All posts tagged "Waterbury"
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93.2K28Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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8.3K11Business and LaborS. Z. Poli, New Haven’s Italian P.T. Barnum
Twenty-one-year-old S. Z. Poli came to America in 1881 with little more than the ability to carve lifelike figures from wax. He...
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8.4K4Flashback PhotosVermont’s Great 1927 Flood
The Great 1927 Flood was easily the worst in the Vermont’s history. Torrential tropical rains of up to 9 inches from November...
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9.1K7ConnecticutHurricane Diane, 1st $1 Billion Hurricane, Wallops New England in 1955
Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. But Hurricane Diane was...
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13.9K15ConnecticutMoses Dunbar, The Other Connecticut Man Hanged in the Revolution
Moses Dunbar was hanged in Hartford, Conn., on March 19, 1777 – and his father, it is believed, offered the hemp for...
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9.8K5Business and LaborChauncey Jerome, the Connecticut Man Who Loved To Make Clocks
When he was 12 years old, sometime around 1809, Chauncey Jerome overheard two old men ridiculing clockmaker Eli Terry. Terry had started...
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