorporated parts of New Haven and Milford in 1784 and…
ReadCharles Goodyear (1800-1860) Born in New Haven, Charles Goodyear attended school in Naugatuck and, in 1826, started the first retail domestic hardware store in the US with his father, inventor…
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…legislature rejected. By the 1870s, the existence of two capital cities was viewed as awkward and ineffective. Hartford won out over New Haven by offering $500,000 to build a new…
Read…He also became a firefighter with the New Haven Steamer Company No. 5 where he drove a horse-drawn wagon. An illustration of Henry Copperthite from the Official program and pictorial…
Read…Cornwall was a member of the 20th Connecticut Infantry Volunteers. He served from September 8, 1862 to June 13, 1865. The regiment was organized in New Haven and left the…
Read…studied architecture in Boston with renowned architect and builder Asher Benjamin. Soon after, Town moved to New Haven and began his own business. In 1820, Town received a patent on…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay for Your Pubic Media On November 6, 1960, forty-eight hours before the Presidential election, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts addressed a street rally in New Haven….
Read…paintings traveled aboard a steamboat to New Haven on September 27, 1832, so that Trumbull could personally direct the hanging of his works. When Trumbull’s wife Sarah died in 1834,…
ReadBy Nancy Finlay Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was born in New Haven on December 22, 1803. He grew up in his grandfather’s house in Middletown, and at 15 earned admission…
Read…a steady economic decline in the area. Northford did not begin recovering until the early 20th century when it found new life as a prosperous residential suburb of New Haven….
Read…Society Total Eclipse of the Sun For weeks in advance, newspapers had advised the use of smoked glass when viewing the eclipse and had recommended limiting the amount of time…
ReadCity: Milford Settled: 1639 as part of New Haven Colony Incorporated: City, June 15, 1959; Town and city consolidated, 1959 Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct…
Read…war shall do likewise. The thought that this would be done lightened the dying hours of many a brave soldier.” Soldiers’ Monument, New Haven – Courtesy of Anthony Roy Monument…
ReadTown: Hamden Incorporated: May, 1786 Incorporated from: New Haven Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set off from…
ReadTown: Orange Incorporated: May 1822 Incorporated from: Milford and New Haven Connecticut is currently divided into 169 “towns” with distinct geographical boundaries. These boundaries changed as parishes were set…
Read…state (regimental) flag in Fair Haven. According to The New Haven Daily Palladium, a local black woman presented the dark blue silk flag made by the Ball, Black & Co….
Read…Machine Gun Battalion of the local Home Guard. As fire departments from Bristol and New Britain arrived to help douse the flames, local factories shut down to provide increased water…
Read…and is the author of three books on New England history and culture, including, most recently, New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)….
Read…Kellys soon moved to New York City, however, and Walt shifted his focus to comic books, where Pogo made its first appearance. The New York Star and the Emergence of…
Read…in Torrington, Connecticut, on May 9, 1800. His father, Owen, having struggled in New England as a tanner and a farmer, moved his family to Hudson, Ohio, in 1805. The…
Read…allowed women to embrace newfound freedom with a bra. The evolution of the bra all began when Mary Jacob refused to wear a typical 20th-century corset. Warner Company’s “Redfern” corset,…
Read…from Bridgeport, Conn., 1882, tinted lithograph, Wils Porter, artist, Charles Hart, New York, lithographer, New York: W.O. Laughna, 1882 – Connecticut Historical Society This 1882 example is somewhat atypical in…
Read…tree had gunpowder residue might confirm its presence at the battlefield of Chickamauga: In fact, there was an article in the New York Times dated June 14, 1898, that wrote…
Read…Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church. (The first African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, Varick Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, began in New Haven in 1818). In 1828, the A.M.E. church-leading Jeffrey family…
Read…Guests Around 1765, Asa Barns began operating a tavern out of his home on the Marion road—a thoroughfare important for connecting Bristol to New Haven. Known as the Barnes Tavern…
Read…death in 1676. During this time, Winthrop acquired a charter that united the Connecticut and New Haven colonies, and he became a commissioner of the United Colonies of New England….
