The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
Robert Schuyler was one of the most respected men of his era, the last person likely to pull off one of the...
At about 9:30 in the morning on October 15, 1891, Marcellus Gould, a superintendent at the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester, N.H., went...
One month after a tropical storm walloped Massachusetts, the Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 blew through New England, flattening factories, collapsing houses,...
In 1840, the river men who hitched their fortunes to ships like the Greenfield, which hauled freight up and down the Connecticut...
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...