All posts tagged "Wethersfield Conn."
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17.4K22Business and LaborThe 1871 Whaling Disaster: 33 Ships Crushed by Arctic Ice
In 1871, a whaling disaster in the Arctic hastened the end of the U.S. whaling industry as ice shipwrecked 33 whale ships....
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6.6K1Crime and ScandalElizabeth Canning Leaves Scandal Behind in Connecticut
In June of 1773, news reached England from Connecticut that Elizabeth Canning Treat had died. The announcement, carried in the newspapers of...
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15.9K15ConnecticutMoses 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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9.9K18ConnecticutWashington and Rochambeau Map Out The Revolutionary Route in Wethersfield, Conn.
On May 22, 1781, 49-year old Gen. George Washington and 55-year-old Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, huddled over maps inside the...
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