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When Old Saybrook Was a College Town
Yale University traces its origins back to the Connecticut Colony’s…
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An Uncommonly Ingenious Mechanic: Abel Buell of Connecticut
This Yankee jack-of-all-trades created the first map of the new United States to be printed and published in America.
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Killingworth’s Automated Attraction – Who Knew?
…that in the 1890s Clark Coe created an attraction of…
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Jared Eliot Calls on Colonists to Change their Agricultural Practices
In 1760, this Killingworth minister and farmer published the first agricultural advice book in the British American colonies.
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A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots
Charles Morgan was a shipping and railroad magnate who earned…
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Over Time: Killingworth’s Historical Population
Census 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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Yale University from Colonial Times to the Present
Yale University has grown from the small “Collegiate School” founded in Saybrook in 1701 to one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
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