Revolutionary holidays didn’t start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
Jacataqua, the story goes, fell in love with Aaron Burr when she first laid eyes on him in 1775. She was the...
The oldest lighthouse in the country would have been in New England had the British not blown it up during the American...
Fort Griswold in Groton, Conn. was the scene of Benedict’s Arnold’s final act of treason against his fellow Connecticut countrymen – the...
You didn’t have to show courage in battle to be a revolutionary hero. But if you were, it probably took more than...
Gideon Olmsted, a Connecticut sea captain, departed Hartford and put to sea in Dec. 1777 with a cargo of horses, onions, tobacco,...