All posts tagged "disasters"
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9.1KConnecticutThe Wallingford Tornado of 1878 Unleashes Terror on an Unsuspecting Town
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
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6.5KConnecticutThe Double Life of Railroad King Robert Schuyler
Robert Schuyler was one of the most respected men of his era, the last person likely to pull off one of the...
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18.7K22Business and LaborThe Amoskeag Mill Disaster of 1891
At about 9:30 in the morning on October 15, 1891, Marcellus Gould, a superintendent at the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester, N.H., went...
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28.6K1MassachusettsThe Great Havana Hurricane of 1846
One month after a tropical storm walloped Massachusetts, the Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 blew through New England, flattening factories, collapsing houses,...
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4.7K1Business and LaborThe Wreck of the Greenfield Presages the End of the Connecticut River Men
In 1840, the men who hitched their fortunes to ships like the Greenfield that hauled freight up and down the Connecticut River...
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10.5K1MassachusettsThe Sinking of the Andrea Doria Ends an Era
The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria wasn’t supposed to sink. After all, her designers had learned the lessons from the Titanic disaster. But on a...
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4.4K1MaineThe 1762 Drought Follows a Cold, Late Spring
A cold April was a prelude to the 1762 drought, one of the worst in the history of New England. It hit...
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9.3K2bostonThe Great Boston Fire of 1872
In 1871, a Boston fire department engineer name John Damrell traveled to Chicago to examine the smoking ruins of the Great Chicago...
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11.8K2MassachusettsThe Tragedy of Texas Tower No. 4
In the dark, early morning hours of Jan. 15, 1961, the little Navy vessel AKL-17 plowed through monster waves toward Texas Tower...
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17.1K8Crime and ScandalThe Kid Wrongly Blamed for the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Stanley Tomaszewski was a 16-year-old busboy working on the night of the Cocoanut Grove fire, Nov. 28, 1942, the Saturday after Thanksgiving....
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