The Hiram J. Norton House (1865)
Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Houses, Italianate, Plainville | No Comments »Hiram J. Norton (1826-1899) was a machinist. His house, at 31 Maple Street in Plainville, was built around 1860-1865, perhaps at the time of his marriage to Martha Barnes; their son, Raymond D. Norton, was born in 1862. ...
The Chauncey Jerome House (1832)
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Bristol, Greek Revival, Houses, Organizations | No Comments »The house of Chauncey Jerome, on South Street in Bristol, has seen many changes over the years. Chauncey Jerome was a clockmaker and entrepreneur who became the most successful of the many clock manufacturers in the Bristol area. ...
Congregational Church of Burlington (1836)
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in Burlington, Churches, Greek Revival | 1 Comment »In the eighteenth century, two parishes were established in what was then the West Woods section of Farmington: the New Cambridge Ecclesiastical Society in 1742 and the West Britain Ecclesiastical Society, gathered in 1774 and incorporated in 1783. That ...
The Charles E. Mitchell House (1880)
Monday, April 12th, 2010 Posted in Houses, New Britain, Queen Anne | No Comments »Charles Elliott Mitchell (1837-1911), a lawyer originally from Bristol, practiced law in New Britain, forming a partnership with Frank L. Hungerford in 1869. The partners wrote the charter when New Britain became a city in 1870 and Mitchell was ...
Casa Bianca (1848)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in Houses, Italianate, New Haven | 2 Comments »Casa Bianca is an Italianate house in New Haven, built around 1848. It most likely originally stood on Orange Street, but was moved to Bradley Street around 1882. In the early twentieth century, it was the home of ...
Towns
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in | No Comments »Alphabetical Listing of Towns The following list links to individual town pages which have links to websites and online books for each community. Andover Ansonia Avon Beacon Falls Berlin Bethany Bloomfield Bolton Branford Bridgeport Bristol Burlington Canterbury Canton Centerbrook (see Essex) Cheshire Chester Clinton Colchester Collinsville (see Canton) Columbia Coventry Cromwell Danbury Darien Deep River Derby Durham East Granby East Haddam East Hampton East Hartford East ...
Bristol
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 Posted in | No Comments »Bristol Historical Society http://www.bristolhistoricalsociety.org/ American Clock and Watch Museum http://www.clockmuseum.org/ Books Bristol, Connecticut: "In the Olden Time New Cambridge", which includes Forestville (1907) The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Vol. 2 (1886), (Chap. IV "Bristol"), edited by J. Hammond Trumbull Historical Sketch of the ...
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