The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
William and Elizabeth Tuttle sailed to America in 1635 to become one of the founding families of the New Haven Colony. Arriving...
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England....
The American Revolution created rifts in many families with both patriots and loyalists among their members, none more disruptive than the divide...
The Wallingford shoebox murder was discovered on the Sunday morning of Aug. 8, 1886. Three young men rambling through farm country happened...
Moses Dunbar was hanged in Hartford, Conn., on March 19, 1777 – and his father, it is believed, offered the hemp for...