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Factories - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
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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