Business and Labor
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12.1K1The Grover Shoe Factory Disaster Shakes the Nation in 1905
In March of 1905, with spring weather coming, the operators of the Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Mass., decided to switch off...
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7.8K7River Gods of the Connecticut River Valley Create A World of Their Own
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
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4.7K1The Eccentric Mainer Who Built the A&P Supermarket Empire
In 1859, George Gilman decided to change careers. At 33 he was an executive in his father’s tannery in New York City....
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5.1K2Fire, Fury, Murder and More – Tales from the Roger Mowry Tavern
Roger Mowry started life in England and came to Boston in 1631 at about the age of 20. He moved around a...
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11.1K1The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
Benjamin Day was a pioneer of fake news. In 1835, his great moon hoax and other fantastic tales made his newspaper, the...
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5.2KJoseph Dudley and the Private Bank That Sank Him
Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...
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7.0K2Small Bells of Connecticut: One Town Made Sounds That Rang in Millions of Ears
The small bells rung by Salvation Army soldiers during the Christmas holidays are all made in Connecticut. So is the small bell...
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5.2K5The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
On Nov. 5, 1872, Benjamin Briggs of Wareham, Mass. piloted the brigantine Mary Celeste to sea loaded with cargo for Genoa. It...
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5.4KNew Haven’s Jared Flagg Launches One of the First Ponzi Schemes
In 1926 the police had Jared Flagg under questioning. It wasn’t the first time the flimflam man was in trouble with the...
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4.8K2The New England Opium Crisis of 1805
New England’s role in the opium trade in the early 1800s is a little-noted phenomenon. New England opium trade produced considerable wealth...
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