On November 17, 1917, the J.B. Williams Company of Glastonbury…
ReadGwen Reed was an actress and educational advocate who grew…
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.
ReadThe late 1800s witnessed significant challenges to Connecticut’s voting and taxation laws.
ReadOn January 28, 1868, Amariah Hills of Hockanum, Connecticut, received…
ReadBy refusing to pay unfair taxes, these siblings became national symbols of discrimination suffered by women and of the struggle of the individual against government.
Read“He was a man of no decorations; … but he understood his duty and he did it efficiently, continually and unwaveringly,” said a contemporary of this Glastonbury-born leader.
ReadJohn Howard Hale came from a family of fruit growers in Glastonbury and developed a new type of peach that flourished in the harsh New England climate.
ReadCensus data, from colonial times on up to the present, is a key resource for those who study the ways in which communities change with the passage of time.
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