All posts tagged "Stamford"
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4.7K2ConnecticutDutch Elm Disease, the Nightmare on Elm Street
When Dutch elm disease first appeared in southwestern Connecticut, horrified New Englanders responded immediately to save their beloved elms, state agriculture experts...
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3.3KConnecticutWhy Glenn Miller Has a Memorial Stone in a New Haven Cemetery
Swing bandleader Glenn Miller was born in Iowa, grew up in the Midwest, got famous in New York City, lived in New...
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7.2K1Business and LaborThe First Shopping Mall in Each New England State
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
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15.4K5ConnecticutHow the Wild Turkey Vanished, Then Returned, to New England
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
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8.9K3MassachusettsNew England’s Yellow Day of 1881 Stokes Fears of Doomsday
On Sept. 7, 1881, Boston’s temperature hit 102 degrees, but at least New England’s latest yellow day had cleared. On Sept. 6,...
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11.6K13ConnecticutDivorce, Murder and Madness: The Puritan Tuttles of the New Haven Colony
William and Elizabeth Tuttle sailed to America in 1635 to become one of the founding families of the New Haven Colony. Arriving...
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35.5K12ConnecticutThe Secret History of New England’s Sundown Towns
“Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark” reads the faded road sign, an artifact on display at the Tubman African American Museum...
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3.7K7Politics and MilitaryGeneral John Stark and the Eureka Counterfeiting Ring
When the workmen were tearing down the old Wells & Newell’s Store in Springfield, Vt. in the early 1800s, they discovered a...
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17.5K2Connecticut6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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4.0K1ConnecticutWhen Greenwich Kicked Out the United Nations
Peace after World War II was shattered in Greenwich, Conn., when a United Nations site committee started looking at land for its...
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