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A Bird’s-eye View of East Haddam
In 1880, East Haddam was already a popular tourist destination and, despite its small size, boasted two steamboat landings to accommodate visitors.
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Slater Memorial Museum
Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.
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Site Lines: Silas Deane
Despite Deane’s role in securing French supplies and support for the American Revolution, his accomplishments have long been obscured by whispers of treason, a spy’s double-dealing, and his own sudden death.
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Mark Twain House
Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Lebanon Green
Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.
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Video – Hidden History: Old Hartford State House
Your Town’s History in Video: Old Hartford State House
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: New Britian Museum of American Art
Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Mattatuck Museum
Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.
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Video – Hidden History: Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
Your Town’s History in Video: Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
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The Windsor Economy: A River Ran Through It
Windsor’s location on the Connecticut River shaped the area’s development…
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Video – When Disaster Struck: The 1938 Hurricane, Part 2
The CPTV Original, When Disaster Struck Connecticut, provides an in-depth look at the four major natural disasters that befell Connecticut between 1888 and 1955. This clip of archival sources and eyewitness accounts paints a vivid picture of how Connecticut residents coped with the 1938 Hurricane.
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Connecticut’s Oldest English Settlement
In 1633, Windsor became Connecticut’s first English settlement. This was…
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Early Turnpikes Provided Solution to Lack of Reliable Roads
Although few of the privately managed toll-roads of the 1800s proved profitable for investors, state commerce benefited in the long run.
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Salisbury Iron Forged Early Industry
Connecticut’s bucolic northwest corner, with its Taconic Range, Berkshire Hills, and pastoral valleys, harbored a major iron industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Elisha Root Changes Industry – Who Knew?
…that Elisha Root invented die casting that revolutionized the mechanization…
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Video – Hidden History: Hartford’s Ancient Burial Ground
Your Town’s History in Video: Hartford’s Ancient Burial Ground
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Video – Hidden History: Connecticut Historical Society
Your Town’s History in Video: Connecticut Historical Society
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Amasa Goodyear and Son Re-Invent Naugatuck
Amasa Goodyear was an inventor, manufacturer, merchant, and farmer. Born…
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