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Connecticut History Day 2026: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History

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    CTH Staff

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The Battle of Ridgefield, 1777

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    Sally Sanders

  • Town(s):
    Ridgefield

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Lewis Sprague Mills and The Story of Connecticut

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    Diane Dolbashian

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Connecticut’s Constitution of 1965

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    Misa Giroux

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Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824 Tour of Connecticut

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Nathaniel Lyon: First US General to Die During the Civil War

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    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Eastford

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M. Jodi Rell: Connecticut’s 87th Governor

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    Khalil Quotap

  • Town(s):
    Brookfield

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Connecticut State Seal and Arms

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    Michael Kemezis

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Charles W. Morgan: New England’s Last Surviving Wooden Whaling Ship

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    Matt Belden

  • Town(s):
    Stonington

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Edward Hopkins: Connecticut’s 2nd Governor

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    Michael Kemezis

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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New London’s Hygienic Art Building

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    Vincent Scarano

  • Town(s):
    New London

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Martha Minerva Franklin: Breaking Barriers for Black Nurses

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Meriden, New Haven, New Milford

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“Legalized Piracy”: Connecticut’s Revolutionary War Privateers

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    Bryna O’Sullivan

  • Town(s):
    New Haven, New London, Norwich, Wethersfield

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The Explosion of the Redding Baptist Meeting House

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    Alec Lurie

  • Town(s):
    Redding

Larry Kramer: Gay Rights and HIV/AIDS Activism

  • Writer:
    Sharon L. Cohen

  • Town(s):
    Bridgeport, New Haven

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Ethel Collins Dunham: Pioneer in Pediatrics

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Hartford, New Haven

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Middletown’s Arrawanna Bridge

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    Kelly Marino

  • Town(s):
    Middletown

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Jonathan Trumbull’s Lebanon War Office: The “Pentagon of the Revolution”

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Lebanon

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Sarah Harris Fayerweather

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Canterbury, New London

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Philip Johnson’s Glass House

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Thankful Arnold’s House

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Battle of Goshen Point

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Navigating Connecticut Safely: The Green Book’s Role in African American Travel

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The Henry Whitfield House

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Ridgefield’s Keeler Tavern

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Connecticut’s Valley Forge: The Redding Encampment and Putnam Memorial State Park

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New England Society for Psychic Research: Connecticut Paranormal Investigators Leave Legacy of the Occult

Woodstock’s Roseland Cottage

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The Orrin Freeman House and the Spirit of ‘76

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    Alex Gerrish

  • Town(s):
    Haddam

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L.D. Brown and Son Silk Mill: A Staple in Middletown’s South Farms District

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    Kelly Marino

  • Town(s):
    Middletown

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Abigail Hinman: Heroine of the American Revolution or Legend?

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Middletown’s Beman Triangle: A Testament to Black Freedom and Resilience

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    Jesse Nasta

  • Town(s):
    Middletown

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Rosa Ponselle: Meriden’s Famous Musical Daughter

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Hebron’s Josephine Sophia (White) Griffing and a Vision for Post-Emancipation America

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Thomas Short – Connecticut’s First Official Printer

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John Warner Barber’s Engravings Chronicle Connecticut History

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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Connecticut Issues Same-Sex Marriage Licenses for the First Time – Today In History: November 12

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Charlton Publications: Song Lyric Printing Business to Major Player in the Comic Book Industry

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Linonian and Brothers in Unity: The Societies that Built Yale University’s Library

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Early Connecticut Gas Light Companies

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Connecticut College for Women: The State’s First All-Female Institution of Higher Learning

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Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy

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New London’s Tradition of Burning Benedict Arnold…in Effigy – Who Knew?

Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership

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Black Loyalist Refugees: Toney Escapes During the Burning of Fairfield

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Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers

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Miss Porter’s School in Farmington

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Derby’s Osbornedale Farms, Frances Kellogg, and the Dairy Industry

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“Girl Pilot”: Mary Goodrich Jenson Breaks Barriers in Aviation and Journalism

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Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White: “No Picture Was Unimportant to Her”

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Jacques and Therese Makowsky and the Development of the Cornish Game Hen

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Oniontown: How Hard Work, Tall Tales, and Red Onions Built Wethersfield

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Cornfield Point: Old Saybrook’s Forgotten Scenic Alcove

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Jewish Farming Communities in Connecticut in the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Disaster on the Sound: The Collision of the Steamboats Stonington and Narragansett

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Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield’s World-Famous Bonnet Maker

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Alan L. Hart: Pioneer in Medicine and Transgender History

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The Amos Bull House and Sterling Opera House: The First Connecticut Listings on the National Register of Historic Places – Who Knew?

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    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Derby, Hartford

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Derby Day on the Housatonic

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Connecticut Discovered Lyme Disease – Who Knew?

