All posts tagged "wethersfield"
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9.2KArts and LeisureNew England Places To Take Mom on Mother’s Day
Everyone knows about historic New England places like the Freedom Trail or Robert Frost’s Farm. But the New England Historical Society can...
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18.2K4ConnecticutIsaac Bissell Electrifies Connecticut With News of the Battle of Lexington
Isaac Bissell electrified the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut with the news of the Battle of Lexington in April 1775. He rode...
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14.5K15MassachusettsMad Jack Oldham Starts the Pequot War
War between the early English colonists of New England and the Native Americans already here was perhaps unavoidable, though it wasn’t the...
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22.1K23ConnecticutHow the Italian Immigrants Came to New England
Italian immigrants put their stamp on New England as indelibly as any Puritan. New England, in fact, is the most Italian region...
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11.5K2ConnecticutHow To Use a Bayonet in Five Easy Motions
Baron Friedrich von Steuben is credited with professionalizing the Continental Army, teaching the troops, among other things, how to use the bayonet....
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9.7KConnecticutGentleman Gerald Chapman, Connecticut’s Celebrity Gangster
Gerald Chapman, Prohibition’s celebrated “Gentleman Bandit,” might have escaped the gallows if he hadn’t gone on a crime spree in Connecticut. While...
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