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L.D. Brown and Son Silk Mill: A Staple in Middletown’s South Farms District

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Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy

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Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers

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Southington Cutlery Company: From Silverware to Hardware

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Two Cornwall Firms Part of Famed Salisbury Iron District

The Derby Silver Company

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Birth of the Brass Valley

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Willimantic’s American Thread Plant–A Multinational Corporate Takeover

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Hartford’s Industrial Day – Today in History: October 7

A Different “Type” of Connecticut Industry

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Connecticut Pin Makers

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Elastic Web Expands Textile Manufacturing in West Haven

Elisha Root Changes Industry – Who Knew?

Up from the Ashes: Fire at the Meriden Britannia Company – Today in History: July 16

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Weaving the Cultural Fabric of Beacon Falls

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World-renowned Maker of Axes: The Collins Company of Canton

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Connecticut Pocketknife Firms

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Samuel Colt: From Yankee Peddler to American Tycoon

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The Cheney Brothers’ Rise in the Silk Industry

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First Connecticut Carpet Mills Emerge in Simsbury and Enfield

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Colonel Augustus G. Hazard, Gunpowder Manufacturer – Who Knew?

Powder Hollow in Hazardville – Who Knew?

Wheeler & Wilson: A Stitchy Situation in Watertown

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A Baltic Mill Helps Found a New Town

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Child Labor in Connecticut

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Andover Looks Good on Paper

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The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in Bridgeport: The Case of Bryant Electric

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Bevin Brothers Helps Transform East Hampton into Belltown, USA

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Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace

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Intertwining Family Businesses

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Hartford’s Fuller Brush Company Goes Door-to-Door Across US

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy

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Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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Munitions Assembly Line 1943

The Industrial Revolution Comes to Jewett City

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Meriden’s Silver Lining

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Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?

The Colt Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1866-1887

Understanding the Environmental Effects of Industry by Examining the Starr Mill

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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation

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Charles Goodyear and the Vulcanization of Rubber

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A Bird’s-eye View of Moosup

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Textile Mills in Oxford Dominated Early Industry

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A Bird’s-eye View of Broad Brook

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Stanley Works for New Britain

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When Bozrah Provided Comfort to the Nation

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Thread Your Needle – Today in History: March 2

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Workers at the Colt Armory, Hartford 1867

Workers at the Eli Terry Clock Factory 1850

Armstrong Finds a Niche in the Tire Market

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Naugatuck’s Early Chemical Industry

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

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