Administration For The State Of Con

Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (The WPA Guide to Connecticut)


• Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwo...
• Here also was made the novelty ‘Chestnut Bell’ which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay ninet...
• At Hayes’ General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil ...
• The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” provi...
• John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made...
• The slogan ‘45 minutes in Havana’ was not coined in the Cuban city, but in a Yankee cigar factory he...
• The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the vic...
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