All posts tagged "Wallingford"
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7.4K1Politics and MilitarySix Places That Raised a Liberty Pole
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
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2.1KVermontJohn Humphrey Noyes Finds Out Sex and Silverware Don’t Mix
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
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3.8K9ConnecticutDivorce, Murder and Madness: The Puritan Tuttles of the New Haven Colony
William and Elizabeth Tuttle sailed to America in 1635 to become one of the founding families of the New Haven Colony. Arriving...
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8.4K1ConnecticutPolly Peabody, The Bohemian Blueblood Who Invented the Bra
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
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1.4K5MaineSix Churches (All Gorgeous) Designed by Ralph Adams Cram
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England,...
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11.9K8ConnecticutWilliam Franklin, Ben’s Son, Spent the Revolutionary War in a Connecticut Jail
The American Revolution created rifts in many families with both patriots and loyalists among their members, none more disruptive than the divide...
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6.6K6ConnecticutThe Mystery of the Wallingford Shoebox Murder
The Wallingford shoebox murder was discovered on the Sunday morning of Aug. 8, 1886, by three young men rambling through farm country....
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5.6K13ConnecticutMoses Dunbar, The Other Connecticut Man Hanged in the Revolution
Moses Dunbar was hanged in Hartford, Conn., on March 19, 1777 – and his father, it is believed, offered the hemp for...
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1.2K4ConnecticutFlashback Photo: Quinnipiac River, Connecticut, 1907
This vintage postcard view of the Quinnipiac River was taken in 1907 from Wallingford, Conn. 'Quinnipiac' comes from an Algonquian phrase meaning...
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2.7K7VermontMatthew Lyon, Vermont’s Spitting Irishman
Much about Matthew Lyon of Fair Haven, Vt., is unclear, but one thing is certain. He started the first congressional brawl on...