Read…edge, bordered by Farmington Avenue, Sigourney Street, and the Hog (or Park, as it was later renamed) River. The Hartford and New Haven Railroad, built in the late 1830s, cut…
Read…a prosperous resort area. Resort Area Becomes Battleground for Civil Rights In 1955, William M. Philpot, an African American minister at the New Haven Baptist church, bought a cottage on…
Read…received a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Additionally, a 1982 dig by the Greater New Haven Archaeological Society on the Wheeler-Beecher grounds uncovered more than…
Read…were not ratified by all 13 states until 1781). So when delegates such as Oliver Ellsworth from Windsor, William Samuel Johnson of Stratford, and Roger Sherman from New Haven, entered…
Read…of urban and suburban students in the areas neighboring Connecticut’s three largest cities: Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven. Early Student Participants of Project Concern Project, 1968 – Hartford Public Library,…
Read…just east of New Haven. There was little warning. Winds and storm surge flattened cottages and other buildings all along the shore. In some places, the remains of beachfront cottages…
ReadCatherine G. Roraback (1920-2007) A lawyer who successfully tried a number of high-profile cases in Connecticut (including the New Haven Black Panther murder trial of 1971), Catherine Roraback is perhaps…
Read…February 7, 1879, Senator Carlos Smith of New Haven introduced a bill to the Connecticut state legislature entitled, An Act to Amend an Act Concerning Offenses against Decency, Morality and…
Read…trips to churches in Cheshire and Waterbury. Upon receiving approval in 1778, residents chose the highest inhabited elevation in New Haven County as the site for their new Congregational Church….
Read…to appropriate sufficient funds for the statue’s completion. The monument originally resided on property owned by the New Haven Railroad, but when the railroad sold the land for development, town…
Read…intervene in the Berlin crisis. Men from the areas surrounding Stratford, Bridgeport, New Haven, New London, and Hartford answered the call. Ordered to active duty on October 1st, the 103rd…
ReadThis broadside (a large piece of paper printed on only one side) issued by Thomas and Samuel Green of New Haven announced the Proclamation of Governor Matthew Griswold naming Thursday…
Read…New Haven and by 1957, accounted for 5 million acres of plantings in 18 states. Homestead and seed barns of Everett B. Clark, Orange – Orange Historical Society The mergers…
Read…of the worst accidents on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The White Mountain Express, which passed through Greenwich every morning at 9:20, had derailed. The train, traveling…
Read…“out of style,” and with high-profile acts demanding huge paydays affordable only to larger venues like the Hartford Civic Center and New Haven Coliseum, the Oakdale faced financial ruin. A…
Read…them and the power to establish limitations on those individuals. Page from Henry Wolcott Jr.’s shorthand notebook of sermons delivered in Hartford, Windsor, and New Haven between 1638 and 1641…
Read…people of Connecticut a clear legal basis for their colony, provided for the absorption of New Haven Colony, and, most importantly, granted the “Governour and Company of the English Colony…
Read…to all the workers on the Hartford Line. And when the workers on the New Haven Line heard about the Hartford action, they demanded and won the raise too. While…
Read…to preach in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Frustrated by the limits of Presbyterianism, Finney became a Congregationalist and served New York City’s Broadway Tabernacle in the early 1830s. Oberlin…
Read…a group of drunken visitors from New Haven became unruly, damaging the island’s facilities and provoking an altercation with the lighthouse keeper. From Smithsonian Test Site to McKinney National Wildlife…
Read…Colored Volunteers. In January 1864, Douglass had addressed the men of the 29th encamped in New Haven, waiting to be mustered in. Congress finally granted equal pay to African American…
Read…the first printing press in New Haven, served as a deputy to the General Assembly, and as a judge of the county court. In 1774 he took possession of a…
Read…in the skies over New Haven when the plane’s engine died and he lost power. Using the wind to glide the plane to an airfield in Bridgeport, Guyton ended up…
Read…shake continually, while many of the men who have served longer at the trade cannot even feed themselves. New Haven-born Grace Mailhouse Burnham, who had established the workers’ health bureau,…
Read…boosted local cotton production and fostered the creation of large slave-based cotton plantations. Whitney returned to Connecticut in 1793 and began manufacturing firearms in New Haven in 1798. Here his…
Read…to have supplies available for travelers, the small store served as a stop for the Boston to New Haven stage. The popular soda fountain was not added until 1896 by…
Read…owned a succession of fine passenger steamers like the City of Worcester and City of Lowell. The New Haven Railroad inherited a substantial operation when it took control of the…
ReadMeriden, in New Haven County, is located in south-central Connecticut, with the Quinnipiac River cutting through its southwestern portion. Formerly known as North Farms, the area was incorporated as a…
Read…West Haven-based recording label started by members of the band Lost Generation. So, what can a collection like this tell us about Connecticut history? Seen within the larger context of…
Read…library. In doing so, their actions inspired a new wave of interest towards collegiate library development across American higher education. Two Early Literary and Debating Societies Linonian Society Bookplate –…
Read…three days. Connecticut received between 20 and 50 inches in various parts of the state, with snow drifts measuring 12 feet and higher. (New Haven, for example, recorded drifts measuring…
ReadOn April 21, 1862, the USS Galena was commissioned. New Haven businessman Cornelius Bushnell submitted the design for the Galena by naval architect Samuel H. Pook to the United States…
Read…the June 12 flight, but the promise of Ritchel’s invention would not be realized for decades. The Connecticut Aircraft Company of New Haven would later build balloons, dirigibles and even…
Read…took 2½ hours. Connecticut Valley Railroad was taken over in 1880 by the Hartford & Connecticut Railroad and eventually leased to the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad Company….
