On Sept. 16, 1920, an Italian immigrant named Mario Buda parked his horse-drawn wagon across from J.P. Morgan and Co. and down...
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
When the Great September Gale struck New England in the fall of 1815, few could remember the last time such a devastating...
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...