Connecticut’s First Roman Catholic Church

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Connecticut and the Armenian Genocide

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Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Wilton

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James Merrill: Connecticut’s First Poet Laureate

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Stonington

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Banner Lodge: A Vacation Playground for an Excluded Population

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    Nancy Finlay

  • Town(s):
    East Haddam

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Polish Tobacco Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley

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George Laurence Nelson: Artist of Kent’s Seven Hearths

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Alice Hamilton: The Nation’s Leading Expert on Industrial Diseases

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The Welcoming Warmth of Kent’s Seven Hearths

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Connecticut’s French Connections

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The Road to Busytown: Richard Scarry’s Life in Fairfield County

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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Captures the Gilded Age in Norwalk

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Southington Cutlery Company: From Silverware to Hardware

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The Sea in their Blood: The Portuguese in New London County

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Discovering the Mysterious Identity of the “Kent Limner”

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Sarah Boone: First Connecticut Black Woman to Receive Patent

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Alexander Calder and Making Art Political

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New London Harbor Lighthouse: Connecticut’s First Official Lighthouse

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Yukitaka Osaki and Gillette Castle: One of Hadlyme’s First Japanese Immigrants

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Building an Armenian Community in New Britain

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The Ives Manufacturing Company: Connecticut’s Foremost Toy Maker

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Lemuel Haynes: America’s First Black Ordained Minister

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    Alex Gerrish

  • Town(s):
    Bloomingfield, Torrington, West Hartford

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Peter Prudden: Milford’s First Minister

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They Also Served: Chinese, Southeast Asians, and Hawaiians in the American Civil War

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Africans in Search of the American Dream: Cape Verdean Whalers and Sealers

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Willimantic’s American Thread Plant–A Multinational Corporate Takeover

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The Stamford Foundry Company Made Notable Stoves

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The “Welcoming Beacon” of Sheffield Island Lighthouse

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Colonel Ruth A. Lucas: Literary Advocate

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Laura Wheeler Waring: Renowned African American Portrait Artist and Educator

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The Merger That Was Not Meant To Be: Yale University and Vassar College

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Children of the Reconcentrados: Caroline Selden’s Cuban School

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Eighteen Years in the Making: Connecticut’s 1991 Gay Rights Law

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Birthplace of the Gerber Baby – Who Knew?

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Helen James Chisholm: A Hartford Teacher in Hawaii

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Connecticut’s Official State Flag – Who Knew?

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Trumbull’s Parlor Rock Park: A Premier Amusement Center of the Late 19th Century

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At the Sign of the Yellow Dragon: Hartford’s First Chinese Restaurants

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Rewriting the Norm: How Two East Haddam Women Revolutionized Nonsexist Language

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Connecticut’s First Mutual Savings Bank Opens in Hartford

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The Connecticut Houses that Ended Up in Massachusetts

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Lee’s Academy: An Icon of Education for 200 Years

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Moses Wheeler: Legendary Housatonic Ferryman

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Maritime History: The Founding of the United States Coast Guard Academy

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Emmeline Pankhurst’s “Freedom or Death” Speech Energizes Connecticut Women in 1913

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Brass City/Grass Roots: The Persistence of Farming in Waterbury, Connecticut

Julian Alden Weir: The “Heart” of American Impressionism

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Connecticut’s First Known Juneteenth Celebration in Norwich – Who Knew?

WDRC AM/FM – Connecticut’s Oldest Commercial Radio Station

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Kalos Society: Connecticut’s First Modern LGBTQ+ Activist Organization

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    Eve Galanis

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Ann Petry: Old Saybrook’s Bestselling African American Author

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    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Old Saybrook

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The Incident of the Stonington Schooner ‘Breakwater’: A View from Indian Country

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    Jason Mancini

  • Town(s):
    Stonington

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Canon Clinton Jones: A Revolutionary Figure in Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ History

  • Writer:
    Eve Galanis

  • Town(s):
    Brookfield, Hartford, Manchester

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Arbor Day’s Roots in Connecticut – Who Knew?

Edith Watson: Camera Artist

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George Griffin: “Devoted Friend” to Samuel Clemens

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Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak

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The Reader’s Feast: A Bookstore Ahead of Its Time

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Mary Townsend Seymour: Hartford’s Organizer, Activist, and Suffragist

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    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Connecticut’s Only US President – Who Knew?

Richard Reihl: The Hate Crime That Became a Turning Point for LGBTQ+ Civil Rights

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LGBTQ+ Mental Health Treatment in the 20th Century

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First Connecticut Carpet Mills Emerge in Simsbury and Enfield

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Hartford’s Charles Dillingham Discovered Broadway Stars

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Rubber Vulcanization and the Myth of Nathaniel Hayward

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Bridgeport’s WPKN: Going Strong After Half a Century

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Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford

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Beechmont Dairy: Bridgeport’s Ice Cream to Die For

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The First University of Connecticut Trustees

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Caleb Brewster: A Patriot Against Freedom

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Waterbury Farming in the Late 1800s

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Farming as Recycling: The Becces in the North End

Brass City/Grass Roots: From Farmers to Developers: The Rasmussens of Town Plot

Brass City/Grass Roots: The Pierponts of East Farms

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Struggles and Decline

Brass City/Grass Roots: Food Marketing and Processing as Part of Civic Culture

Brass City/Grass Roots: What Makes a Farm a Farm? Other Sites of Food Production in Waterbury

Brass City/Grass Roots: Remnants and Revivals

Brass City/Grass Roots: Bucks Hill: Waterbury’s Rural Holdout

Connecticut Patents

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