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Connecticut’s Valley Forge: The Redding Encampment and Putnam Memorial State Park

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Connecticut Discovered Lyme Disease – Who Knew?

Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir – Today in History: March 27

The Socially Dynamic Drumlin of Foss Hill

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Blizzard Halts Mail Delivery – Today in History: February 7

The Van Vleck Observatory: A Reflection of Environmental Conditions

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A Beautiful and Goodly Tree: The Rise and Fall of the American Elm

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Bird’s-eye Views Offer Idealized Portraits of Progress

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Middletown’s Reservoirs Drive Growth Throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries

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The Story of Connecticut’s Largest State Forest

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Why Was New Haven Divided into Nine Squares?

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“A Noble and Precious Life”: Edgar M. Woodford, Civil Engineer, Abolitionist, and Soldier

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Connecticut Yankee Brings Power to the People

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Morton Biskind Warned the World About DDT

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Peter’s Rock: North Haven History with a View

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Discovered Dinosaur Tracks Re-Route Highway and Lead to State Park

  • Writer:
    Owen Rogers

  • Town(s):
    Rocky Hill

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Putting History on the Map

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Alain and May White Memorial Boulder

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Talcott Mountain: A View of Early New England

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Preserving Connecticut’s Natural Beauty: Connecticut’s First State Parks

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Saving Sessions Woods

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Oldest Rose Garden – Who Knew?

Andover to Woodstock: How Connecticut Ended Up with 169 Towns

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    Diana Ross McCain

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Surveying Connecticut’s Borders

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Farmington’s Hospital Rock Dates Back to 18th-Century Smallpox Inoculation

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Portland Puts Its Stamp on an Architectural Era

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Arbor Day’s Roots in Connecticut – Who Knew?

The Park Movement in Hartford

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Mad about Shad: Connecticut’s Love Affair with an Oily Fish

The Industrial Might of Connecticut Pegmatite

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A Valley Flooded to Slake the Capital Region’s Thirst

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Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape

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The Surprising Prevalence of Earthquake Activity in Connecticut

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Andrus Field 1831–1911: Athletics and the Environment

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Mohawk Mountain Made Snow for Winter Sports Lovers – Who Knew?

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The White Pine Acts – Who Knew?

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Old Saybrook Faces Down Threats to Its Water Supply

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Byram River Flood – Today in History: October 15

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Reckoning with the Dutch: the Treaty of Hartford, 1650

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1938 Hurricane Fuels Charcoal Business – Who Knew?

The Charter Oak Fell – Today in History: August 21

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Lake Pocotopaug Shapes the Growth of East Hampton

Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education

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Creating Candlewood Lake – Today in History: July 15

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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: Remnants and Revivals

Continuity and Change along the Eightmile River

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Elizabeth Park’s Rose Garden: June is Busting Out All Over

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Providing Rest for the Weary in Barkhamsted

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Gifford Pinchot: Bridging Two Eras of National Conservation

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Litchfield’s Revolutionary War Soldiers’ Tree

The Thimble Islands – Little Islands with a Big History

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Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power

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Rivers of Outrage

Barkhamsted Reservoir Construction Washes Away a Community

Mr. & Mrs. Rockwell’s Park

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The Connecticut Valley Authority That Never Was

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The Battle for Cockenoe Island

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Seth Pease Surveys New Lands

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The Steamboat New England: “The shock was dreadful” – Today in History: October 8

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The Colvocoresses Oak

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Connecticut’s Mulberry Craze

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Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose

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Oystering in Connecticut, from Colonial Times to the 21st Century

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    Doe Boyle

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The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream

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

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Pope Park – Yesterday and Today

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An American Heritage River – Today in History: July 27

Weir Farm the Result of a Trade – Who Knew?

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Hammonasset State Park Serves the State and its Residents

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New Connecticut on Lake Erie: Connecticut’s Western Reserve

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An Eccentric Middletown Polymath and Fossil Collector: Dr. Joseph Barratt

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Largest Earthquake in Connecticut – Today in History: May 16

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The Connecticut River

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A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Mabel Osgood Wright

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Olin Library and The Debate About Open Space at Wesleyan University

  • Writer:
    Colin O'Keefe

  • Town(s):
    Middletown

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A Good Spot and a Healthy Place: A Short History of Charles Island

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A Volcanic Giant Sleeps in Hamden

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Map – Bird’s-eye View of Ansonia, 1875

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Hidden Nearby: Two Monuments to Sportsmen at Housatonic Meadows State Park

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Understanding the Environmental Effects of Industry by Examining the Starr Mill

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Overland Travel in Connecticut, from Footpaths to Interstates

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    Richard

  • Town(s):
    DeLuca

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Raise a Glass to Winemaking in Connecticut

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    Amy Gagnon

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A Bird’s-eye View of Moosup

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Hurricanes Connie & Diane Deliver Double Hit – Who Knew?

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A Bird’s-eye View of Broad Brook

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A Public Responsibility: Conservation and Development in the 20th Century

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Dynamic Tensions: Conservation and Development up to the 1920s

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    Leah S. Glaser

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Abundant Wildlife Drives the History of Rocky Neck State Park

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A Tale of Shad, the State Fish

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Hidden Nearby: Camp Columbia State Park in Morris

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Hidden Nearby: Jedediah Strong’s Milestone

The Constitution Oak

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Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven

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Norwich in Perspective

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Bird’s-eye Views of Rockville Chart Textile Industry’s Growth

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A Bird’s-eye View of East Haddam

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    Kate Steinway

  • Town(s):
    East Haddam

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Artist Roger Tory Peterson, a Champion for the Natural World

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Windsor Engineers Success

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