ReadThe city of Derby, located in New Haven County, is in southwest Connecticut at the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers. Settled as a Native American trading post in…
ReadThe city of Ansonia, located in New Haven County on the Naugatuck River, is in the lower Naugatuck Valley region. Though its development as a village center started in the…
ReadBeacon Falls, in New Haven County, is located in the southwestern portion of Connecticut. Among the state’s smallest towns in population and area, it is bisected by the Naugatuck River…
Read…the area now known as Old Greenwich from Native Americans for twenty-five coats. At first a part of New Netherlands (now New York City), in 1650 it became part of…
ReadMadison, a part of New Haven County, lies in south-central Connecticut adjacent to the Long Island Sound and between the East and Hammonasset Rivers. Formerly East Guilford, it was settled…
ReadThe town of Naugatuck, located in New Haven County, spans both sides of the Naugatuck River and lies just south of Waterbury. Incorporated as a town in 1844, it became,…
Read…the Saybrook colony’s founding, Englishmen undertook efforts to simultaneously settle the areas around modern-day Hartford and New Haven. The founding of these colonies was a response to early Dutch settlements…
ReadThe town of Oxford is in New Haven County, located in southwestern Connecticut. The Pootatuck and Paugussett (the first peoples to inhabit the area), were followed by English settlers around…
ReadThe town of Seymour, located in western New Haven County, lies in the Naugatuck Valley region of Connecticut at the confluence of the Naugatuck and Housatonic Rivers. First known as…
ReadWaterbury, in New Haven County, is located in west-central Connecticut on the Naugatuck River. It was settled in 1674 as a part of Farmington (in what is now known as…
ReadIncorporated in 1807 from former Southbury, Waterbury, and Woodbury lands, the town of Middlebury located in New Haven County town took its name from its location in the midst, or…
ReadBordering on the Lake Gaillard reservoir, North Branford is a town in southeastern New Haven County. This early mill and farming community incorporated from Branford in 1831. The year prior,…
Read…flourished with the 1828 opening of the Farmington Canal, which ran through town and linked New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts. By the time Plainville incorporated in 1869, warehouses, factories and…
Read…In the 1800s, medical training and care became increasingly institutionalized. New London opened the first US eye infirmary, Yale issued the state’s first MD degrees, and Hartford Retreat initiated new…
Read…for recognition and land rights. And sometimes it is violent, as seen in the Hartford and New Haven riots of the Civil Rights era. Noted Connecticut reformers include abolitionist Roger…
Read…one in Hartford and one in New Haven, with legislative meetings alternating between the two.) Notable figures include William A. Buckingham, one of only four Union governors to serve throughout…
Read…an estimated 3,000 people and factory closures in New Haven. Elsewhere, observers reported that the day passed without much notice. Leisure Marks Tribute to Workers By the early 1900s, Labor…
Read…Far East where his father served as the United States Consul General to Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 1917, his family moved to New Haven and Wilder enrolled at Yale….
