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Laboring in the Shade
Thousands of black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut’s tobacco fields.
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Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace
The Climax Fuse Company manufactured safety fuse, a type of…
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Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to the President – Today in History: July 12
On July 12, 1918, Connecticut suffragists—men, women, and children—rallied in…
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John Fitch Born – Today in History: January 21
On January 21, 1743, John Fitch, an inventor and pioneer…
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The Tariffville Disaster – Today in History: January 14
On 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.
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Charles McLean Andrews and Evangeline Walker Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished historians of his time, generally recognized as the master of American colonial history.
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Gun Wheel of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers
The 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.
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19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all women who…
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Civil War Soldier Dies of Gangrene – Today in History: July 10
On July 10, 1864, Civil War soldier Curtis Bacon of…
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The Land of Nod Farm, East Canaan, Connecticut
The Land of Nod farm was an important agricultural and residential resource for both the people of Canaan and the workers at the Beckley furnace.
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Notorious New-Gate Prison
A failed Simsbury copper mine is now a national historic landmark in East Granby.
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Gifford Pinchot: Bridging Two Eras of National Conservation
“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.
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Over Time: Simsbury’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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The Steady Evolution of a Connecticut Family Business
The 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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