Hartford’s Marietta Canty House is primarily significant for its association with actress Marietta Canty, who received critical acclaim for her performances in theater, radio, motion pictures, and television as well as for her political and social activities.
ReadThe 1988 murder of Richard Reihl, a gay man from Wethersfield, galvanized and mobilized communities to organize and transform LGBTQ+ civil rights legislation in the state for decades to come.
ReadSmith’s account sheds light on the experience of enslaved and free blacks in 18th-century Connecticut.
ReadOn February 15, 1798, Roger Griswold, a US House Representative from Connecticut, attacked Matthew Lyon on the floor of the House of Representatives.
ReadA set of old Valentine’s Day cards, kept safe in a cloth-covered scrapbook, provide a look back at the sometimes humorous art of expressing heartfelt sentiments.
ReadAddie Brown and Rebecca Primus were two free Black women whose lives intersected in Hartford, Connecticut in the 19th century. Letters written between them imply their relationship was more than friendship.
ReadEdward Alexander Bouchet was a physicist who was among Yale’s first African American students, and reportedly became the first African American in the United States to earn a PhD.
ReadFrom 1927 to 1948, the Metropolitan District Commission built the Saville Dam and flooded the valley to create the Barkhamsted Reservoir, displacing over a thousand people.
ReadIn 1969, the Black Panther Trials brought national attention to New Haven as prosecutors charged members of the radical movement with murdering one of their own.
ReadBuilding a business on the back of an insect may seem foolish but for Manchester’s Cheney Brothers silk mill, it became the ticket to global success.
ReadThe simultaneous development of accepted mental health practices and LGBTQ+ visibility over the decades offers a chance to examine how psychological research contributed to the discrimination of LGBTQ+ individuals and communities.
ReadOn February 7, 1934, the Wadsworth Atheneum debuted the modernist opera Four Saints in Three Acts in its new Avery Memorial Theater.
ReadEvidence of early Native land use is etched into the landscape and preserved in oral tradition as well as the historical and archaeological records.
ReadThe Underground Railroad, developed in the early 19th century, was a system of safe havens designed to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
ReadBest known for the Lincoln Memorial, this architect also designed a railroad station, WWI monument, and a bridge for Naugatuck.
ReadEbenezer Bassett, an educator, activist, and associate of Frederick Douglass, served the US as its first African American ambassador.
ReadUriah Tracy was an attorney and politician who took up arms against the British after the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
ReadOn January 31, 1869, Danbury’s Kohanza Reservoir froze.
ReadFounded by Gerson Fox in 1848, G. Fox & Co. went on to become the nation’s largest privately owned department store.
ReadOn January 28, 1820, architect Ithiel Town was granted a patent for a wooden truss bridge, also known as Town’s Lattice Truss.
ReadWilliam Douglas was a successful merchant and military leader who settled in North Branford just prior to the Revolutionary War.
ReadIn 1830, a resourceful industrialist opened a button making shop in what today is the Northford section of North Branford.
ReadIn the 1820s, the first two notable carpetmakers emerged in the north central part of Connecticut—the Tariff Manufacturing Company and the Thompsonville Carpet Manufacturing Company.
ReadThis 19th-century reformer sought to promote harmonious social and civic behavior by revamping the US school system.
ReadIn the mid-1800s, manufacturers from Connecticut found new overseas markets for everything from clocks and firearms to lawn mowers and machetes.
ReadDespite the lack of good local clay, Norwich potteries flourished, turning out jugs, jars, crocks, pie plates, dishes, and other utilitarian objects.
ReadAshbel Woodward was a physician, historian, and farmer who spent most of his life serving the town of Franklin.
ReadAfter growing up in Hartford, Charles Dillingham explored numerous career paths including newspaper publishing, politics, and—most famously—theatrical managing and producing.
ReadColchester has a persistent myth that Hayward invented vulcanization—a process that helps make rubber useful for manufacturing—but did not receive the credit he deserved.
ReadConnecticut has experienced thousands of earthquakes since European settled the area, the most active site being the village of Moodus in East Haddam.
ReadWhile the rural economy of the North in the 18th century focused on local exchanges of goods within a community, Yankee peddlers used their mobility to bring finished products directly to the consumer.
ReadFrom the time the federal government first began issuing patents in 1790, Connecticut was a national leader in patenting its abundant innovations.
ReadHeneri Opukaha’ia (Anglicized as Henry Obookiah in his lifetime) of Hawaii was a student of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall.
ReadThe building of Andrus Field on the campus of Wesleyan University demonstrates changes made to the built environment to meet the changing needs of a local community.
ReadBy 1843, Augustus Hazard and partner Allan Denslow formed a joint stock venture called the Hazard Powder Company.
ReadBridgeport’s community radio station, WPKN, is still going strong after half a century, offering unique and eclectic programming.
ReadFrom jazz album covers to magazines and children’s books, Rowayton artist Jim Flora created works that helped document life in 20th-century America.
Read40% of all the gunpowder consumed in the Civil War came from Powder Hollow in Hazardville (a part of Enfield, Connecticut).
ReadWith its water power, its location, and proximity to major port cities, Norwich has been attracting gun manufacturers since the American Revolution.
ReadOn January 10, 1738, future hero of the Revolutionary War Ethan Allen was believed to have been born in the frontier village of Litchfield, Connecticut.
ReadDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries panoramic maps, also known as bird’s-eye views, were used to depict many of Connecticut’s town and cities.
ReadAbigail and Julia Smith of Glastonbury (along with Isabella Beecher Hooker) fought for a woman’s right to speak at town meetings and have a say in government.
ReadIn the 1930s, skiing became a popular pastime at Mohawk State Park in Cornwall and became famous for documenting the first artificial snow.
ReadIda Tarbell became one of the most famous “muckraking” journalists in 19th century America, thanks largely to her investigation of the Standard Oil Company.
ReadOn January 5, 1858, Waterbury native Ezra J. Warner invented the first US can opener.
ReadCharles Stratton, born in Bridgeport on January 4, 1838, toured the world with P. T. Barnum under the name, General Tom Thumb.
ReadSlavery remained in the Land of Steady Habits until 1848, and it was not quick to advance suffrage for African Americans, either.
ReadBy overcoming the limitation of distance, transportation makes possible the many economic and social interactions that allow a community, a people, an entire culture, to thrive
ReadElizabeth Terrill Bentley is best known for her role as an American spy for the Soviet Union—and for her defection to become a US informer.
ReadCitizens’ dedication on the battlefield and home front did not always signal agreement on key issues of the day.
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