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disaster - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Disaster on the Sound: The Collision of the Steamboats
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Narragansett
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Fuller Brush Tower Collapses – Today in History: March 31
Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir – Today in History: March 27
Civic Center Roof Collapses – Today in History: January 18
“Appalling Calamity”: Loss of the Steamboat Lexington – Today in History: January 13, 1840
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The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson
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Firefighters Answer the Call in Greenwich
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The Hurricane of 1938 Rocks Connecticut
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Hurricane Gloria: “Storm of the Century”
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Guilford’s One-Man Fire Department
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The Steady Evolution of a Connecticut Family Business
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Hartford Circus Fire: “The Tent’s on Fire!” – Who Knew?
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A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroad—and Lost
Aetna Helps Make Hartford “The Insurance Capital of the World”
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Frozen Reservoir Destroys Danbury – Today in History: January 31
The Surprising Prevalence of Earthquake Activity in Connecticut
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Colonel Augustus G. Hazard, Gunpowder Manufacturer – Who Knew?
Eighty-Five Hundred Souls: the 1918-1919 Flu Epidemic in Connecticut
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Byram River Flood – Today in History: October 15
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The Great Wallingford Tornado – Today in History: August 9
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Wallingford
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The White Mountain Express Derails in Greenwich
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Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck
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The Hartford Circus Fire – Today in History: July 6
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Greenwich Emergency Responders: On the Move Overtime
Aunt Polly and Its Preservation
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Learning about the Lusitania: How Hartford Heard the News
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The Collapse of the L’Ambiance Plaza
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Patrick J. Mahoney
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Bridgeport
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The Thimble Islands – Little Islands with a Big History
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Steamboat Accident – Today in History: March 29
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Waterbury Burns – Today in History: February 2
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G. Fox & Co. Destroyed by Fire – Today in History: January 29
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New Haven Coliseum Imploded – Today in History: January 20
The Flood That We Forget: October 15 and 16, 1955
The Steamboat New England: “The shock was dreadful” – Today in History: October 8
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The 1961 Hartford Hospital Fire
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The Great Hurricane of 1938 – Today in History: September 21
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Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace
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The Great Atlantic Hurricane Hits Connecticut
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Patrick J. Mahoney
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Bucket Brigade to the Rescue – Today in History: September 12
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Torrington Recovers after the Flood of ‘55
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Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death: 1816, The Year Without a Summer
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Fire Ravages Cos Cob School – Today in History: July 29
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The Greenwich Avenue Fires of 1908 and 1936 Sparked Upgrades to Town’s Emergency Services
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Deadly Fire at Gulliver’s – Today in History: June 30
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Misread Signal Leads to Deadly South Norwalk Train Wreck – Who Knew?
Hamilton Wrecks Aeroplane – Today in History: April 22
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy
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Today in History – Fales & Gray Explosion Underscores Need for a Hartford Hospital
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Fire and Ice: A Very Bad Week in 1914
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Park Central Hotel Boiler Explosion – Today in History: February 18
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Meriden Town Hall Burns Down – Today in History: February 14
Colt Armory Burns – Today in History: February 4
Six Cities Respond to 1902 Waterbury Fire – Who Knew?
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Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center
The Tariffville Disaster – Today in History: January 15
Hurricane of 1938: Connecticut’s Worst Disaster
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The Hartford Circus Fire
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Hard Times: Governor Wilbur Cross and the Great Depression in Connecticut
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Fire at Wesleyan’s North College – Today in History: March 1
Mianus River Bridge Collapses – Today in History: June 28
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Karen Frederick
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Greenwich
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Waterbury Tornado – Today in History: May 24
An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1965-Now
Blizzard of 1888 Devastates State
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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865
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Hurricanes Connie & Diane Deliver Double Hit – Who Knew?
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The Plainville Town Hall Catches Fire
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The Blizzard of 1888 – Today in History: March 11
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