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Middletown’s Arrawanna Bridge

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    Middletown

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Navigating Connecticut Safely: The Green Book’s Role in African American Travel

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“Girl Pilot”: Mary Goodrich Jenson Breaks Barriers in Aviation and Journalism

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Disaster on the Sound: The Collision of the Steamboats Stonington and Narragansett

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A Revolution in Horse Power: The Hartford & Wethersfield Horse Railroad Goes Electric

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Turnpikes and Transportation in Sharon

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New London Harbor Lighthouse: Connecticut’s First Official Lighthouse

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“Appalling Calamity”: Loss of the Steamboat Lexington – Today in History: January 13, 1840

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Connecticut Turnpike Opens – Today in History: January 2

The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson

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The “Welcoming Beacon” of Sheffield Island Lighthouse

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Bradley Field Enters the Jet Age

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

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Early Turnpikes Provided Solution to Lack of Reliable Roads

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The Connecticut Houses that Ended Up in Massachusetts

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A Busy Airfield in Bethany

Moses Wheeler: Legendary Housatonic Ferryman

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Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut

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A Hip Road Trip

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Albert Augustus Pope, Transportation Pioneer

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Frank Duryea Drives the First Automobile in Connecticut

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Road Signs of the Air

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Connecticut’s Naval Contributions to the Civil War

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

Charles Ritchel and the Dirigible

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Town Patents the Lattice Truss Bridge – Today in History: January 28

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Farmington Canal Designed to Give Connecticut Commerce a Competitive Edge

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Boston Post Road Carved out Three Travel Routes through State

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New Haven’s Long Wharf

  • Writer:
    Edward T. Howe

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River

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Mighty, Mighty Hartford

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Rails and Paper Trails

Roosevelt Rides in an Electric Car – Today in History: August 22

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

The Path to Ashford’s Progress

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Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck

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Merritt Parkway Creates Scenic Gateway to New England

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Greenwich Emergency Responders: On the Move Overtime

Summer Crowds Flocked to New Canaan and Stayed

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East Haddam Swing Bridge – Today in History: June 14

The Hardware City Could’ve Been the Motor City – Who Knew?

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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Steaming Across the Atlantic

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Learning about the Lusitania: How Hartford Heard the News

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Stagecoach Sustained Commerce and Communication in 1800s

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Last State Highway Toll Paid – Today in History: April 28

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Bradley International Airport Transforms Windsor Locks into Regional Gateway

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Steamboat Accident – Today in History: March 29

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I-95 Reaches New London

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Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journey through Colonial Connecticut

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The Gildersleeve Shipbuilding Legacy in Portland

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DN-1: The US Navy’s First Airship

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New London’s Ferries: A Transportation Tradition

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Pierre Lallement and the Modern-Day Pedal Bicycle – Today in History: November 20

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Helicopters, Guitars, and Guide Dogs: The Revolutionary Mind of Charles Kaman

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The Temperance Movement in Connecticut – Today in History: October 27

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Oxford: From Paths to Pikes

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Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering

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

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The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream

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The Longest Highway Drawbridge – Who Knew?

Airborne Pioneers: Connecticut Takes Flight

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The Sand Hogs Set the Foundation for the Bulkeley Bridge

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Steam Railroads Transform Connecticut Travel and Commerce

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Levi Pease, Stage Route and Transportation Innovator

New England’s Grand Ambition: The Farmington Canal

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A Revolution On Two Wheels: Columbia Bicycles

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Flying High with Early Dirigible

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“Something to Show for Our Work”: Building Brainard Airport

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Parking Authority Created in New Haven – Today in History: June 2

Setting Speed Limits – Today in History: May 21

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The Comstock Bridge Brings East Hampton Residents Together

West Cornwall Covered Bridge: An Icon of New England Craftsmanship

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

Borough of Stonington

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Hamilton Wrecks Aeroplane – Today in History: April 22

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John H. Trumbull: Connecticut’s “Flying Governor”

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The Interstate Highway System Comes to Hartford

John Fitch Born – Today in History: January 21

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The Tariffville Disaster – Today in History: January 15

Iron and Water: The Norwich & Worcester Railroad Story

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Igor Sikorsky and his Flying Machines

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Hamilton Breaks Air Records – Today in History: June 13

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1819-1865

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1776-1818

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1929-1964

Silas Brooks, Balloonist

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Farmington Canal’s Ground-Breaking – Today in History: July 4

Looking Back: the First “Aero Planes”

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

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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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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865

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The Lemon Law – Today in History: June 4

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A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots

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Hidden Nearby: Jedediah Strong’s Milestone

Armstrong Finds a Niche in the Tire Market

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The League of American Wheelmen and Hartford’s Albert Pope Champion the Good Roads Movement

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

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    CTH Staff

  • Town(s):
    North Stonington

Windsor Engineers Success

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Mystic River Bridge Opens – Today in History: July 19

Branford Gets On the Trolley

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