All posts tagged "Hartford Conn."
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14.4K1ConnecticutNew England Witchcraft Trials: It Wasn’t Just Salem
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
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8.7K5ConnecticutThe Hartford Controversy of 1650: ’Afraid to venture our souls’
In 1656, the Hartford Controversy cost Rev. John Russell his job. In the 1650s the church at Hartford, Conn. was one of...
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10.8K9Business and LaborIn 1867 the First New England Snowbirds Travel South – ‘Feeling Young and Frisky.’
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
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12.5K2ConnecticutIn 1634 John Stone Is Lost in the Connecticut Fog of War
In 1634, Pequot Indians captured a vessel commanded by English trader John Stone at the mouth of the Connecticut River. They killed...
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8.1K1Business and LaborThe Wreck of the Greenfield Presages the End of the Connecticut River Men
In 1840, the river men who hitched their fortunes to ships like the Greenfield, which hauled freight up and down the Connecticut...
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8.7K7Business and LaborWhen Pratt Met Whitney the Sparks Flew – Literally
Amos Whitney came from American industrial royalty. His father was a locksmith, his grandfather a blacksmith and another wing of the family...
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