All posts tagged "Stonington Conn."
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6.6K4ConnecticutConnecticut Justice: When Murder Became Manslaughter
The evolution of New England laws from religious based findings toward secular Common Law was a gradual affair, and it took a...
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3.3KbostonLeonard Black, A Suffering Slave Who Clung to Hope
Leonard Black couldn’t read or write when he escaped slavery in Maryland, but he found a way to pay for his education....
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10.5K1Business and LaborNathaniel Palmer, Connecticut Mariner, Sort of Discovers Antarctica in 1820
On Feb. 6, 1821, young Capt. Nathaniel Palmer and the four-man crew aboard the Hero were becalmed in uncharted waters off Antarctica,...
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6.1K1ConnecticutThe SS Lexington Disaster, Worst in Long Island Sound History
Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1834 commissioned a paddlewheel steamboat called the SS Lexington to be the fastest and most luxurious in operation. She turned...
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2.8K3Business and LaborJoshua Hempstead Makes It Home Safely
Joshua Hampstead throughout his long life in colonial New England pursued many business activities, some of which carried perils almost unimaginable today. He...
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Flashback Photo: Exploding Steamboats Cause Congress To Act
The tendency of steamboats to blow up and catch fire became such a concern by 1838 that the U.S. Congress created the...
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3.0KConnecticutAn Early Puritan Settler Plants White Pease and Gray Pease
The early Puritan settler Thomas Minor may have kept a diary from 1653 to 1684 just to keep track of the days....
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6.4K5ConnecticutFlashback Photo: Stonington, Conn., 1940
Jack Delano took this haunting photo of Stonington, Conn., in 1940 for the Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New...
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15.0K7Arts and LeisureJaws, Or The Tale of an Unfairly Maligned Shark
The 1974 bestseller Jaws and the blockbuster that followed created such animosity toward sharks that the book’s author became an ardent shark advocate. Twenty-five...
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