Read…Whitney bought the land where the New Haven colony‘s first grist mill had been erected 150 years earlier, and he decided to go into the small arms business. At a…
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…numerous corporations, including the Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing company in New Haven in 1919, the founding of Pepperidge Farm in Fairfield in the 1930s, and the opening of the first…
Read…Cole’s earliest patrons. Views of the Samuel Russell House in Middletown and the New Haven Green are by Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892), then a young architect at the beginning of…
ReadThe town of Cheshire is located in New Haven County in the Central Naugatuck Valley. Once part of Wallingford and known as North Farms, Cheshire separated from Wallingford in 1780…
Read…a population of 1,000, had the same number of representatives as New Haven, with more than 100,000 residents. In 1901, Connecticut voters called for a constitutional convention by a 2-1…
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…as in Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven, and Meriden, where his train stopped along the way. Connecticut, however, is the Land of Steady Habits. Many voters did not approve of Roosevelt’s…
Read…entered the industry. The Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven and the Remington Arms Company of Bridgeport began pocketknife production in 1919 and 1920, respectively, to offset a decline…
Read…document putting in practice the principles of self-government. New Haven’s protective palisade Connecticut’s founders came on a religious mission. Bitterly persecuted for their beliefs in England, they created a “Bible…
Read…created the office of the Senate President Pro Tempore, and mandated one Assembly session a year, alternating between Hartford and New Haven. At the same time, it retained Connecticut’s unusual…
Read…advantages, while canal builders and railroads lobbied to supplant them. The legislature balanced regional interests by chartering the Farmington Canal in 1822 to serve New Haven and the Windsor Locks…
ReadThe Rise of the Factory The Civil War propelled Colt, New Haven‘s Remington Arms, and other Connecticut weapons producers to new heights of production. The state’s munitions industry maintained its…
Read…House district represented about 20,000 people. Only 20 were rural. Urban districts numbered 80, suburban ones 77. The Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford delegations in the House grew from two…
Read…Native American equestrian and marksmanship skills, as well as ceremonial dances. In the summer of 1900, after performances in Hartford, New Haven, and South Norwalk, the show came to Danbury….
ReadLocated in western New Haven County, Southbury is bisected by the Pomperaug River, which flows into the Housatonic River along the town’s southern border. Paugussetts and other native groups populated…
Read…of 1938 Southern New England Telephone Company switchboard operators, Hurricane 1944, New Haven, Connecticut – Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries…
ReadLocated at the northern tip of New Haven County, the town of Wolcott, originally known as Farmingbury, incorporated from Southington and Waterbury in 1796. Its name honors Governor Oliver Wolcott,…
Read…Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven for a year in preparation for college. In 1826, at the age of 15, Barnard entered Yale University. At Yale, Barnard earned a reputation…
ReadVietnam Veterans Against the War – Operation Dewey Canyon III On April 19, 1971, Vietnam veterans groups from Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford joined demonstrations in Washington, DC. Calling for…
Read…Easton, “a colored citizen of this city,” and his white companion from New Haven, Charles Boyle. But Easton and Boyle had completed their objective, “draping the figure of Justice upon…
Read…Connecticut General Assembly. To sponsor this monument and The Defenders’ Monument (1910) at New Haven, lawmakers expanded the role of the State Commission on Sculpture. This act made Connecticut the…
Read…belonging to the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad line. One of the episodes that did take place in Hartford concerned arson at the Hartford Alliance Loan Company (also…
ReadConstance Baker Motley (1921-2005) Constance Baker Motley was an attorney, and later, federal judge, who became a leading figure in the civil rights movement. Born in New Haven, she became…
Read…sanatoriums in Connecticut by 1930—one each in Hartford, Norwich, Shelton, and Meriden. Around 1905, Dr. Stephen J. Maher, head of Connecticut’s Tuberculosis Commission and a New Haven physician, campaigned to…
Read…of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway Company. Josiah Meigs Hubbard (served 1881–1896) was a rich farmer from one of the leading families of Middletown. He represented Middletown…
Read…Boston before making his home in New Haven and eventually in Stratford. He married Miriam Hawley and became a farmer and one of the town’s largest landowners after purchasing tracts…
Read…rail travel decreased, and competition arose from other amusement centers like Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport and Savin Rock in New Haven. By 1908, the company had dismantled Parlor Rock Park,…
Read…the Connecticut Journal, New Haven, Connecticut, November 25, 1817. There was an immense crowd gathered for the execution. Some of the spectators arrived in Danbury early in the morning, but…
Read…by carriages and wagons connected it to the mainland. Visitors arriving by train had the option of reaching the hotel either by carriage or by boat. Excursion steamboats from New…
Read…and authorized the committee to raise money to fund the tablet. At the 1916 Division Encampment at New Haven, the committee reported that they had raised half of the money…
Read…the outlying areas. Between 1945 and 1960 Connecticut’s cities, such as Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport, all lost population while suburbs like Bloomfield, Woodbridge, and Trumbull more than doubled their…
Read…and people running into the streets in Hartford, and a quake that some say sounded like “carriages crossing a bridge” struck New Haven around 10:45 pm on June 30, 1858….
