All posts tagged "Waterbury"
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33.6K24ConnecticutThe 1918 Flu Epidemic Kills Thousands in New England
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
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98.0K28Arts 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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9.9K11Business 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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10.2K4Flashback 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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12.0K7ConnecticutHurricane 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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15.7K15ConnecticutMoses 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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