All posts tagged "Hartford"
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11.5K9New England PlacesSix Canals That Built New England
In 1803, one of the first New England canals made Boston the undisputed commercial center of New England. Called ‘the Incredible Ditch,’...
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47.7K22MassachusettsExactly How New England’s Indian Population Was Decimated
Even before European colonists thinned the Indian population in New England, war and disease had already begun their dirty work. A team...
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14.5KConnecticutIn 1674 the Connecticut Rogerenes Test the Limits of Religious Freedom
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn. in the late 1600s. They were named for...
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9.5KConnecticutFrederick Law Olmsted Finds a Wife (But It Wasn’t Easy)
Frederick Law Olmsted had played the field of pretty, well-to-do young ladies in 1851 when he decided it was time to get...
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14.7K6New England PlacesSix of New England’s Most Famous Writers Houses
New England is dotted with famous writers houses, a testament to the Puritan ideal of literacy and the region’s many publishing houses....
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27.7K4MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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