Read…returned to Hartford at least twice in January 1957. By this time, the FBI and its local office in New Haven tracked and recorded his every move. Temple 14 moved…
Read…Sandburg was a regular contributor of news and poetry to the International Socialist Review (ISR) and other prominent liberal and radical magazines. With his work for the Chicago Daily News,…
Read…Center. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Lynch took to metalworking at an early age, heating a piece of pipe in the family furnace to make ice tongs at the…
Read…against the Real Estate commission in New Haven Federal District Court. The complaint, entitled the “Title VIII Open Housing Complaint,” argued that real estate insiders in the state of Connecticut…
Read…and Manitowese, nephew of Sow-Heage, who gave up the deed of New Haven. By commemorating Native Americans who signed deeds of land transference, they portray peaceful interactions between whites and…
Read…boosting the cities’ populations. More middle class professionals were drawn into the cities as well. Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, and Waterbury all saw drastic increases in their population. These newly…
Read…roll took place on March 19, 1955. Police halted a New Haven festival “when it seemed the dancers were getting out of hand.” Concert goers were all over 21 and…
Read…the Yale Bowl in New Haven while renovations took place at Yankee Stadium (their former home) and workers finished construction on Giants Stadium, (their future home). The arrangement was strictly…
ReadCollection: National Museum of American History Object: Patent Model for the Manufacture of Rubber Fabrics Maker: Charles Goodyear Place: New York, New York Date Made: 1844 On March 9, 1844,…
Read…to New Haven and found employment in the West India trade, traveling on numerous voyages before the War of 1812 brought an end to his commercial prosperity. Cheshire Politician Becomes…
Read…Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665…, showing the law against being a witch established in December, 1642. For its part,…
Read…a factory in Hamden, Connecticut, just north of New Haven (in an area that became known as Whitneyville), and began making thousands of interchangeable parts for his muskets. Progress was…
Read…the boards of the New Haven and Hartford symphonies. In addition, he served as acting manager for the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra before passing away in 1975 at the age of…
Read…by the demand for news among us.” Such dry wit would remain a hallmark of the publication, which later took its current name, Yale Daily News. Today, this student-produced publication…
Read…and $32,000 per year to the school. The lawsuit dragged out in U.S. circuit court, while Yale and Storrs supporters debated the question in the newspapers. The case went to…
ReadBy Elizabeth Correia When recalling the important role of air power during World War I, U.S. Navy Admiral William S. Sims once noted that “the great aircraft force which was…
Read…it for illicit activity. It also became a haven for mothers and children throughout the years of the cholera epidemic that hit New York City. Additionally, destruction caused by the…
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…of a third-party candidate—a Socialist with strong support from labor. On November 14, 1947, Cross cut a ribbon stretched across the highway near the North Haven–Wallingford line, opening the Hamden…
Read…East Haven. The independent town has been the foundation of Connecticut government from the arrival of the earliest English settlers. After the American Revolution the first United States Census was…
Read…at the State Arsenal. The new capitol building opened in January 1879. During the January session of the General Assembly, legislators passed House Joint Resolution No. 141 that stated: “Resolved…
Read…urban centers throughout Connecticut and New York during this time. Brick architecture remained in style throughout much of the early 20th century until the presence of new building materials, mainly…
Read…a town at all. A great example of this is Foxon, which is a community within the town of East Haven. The independent town has been the foundation of Connecticut…
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…
Read…not actually a town at all. A great example of this is Foxon, which is a community within the town of East Haven. The independent town has been the foundation…
Read…teams of workers in competition with one another. In addition, towns like Brooklyn and Danbury hosted annual fairs, which received visitors from all over New York and New England. Today,…
Read…migration of European immigrants into the state to feed these new factories’ need for manpower. The third was the rise and spread of cities across the Connecticut landscape. Within a…
Read…the Wits turned their sights on new targets, including the colonial government, King George III, and, most notably, colonial residents with loyalties to the British crown. They were hardly armchair…
Read…late 1990s). The family sold the house in 1971 and moved to nearby Bedford, New York, but Greenwich remained a Henson haven until the 1990s. Henson’s Later Years By 1976,…
Read…sporting spectacle grasped the American public’s interest and new, permanent frontons soon emerged in Chicago and New Orleans. More than half a century later, in the era before legalized casino…
Read…in Newbury, England. Captured and made a prisoner of war after crash landing in Normandy, Fowler made a remarkable escape and became a celebrity in his Connecticut hometown. Fowler Joins…
Read…all. A great example of this is Foxon, which is a community within the town of East Haven. The independent town has been the foundation of Connecticut government from the…
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