Author : Rebecca A. Brown
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584657651
A lavishly illustrated, comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the natural and human elements that comprise the Upper Connecticut River watershed
Author : Wadsworth Atheneum
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Wick Griswold
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609494056
Paddle from Enfield Rapids to Long Island Sound and travel down one of America's most famous waterways, the Connecticut River. Its calm waters conceal an unruly past, where native tribes lost ground to Dutch and English colonists who vied for the river's immense economic power. The skyline of Hartford looms on the western shore, with the gold dome of the capitol as a remnant of this robust economy centered on world trade. Many have found a deep inspiration along the river, including Lady Fenwick, a local legend; David Bushnell, creator of the first American submarine; and even Albert Einstein, who contemplated the cosmos while relaxing on the riverbanks. Author Wick Griswold takes readers on a provocative journey as he traces the history of the Connecticut River.
Author : Darcy Cahill
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764332043
Over 200 beautiful colour photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural perspective through the changing seasons. Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco industry from the farmer's perspective and tour the valley's rich agricultural history, using interviews and hands-on research to captured the essence of this special crop. Learn why it is still an important part of life for the region and how Yankee ingenuity married form and function to solve unique problems presented by fickle weather conditions. Further, the text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds, and how some historic sheds have been transformed, given new life and new uses. This book will be treasured by everyone fascinated with farm architecture and rural New England life.
Author : Max R. Miller
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0819577383
The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that run on a portion of the line between Essex and Chester. Until now the history of this popular tourist attraction has been the stuff of local lore and legend. This book, written by railroad historian and former vice president and director of Valley Railroad, Max R. Miller, provides the first comprehensive history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad through maps, ephemera, and archival photographs of the trains, bridges, and scenery surrounding the line. Offering tales of train wrecks, ghost sightings, booms and busts, Along the Valley Line will be treasured by railroad enthusiasts and historians alike.
Author : Brianna E. Dunlap
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1439657556
Cigar tobacco runs in the blood of Connecticut River Valley farmers. Delve into the surprising history of the region's most iconic crop, all the way back to early Native American uses and the boom of the Civil War. Though fashionable in the 1950s, the popularity of cigars declined a decade later, nearly destroying the region's tobacco industry. A resurgence in the 1990s brought new life to the crop, and the reopening of Cuba in 2015 added a new chapter for cigar tobacco. Brianna Dunlap, director of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum, provides a guide to important tobacco landmarks from East Haddam to Brattleboro, featuring stunning photography from Leonard Hellerman. It is the story of the people--the farmers and field hands--who made tobacco the soul of the valley.
Author : Wick Griswold
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1439670498
Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of the lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Their accomplishments include building the first warship of the Connecticut navy and the world's first submarine. They also served as packet ship captains, navigators and skilled crew members who crossed the Atlantic. The Essex area was also home to dedicated craftsmen who produced some of the finest yachts ever built. Noted historians Wick Griswold and Ruth Major detail one village's important role in American maritime history.
Author : Robert H. Romer
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780981982007
Author : Paul Robert Lucas
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN :
Takes issue with those who have characterized the Puritan social order in New England as monolithic and communally oriented.
Author : Richard D. Little
Publisher : Earth View (MA)
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Science
ISBN :
