Railroads - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson

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Establishing Roots in Oxford

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Trumbull’s Parlor Rock Park: A Premier Amusement Center of the Late 19th Century

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Women of the Prison Brigade

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A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroad—and Lost

Overland Travel in Connecticut, from Footpaths to Interstates

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    Richard

  • Town(s):
    DeLuca

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Lisbon Tunnel Completed – Today in History: August 28

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Rails and Paper Trails

Connecticut Valley Railroad’s First Train – Today in History: July 29

The White Mountain Express Derails in Greenwich

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The Path to Ashford’s Progress

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Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck

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Summer Crowds Flocked to New Canaan and Stayed

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Thomas Hall’s Electric Block Railroad Signal – Today in History: June 7

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Collis P. Huntington: The Boy from Poverty Hollow

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New London’s Ferries: A Transportation Tradition

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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865

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Steam Railroads Transform Connecticut Travel and Commerce

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Branford’s History Is Set in Stone

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Cornelius Bushnell and His Ironclad Ship

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Misread Signal Leads to Deadly South Norwalk Train Wreck – Who Knew?

The Tariffville Disaster – Today in History: January 15

Iron and Water: The Norwich & Worcester Railroad Story

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Video – William Gillette’s Railroad

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Combined Rail-and-Water System Makes Norwich a Key Travel Hub in Mid-1800s

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A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots

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

  • Writer:
    CTH Staff

  • Town(s):
    North Stonington

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