All posts tagged "new britain conn"
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33.5K13Business and LaborHow the Polish Immigrants Came to New England
Before Polish immigrants arrived in New England they had already made it to the Jamestown colony in Virginia as craftsmen. Over the...
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9.7KConnecticutGentleman Gerald Chapman, Connecticut’s Celebrity Gangster
Gerald Chapman, Prohibition’s celebrated “Gentleman Bandit,” might have escaped the gallows if he hadn’t gone on a crime spree in Connecticut. While...
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5.8K5Business and LaborCharles Keeney Hamilton – Connecticut’s ‘Crazy Man of the Air’
In 1910, two newspapers, one in New York and the other in Philadelphia, put up a prize of $10,000 for the first...
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