All posts tagged "water"
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6.8KConnecticutThe Wallingford Tornado of 1878 Unleashes Terror on an Unsuspecting Town
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
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4.9KPolitics and MilitaryThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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4.4KPolitics and MilitaryRhode Island’s Little Annapolis: The PT Boat Training Center at Melville
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
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4.5KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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5.0K2MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
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4.4K2ConnecticutHorror Stories About Revolutionary Prisoners Inflame the Colonies
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...
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5.7K1ConnecticutConnecticut Battles Pennsylvania in the Pennamite Wars
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the...
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4.9K2Arts and LeisureSix Historic Buildings With a Clerestory
Ever since visiting the Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine, we at the New England Historical Society have grown fascinated with clerestory...
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7.7KConnecticutThe Mysterious Moodus Noises of Connecticut
The mysterious Moodus noises in south central Connecticut for many years frightened the Puritan settlers. They weren’t alone. The Wangunk Indians had...
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4.3KBusiness and LaborThe Telegraph Hills of Massachusetts
Along the east coast of Massachusetts stretching from Boston to Martha's Vineyard lies a series of Telegraph Hills. So named around 1801,...
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