Sumner Davis discovered a way to make money in the stagecoach business that didn’t involve passengers or mail – but it did...
On May 21, 1901, the Connecticut Legislature passed a speed limit law aimed at mitigating a brand-new menace on the roads: the...
A trip to Boston to buy clothes all the way from New London was no small matter in 1726, as Martha Coit...
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
The Concord Coach might have been called the Lexington Wagon had Lewis Downing decided against visiting his fiancee in New Hampshire. A...