The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Conn., started with 200 books donated by local resident Mark Twain – books he’d scribbled over...
The City of Cleveland and nearly all of Northeastern Ohio once belonged to Connecticut. The land, 3.5 million acres of it, was...
On May 2, 1879, The Hon. George Sewall Boutwell was offering “a thousand acres of land in Groton, Mass., to negro exodus...