On March 29, 1876, the steamboat City of Hartford, of…
ReadNew Haven resident Dr. Mary Moody the first female graduate of the medical school at the University of Buffalo, and the first female member of the American Association of Anatomists.
ReadOn March 8, 1887, Everett Horton, a Bristol mechanic, patented a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.
ReadAddie Brown and Rebecca Primus were two free Black women whose lives intersected in Hartford, Connecticut in the 19th century. Letters written between them imply their relationship was more than friendship.
ReadOn January 4th 1899, George Edward Lounsbury was elected the…
ReadDenied the right to free assembly in public spaces, Connecticut workers joined in a larger national movement of civil disobedience.
ReadThomas R. Pickering, an engineer, ran a factory power plant…
ReadIn pursuit of silk thread, the state went crazy for mulberry trees.
ReadEmory Johnson, a farmer from Chatham, Connecticut, moved to East Haddam and operated one of the area’s most successful businesses of the late 19th century.
ReadOn the morning of August 8, 1886, on a walk through the Parker farm district of Wallingford, Edward Terrill and his dog uncovered what appeared to be a box of a dozen shoes that had recently fallen from a cart.
Read…that Hartford, famous as the Insurance Capital of the World,…
ReadIn what would later be described as “the first flight of a man-carrying dirigible in America,” aeronaut Mark Quinlan piloted a machine designed and patented by Charles F. Ritchel.
ReadSituated in Bushnell Park, the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch honors the more than 4,000 Hartford men who fought for the Union during the Civil War.
ReadWilliam Welch was a native of Norfolk, Connecticut, and one…
ReadAs cities switched from gas lamps to electric lighting, one observer noted that Hartford was “far in the lead of any other city in the world in the use of electricity for light and power per capita.”
ReadOn March 27, 1877, the Staffordville Reservoir Company’s dam burst,…
ReadThe first municipal electric plant in Connecticut began operating in the City of South Norwalk in 1892 to provide low-cost electricity for street lighting and, a few years later, for homes and businesses.
ReadOn March 24, 1879, Marjorie Gray became Connecticut’s first female…
ReadOn March 20, 1889, the Old Leatherman, so called for…
ReadLydia Sherman confessed to killing three husbands and four children, but it is believed that the total number of her victims may be much higher.
ReadBest remembered for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” this Hartford author’s larger legacy is a life dedicated to women’s issues and social reform.
ReadIn the pre-dawn hours of February 18, 1889, the Park Central Hotel in Hartford was ripped apart by a steam boiler explosion.
ReadCharles Ethan Porter was a prolific still life painter in…
ReadOn January 28, 1878, the Boardman Building in New Haven…
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.
ReadWhen John and Elisha Stevens formed the J & E…
ReadIn all, 120 Chinese students came to live and study in New England. When they returned home, they served as diplomats, engineers, naval officers, physicians, educators, administrators, and magistrates.
ReadImmigration to Connecticut in the second half of the 19th…
ReadThe Briggs Manufacturing Company was the premier employer in Voluntown,…
ReadStarted in 1886 by town residents, the Andover Creamery Corporation…
ReadIvoryton and Deep River boomed in the 1800s, along with the demand for piano parts made of ivory.
ReadIn the early 1870s, Wilbur J. Squire (1837-1890) built his…
ReadOn April 7, 1891, P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum died…
ReadOn January 28, 1878, the first edition of the Yale…
ReadConnecticut’s ancient system of town-based representation ensured the continuation of small town values and perspectives.
ReadStimulated by immigration and industrialization, Connecticut cities expanded rapidly
ReadConnecticut saw its population of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe swell in the last decades of the 19th century.
ReadThe late 1800s witnessed significant challenges to Connecticut’s voting and taxation laws.
ReadIn 1873, the legislature began to look more closely at the problems of Connecticut’s workers.
ReadAfter the Civil War, arms manufacturing kept Connecticut industries busy, but an economic depression in the 1870s drastically changed things.
ReadIn the years following the Civil War, Connecticut’s transformation to an urban, industrial state intensified.
ReadOn January 28, 1878, the first edition of the Yale…
ReadHartford native Dwight Tryon njoyed a long, successful career as a landscape painter and teacher with studios in New York City and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
ReadThe CPTV Original, When Disaster Struck Connecticut, provides an in-depth look at the four major natural disasters that befell Connecticut between 1888 and 1955. This clip of archival sources and eyewitness accounts paints a vivid picture of how Connecticut residents coped with the monumental storm that hit New England in March of 1888. King Blizzard delivered 20 to 50 inches of snow with drifts of up to 20 feet.
ReadAn unexpected and deadly March storm, stretching from Washington, DC, to the Canadian border, buried Connecticut in as much as 50 inches of snow.
ReadDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries panoramic or…
ReadOn August 11, 1896, Bridgeport inventor and industrialist Harvey Hubbell patented…
ReadA crowd of some 25,000 to 30,000 people turned out to see John R. Gentry compete for a $6,000 purse.
ReadFrank Duryea was a long-time Madison resident who helped develop…
ReadThe lower perspective of this 1882 example is somewhat atypical of most of the bird’s-eye views of the era, but its emphasis on industrial accomplishment is a hallmark of the genre.
ReadPanoramic prints of growing cities and towns became popular in the late 1800s as Connecticut transformed from an agricultural to an industrial state.
ReadThis depiction of a Quinebaug Valley town and its satellite communities—Uniondale and Almyville—records an idealized view of the 19th-century textile boom.
ReadCurtis Veeder, born in Pennsylvania, was a machinist with a knack for invention. An avid cyclist, he patented a bicycle seat he sold to the Pope Company, and later invented a cyclometer for measuring distances traveled by bicycles.
ReadWhen the United States Coast Survey set out to compile detailed charts of New Haven Harbor in the 1870s, they hired recent graduates of Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School as assistants.
ReadHow the 19th-century cycling craze led to improved roads and paved the way for future federal highway construction.
ReadAs bird’s-eye view maps declined in popularity during the early 20th century, artists incorporated technical advances in hopes of reversing the trend.
ReadIn 1880, East Haddam was already a popular tourist destination and, despite its small size, boasted two steamboat landings to accommodate visitors.
ReadIn 1894, a well-to-do Norwich family set sail from New London on a ship outfitted with Persian rugs, oil paintings, a library with hundreds of titles, and 75 cases of champagne.
ReadAn entrepreneur’s design for a lighter-than-air vehicle takes flight in the late 1800s and inspires a new state industry.
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