Thousands of black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut’s tobacco fields.
ReadThe Climax Fuse Company manufactured safety fuse, a type of…
ReadOn July 12, 1918, Connecticut suffragists—men, women, and children—rallied in…
ReadOn January 21, 1743, John Fitch, an inventor and pioneer…
ReadOn January 14, 1878, at about 10:00 in the evening, a span of the Tariffville Bridge gave way, plunging a Connecticut Western Railroad train into the Farmington River 20 feet below.
ReadCharles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished historians of his time, generally recognized as the master of American colonial history.
ReadThe First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers took part in numerous battles during the Civil War. A wheel damaged in battle now resides at the Connecticut State Capitol to commemorate the service of this unit.
ReadThe 19th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all women who…
ReadOn July 10, 1864, Civil War soldier Curtis Bacon of…
ReadThe Land of Nod farm was an important agricultural and residential resource for both the people of Canaan and the workers at the Beckley furnace.
ReadA failed Simsbury copper mine is now a national historic landmark in East Granby.
Read“The conservation of natural resources is the basis, and the only permanent basis, of national success,” wrote this Connecticut-born forester who oversaw the rapid expansion of national forest land holdings in the early 1900s.
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 product that helped build America’s railroads, mine her natural resources, expand the Panama Canal, and even blow up tree stumps in local farm fields harkens to a time when Simsbury and Avon were “fuse-making-mad.”
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