Business and Labor
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6.1K1Columbus Smith Found Fortune Abroad, Sadness at Home.
Columbus Smith, a Vermont lawyer, found in 1844 he could make a fortune by researching old deeds to locate the rightful heirs...
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Columbus Smith of Vermont Found Gold in the British Wills
If Vermont’s Columbus Smith paid you a visit or sent you a letter in the mid-1800s, you were in luck. Smith was...
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7.2K6Girl Power: The 1933 New Haven Garment Workers Strike
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women into the middle...
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8.0K3Austin Corbin, New Hampshire Robber Baron – ‘We do not like the Jews…’ (Pt. 2)
The following is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. In July of 1879, Austin Corbin put...
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12.2K2How the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation, which once employed 21,000 people, got started in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922. It happened when a...
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11.3K8Austin Corbin, The ‘Part-Hog, Part-Shark’ Robber Baron of New Hampshire
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most loathsome blight the state ever produced. So perhaps...
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