Because so many men enlisted in the military during WWII, women were recruited to take their places in the all-important factory jobs that kept the forces abroad supplied.
ReadHoratio Wright commanded troops in Civil War battles fought all over the country, from Virginia to Florida, and out West as far as Ohio.
ReadIn 1926, at the age of 53, Connecticut governor John H. Trumbull received his pilot’s license. Piloting flights to his own appointments, he became known as “The Flying Governor.”
ReadAt 2 pm on March 2, 1854, the power of steam incorrectly managed and harnessed wreaked havoc at the railroad-car factory Fales & Gray Car Works in Hartford.
ReadThe history of Wesleyan’s library system includes a debate that reveals how values associated with the environment in the early 1900s helped shape the campus’s development.
ReadOn February 29, 1960, noted wildlife illustrator Rex Brasher died.
ReadWhile residents of Andover and other nearby towns enjoy the property’s 159 acres, Andover Lake played in challenging racial boundaries during the Civil Rights Era.
ReadBridgeport, by a special act of the state’s General Assembly in October 1800, became the first borough created in Connecticut.
ReadOn February 25, 1836, Samuel Colt received a patent for a “revolving gun” US patent number 138, later known as 9430X.
ReadOn February 22, 1998, the first Jewish governor in Connecticut’s history, Abraham Ribicoff, died.
ReadHartford’s Union Station and Allyn Hall caught fire on two different days in February. Only one still stands today.
ReadBefore becoming a part of Silver Sands State Park, Milford’s Charles Island served as everything from a luxury resort to the home of a fertilizer factory.
ReadIn the pre-dawn hours of February 18, 1889, the Park Central Hotel in Hartford was ripped apart by a steam boiler explosion.
ReadJustus Vinton was a missionary and humanitarian dedicated to spreading the Baptist religion around the world.
ReadChauncey Fitch Cleveland was a lawyer and politician who served the state of Connecticut and the nation, despite never pursuing a college education.
ReadNew Haven’s Josiah Willard Gibbs laid the groundwork for the development of physical chemistry as a science.
ReadOn February 14, 1904, Meriden’s town hall burned to the ground due to a fire that lasted eight hours.
ReadHartford’s first major redevelopment project, Constitution Plaza was built as part of the urban renewal initiatives in the 1950s and ’60s.
ReadThe building of I-84 and I-91 may have increased interstate transportation, but city planners and special interest groups continue to grapple with the legacy of these projects.
ReadOn February 10, 2005, the award-winning American playwright Arthur Asher Miller died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, of congestive heart failure.
ReadHe was rich, handsome and famous, she was considered a great beauty and their wedding was front page news around the nation.
ReadResidents of Hebron rescued local enslaved people Lowis and Cesar Peters, and their children, from South Carolina slave traders.
ReadAfter studying to become a lawyer, Eli Whitney actually helped further American industrial production methods through his numerous clever inventions.
ReadOn February 4, 1864, most of Colt’s East Armory, located in Hartford, burned to the ground.
ReadAn unusual murder of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, priest in 1924 inspired the movie, Boomerang!, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 1947.
ReadPersistent segregation is the historic legacy of steering and blockbusting, two discriminatory tactics that played a role in shaping suburban neighborhoods.
ReadA fire, which swept through Waterbury on a stormy February evening in 1902, would become the worst in its recorded history up to that point.
ReadJames Mars became one of the most prominent African Americans in the region, and a leader of Hartford’s African American community.
Read1960’s photographs from The Hartford Times offer a look back at a decade of protest that focused local and national attention on the civil rights of African Americans, the war in Vietnam, and the inequalities facing women.
ReadIn 1783, Connecticut became the first state to pass a general colonial copyright law, entitled “An Act for the Encouragement of Literature and Genius.”
ReadOn January 28, 1878, the Boardman Building became the site of the world’s first commercial telephone exchange, the District Telephone Company of New Haven.
ReadThis intrepid voyager, one of the most adventurous figures in Connecticut’s long history, would have made a great fictional character had he not been real.
ReadChurch bells chimed and factory whistles blew and automobiles, trains, and trolleys throughout the state came to a standstill.
ReadOn January 21, 1743, John Fitch, an inventor and pioneer in steamboat construction, was born in Windsor–a settlement in the British colony of Connecticut.
ReadFrom scant evidence, including a portrait, gravestone, census data, and will, a partial image of a Connecticut life lived in slavery emerges.
ReadIn the early morning of January 18, 1978, the roof of the sports coliseum collapsed onto 10,000 empty stadium seats.
ReadOn January 14, 1878, at about 10:00 p.m., a span of the Tariffville Bridge gave way, plunging a Connecticut Western Railroad train into the Farmington River.
ReadThe site of earlier mills, Jewett City seemed well-suited to the Tibbets’ textile enterprise: the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company.
ReadThis Yankee jack-of-all-trades, Abel Buell, created the first map of the new United States to be printed and published in America.
ReadBy the Civil War’s end, Connecticut had supplied 43% of the total of all rifle muskets, breech loading rifles and carbines, and revolvers bought by the War Department.
ReadOn January 5, 1854, Hartford voters approved spending over $100,000 in public funds for land that would become a municipal park.
ReadConnecticut enacted gradual emancipation in 1784 but the abolition of slavery would not occur until 1848.
ReadJupiter 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 Cries”, was published.
ReadThe Reverend Joseph Bellamy was a dynamic preacher, author, and educator during the 18th century and a long-time resident of Bethlehem, Connecticut.
ReadThe unique ridge that runs east-west just six miles north of New Haven is known as “Sleeping Giant” for its resemblance (from a distance) to a recumbent person.
ReadConnecticut instituted a Poor Law in the 17th century to comply with a directive from the British government that the colony ensure for the care of the poor within its borders
ReadCharles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished historians of his time, generally recognized as the master of American colonial history.
ReadAs a member of the War Council, Leila T. Alexander served on several Council committees including education, employment, advisory, social service, and welfare.
ReadConnecticut’s early railroad history had at its core the goal of linking New York City and Boston through a hybrid system of steamboats and trains.
ReadCalled the “greatest mobilization of police in the city’s history,” the event that brought law enforcement out in force to Keney Park was not a riot, not a strike, but a concert by this singer-actor and activist.
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