The Armenian genocide during the early 20th century had a profound impact on Armenian communities and their descendants in Connecticut.
ReadElihu Burritt, a blacksmith by trade, became an advocate for peace around the world throughout the 19th century.
ReadSince the late 19th century, Armenian immigrants and descendants have created a community and shaped New Britain history.
ReadHailed as the “Century Celebration,” the evening of December 31, 1900, saw revelry and reflection as individuals throughout the state welcomed the New Year.
ReadOn October 12, 1924, in New Britain, Connecticut, Gerald Chapman became America’s first “Public Enemy Number One.”
ReadAbraham Ribicoff rose from a New Britain tenement to become Connecticut’s first Jewish governor and a confidant of President John F. Kennedy.
ReadNew Britain, fondly known as the “Hardware City,” had numerous companies that contributed to modern industrialization.
ReadThe Underground Railroad, developed in the early 19th century, was a system of safe havens designed to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
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.
ReadOn December 8, 1810, Elihu Burritt was born in New Britain, Connecticut, to a farming family and became a leading pacifist of his time.
ReadThe Palmer Raids, launched in Connecticut in 1919, were part of the “Red Scare” paranoia that resulted in numerous civil rights violations committed by law enforcement officials.
ReadIn 1903 the Russell & Erwin Company and the American Hardware Corporation purchased the Bristol Motor Car Company of Bristol, Connecticut.
ReadA bustling ethnic neighborhood along Broad Street in New Britain is home to such a vibrant Polish population that it earned the nickname “Little Poland.”
ReadA native of New Britain, Walter Camp helped revolutionize the game of American football while a student and coach at Yale and for several years afterward.
ReadIn Connecticut, African Americans played organized baseball as early as 1868, some of the game’s biggest stars played for teams throughout the state.
ReadJoseph “Mad Dog” Taborsky earned his nickname for the brutal methods he employed robbing and murdering his victims.
ReadOn March 6, 1879, Elihu Burritt “the learned blacksmith” died in New Britain.
ReadEnfield’s Martha Parsons broke new ground in her pursuit of employment opportunities for women. Her family home now belongs to the Enfield Historical Society.
ReadPollution of Connecticut’s waters by industrial waste and sewage in the decades after the Civil War was arguably the state’s first modern environmental crisis.
ReadIn 1971, to eliminate the state’s budget deficit, Connecticut legislators approved a tax on income. Just forty-two days later, they repealed it, instead voting to increase the state’s sales tax.
ReadOn April 22, 1911, aviation pioneer Charles Hamilton crashed his brand new, all white, biplane the “Moth” at Andrews Field in New Britain.
ReadOn February 22, 1998, the first Jewish governor in Connecticut’s history, Abraham Ribicoff, died.
ReadCharles Keeney Hamilton completed the first round-trip journey ever made between two large cities in an airplane in the United States.
ReadFather Leonard Tartaglia was sometimes called Hartford’s “Hoodlum Priest.” Like the 1961 film of the same name, Tartaglia ministered to the city’s poor and disenfranchised.
ReadIn the early 20th century, New Britain produced a variety of housewares popular with the American public, including cutlery, toasters, waffle irons, pocketknives, food choppers, and eggbeaters.
ReadIn 1843, Frederick Stanley founded a small shop in New Britain to manufacture bolts, hinges, and other hardware products for sale to local residents.
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.
ReadThe P&F Corbin Company manufactured builders’ hardware, including hooks, sash fasteners, picture nails, locks, and knobs, and coffin trimmings.
ReadConnecticut’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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