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An illustration from A Sketch of the life, trial, and execution of Oliver Watkins

Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions

August 15, 2021 • Brooklyn, Surprise, Crime and Punishment, Everyday Life, Law

Brooklyn’s status as county seat in 1831 resulted in the…

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Steam tugboat J. W. Coultston, ca.1890s

The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream

August 25, 2020 • Surprise, Business and Industry, Environment, Transportation

Highway. Barrier. Resource. Sewer. Over the centuries each of these names has been used to describe one of the defining feature’s of the state’s landscape.

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New York and New Haven Railroad train bound from Manhattan

Misread Signal Leads to Deadly South Norwalk Train Wreck – Who Knew?

May 6, 2020 • Surprise, Disaster, Norwalk, Transportation, Who Knew?

…that by 1853, the era of steamboat transportation had largely…

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A Successful Lawyer and Politician Who Never Went to College

February 16, 2020 • Surprise, Hampton, Politics and Government, Slavery and Abolition

Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was a lawyer and politician who served…

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U.S. Frigate Constitution, Isaac Hull, Esqr., commander

Fame and Infamy for the Hulls of Derby

August 16, 2019 • Revolution and the New Nation 1754-1820s, Derby, Surprise, Politics and Government, War and Defense, War of 1812

Two Connecticut men, uncle and nephew, had starring roles—one in defeat and one in victory—during the War of 1812.

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Am I not a man and a brother?

Early Anti-slavery Advocates in 18th-century Connecticut

February 8, 2015 • Revolution and the New Nation 1754-1820s, Timothy Dwight, Surprise, Law, Politics and Government, Slavery and Abolition, Social Movements

Ideals advanced during the American Revolution inspired many of the state’s religious and political leaders to question and oppose slavery in the late 1700s.

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