agriculture - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

Derby’s Osbornedale Farms, Frances Kellogg, and the Dairy Industry

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Jacques and Therese Makowsky and the Development of the Cornish Game Hen

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Oniontown: How Hard Work, Tall Tales, and Red Onions Built Wethersfield

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Jewish Farming Communities in Connecticut in the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Polish Tobacco Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley

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A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime

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Food Needed to Win the War Comes from Washington

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William Pinney Does It All for Ellington

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Goshen’s Animal Pound

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Establishing Roots in Oxford

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The Windsor Economy: A River Ran Through It

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Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote

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Enfield’s Shaker Legacy

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Cash Crop: L.B. Haas & Co. and the History of Tobacco in Connecticut

Brass City/Grass Roots: The Persistence of Farming in Waterbury, Connecticut

John Howard Hale: Glastonbury’s Peach King

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Barn Design in Connecticut

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Jared Eliot Calls on Colonists to Change their Agricultural Practices

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Shakers Revolutionize Garden Seed Business – Who Knew?

The Lebanon Grange Followed a Different Tune than National Movement

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Playing with Time: The Introduction of Daylight Saving Time in Connecticut

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Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape

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The Smith Sisters and Their Cows Strike a Blow for Equal Rights – Today in History: January 8

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Beechmont Dairy: Bridgeport’s Ice Cream to Die For

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The White Pine Acts – Who Knew?

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The First University of Connecticut Trustees

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The Land of Nod Farm, East Canaan, Connecticut

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The Great Danbury State Fair & Early 20th-Century Outdoor Advertising

David Humphreys, Soldier, Statesman, and Agricultural Innovator

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Andover’s Award-Winning Creamery

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Orange Seeds Yield Corn, Alfafa, Soy, and More

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Farming as Recycling: The Becces in the North End

Brass City/Grass Roots: Waterbury Farming in the Late 1800s

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Brass City/Grass Roots: From Farmers to Developers: The Rasmussens of Town Plot

Brass City/Grass Roots: The Pierponts of East Farms

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Struggles and Decline

Brass City/Grass Roots: Food Marketing and Processing as Part of Civic Culture

Brass City/Grass Roots: What Makes a Farm a Farm? Other Sites of Food Production in Waterbury

Brass City/Grass Roots: Remnants and Revivals

Brass City/Grass Roots: Bucks Hill: Waterbury’s Rural Holdout

The Rose King of America Transformed Cromwell’s Landscape

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The Yale-Storrs Controversy

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The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women’s Rights in Glastonbury

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    Molly May

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    Glastonbury

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Laboring in the Shade

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Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck

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The Danbury Fair, 1869-1981

Connecticut’s Mulberry Craze

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Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose

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Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death: 1816, The Year Without a Summer

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The Many Layers to Onion Farming in Westport

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A Connecticut Home That Dates Back to the 1600s!

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The Connecticut River

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Windsor Tobacco: Made in the Shade

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North Stonington Fairs Preserve Connecticut’s Agricultural Heritage

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Branding Law Enacted – Today in History: February 5

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1819-1865

Goshen Fairs Well with Agricultural Enthusiasts

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Raise a Glass to Winemaking in Connecticut

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    Amy Gagnon

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Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29

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A Fair to Remember in Brooklyn

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When Milk Powered Watertown’s Industry

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North Stonington: Shunock River and Local Ambitions Powered a 19th-century Mill Town

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    CTH Staff

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    North Stonington

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Time in Connecticut

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    Simsbury

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