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1853 map, 4

1873 Business Directory, 79

1897 - 1898 Business Directory, 80

19th Connecticut, 76

2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 76

A. B. Garfield, 84

A. L. Hugins, 84

Abbe, Adam & Co., 82

Academy, the, 42, 47

Acme Stencil Works, 86

Adam & Franklin, 26

Adam estate, 37

Adam homestead, 26

Adam, Charles, 15

Adam, G. A., 86

Adam, Mary G., Mrs., 13

Adam, Mary Geikie, Mrs., 12

Adam, Mr., 44

Adam, S. W., Miss, 26, 28, 49

Adam, Samuel Forbes, 14

Adam, William, 26, 28, 37, 39, 41, 44, 49, 83

Adams Express, 79

Adams, E. W., 81

Adams, Wolcott N., 73

Adams, Z. T., 79

Albany, NY, 56

Allen, Ethan, Col., 19

Alling, Marcia, 49

Anchor Brand Lime, 86

Anchor Lime Co., 86

Anchor Lime Co. Kiln, 43

Anchors, manufacture of, 16

Andre, Major, 19

Annunciators, 85

Archipelago, 48

Arithmetic, 48

Armor plating for war vessels, 18

Artificial crown and bridge work, 83

Ashley Falls Road, 41

Ashley Falls, MA, 31

Attorney-at-Law, 79

Austin, Abial, 25

Averill, Chester, 49

Avis, W. R., M.D., 87

Axes, Manufacture of, 16

B. Plymouth Rocks, 87

B. R. Co., 15

Bailey, Ira C., 75

Baker, Noyes, 40

Baldwin, Joe, 14

Ball Room Dances, 86

Baptist meeting house, 40

Bar iron, production of, 16

Barber, 79

Barbour, Merritt S., 49

Barlow, S., 38

Barnes, Charles' Sons' Lime Kilns, 37

Barnes, Chas. & Sons, 79

Barnes, Henry C., 66

Barnes, S. W., 28

Barnes, Sheriden W., 27, 37

Barnum, Richardson, 8, 14

Barnum, Richardson Co., 15, 79, 82

Barnum, Richardson Co. - East Canaan Furnace, 15

Barstow, Col., 44

Barstow, John, Col., 38, 44

Bartlett, Earl, 49

Bartram, Edward E., 81

Beach, A. N., 60

Beach, Albert N., 73

Beach, Samuel S., 75

Beckley Store, 63

Beckley, John A., 15, 28, 73

Beckley, John G., 86

Beckley, Levi W., 73

Beckley, Oliver, 63, 73

Beckley, S. C., 63, 65, 74, 79, 83

Beckley, Samuel, 28

Beckley, Samuel C., 63

Beckley, Silas, 28

Bedstead Factory, 41, 50

Bedstead Shop, 50

Beebe, William, 87

Beetle and wedge, game of, 48

Bennett, S. A., 79

Bennett, Samuel, 28

Bennett, Susan, 49

Bennett's Hill, 22

Berkshire Division, New York, New Haven and Hartford system, 34

Berkshire Railroad Corporation, 31

Bettis House, 74

Bicycle Repairing, 81

Bigelow place, the, 25

Bigelow, James F., M.D., 75

Bishop & Sykes, 31

Bishop, Alfred, 44

Bishop, Mr., 45

Blackberry Dam, 20

Blackberry River, 41, 71

Blacksmith, 79

Blodgett, William, 74

Boarding school, 42

Bonner, Thomas, Mrs., 67

Book Agent, 79

Boot and Shoe Maker, 79

Boston, MA, 12, 13

Bradley, B. J., 61

Bragg Street, 40

Bragg, J. L., 28

Bragg, J. L. store, 40

Bragg, James L., 82

Bragg's store, 50

Branch store, 42

Bridgeport route for railroad, 31

Bridgeport, CT, 31, 32, 36

Briggs Cotton Mill, 43

Briggs, Albert P., 75

Briggs, W. H., 85

Brooklyn, 86

Brown & Beckley, 63

Brown, Luther, 63

Brown, Mary Ann, 49

Brown, Nelson M., 38

Burrall, President, 36

Burrall, William P., 29

Burtt, Colonel, 15

Business Directory, 78, 80

Business Directory as of 1873, 79

Butcher, 79

Butts, Ensign, 75

C. H. Pease, 3, 85

C. W. R. R., 79

Café Union Depot, 84

Caldwell, Mrs., 42

Camp Meetings, 66

Camp store, 60

Camp, C. W., Dr., 28, 29

Camp, C. W., M.D., 87

Camp, Dr., 57

Camp, W. H., 41, 86

Campbell's Falls, 74

Camp's drug store, 42

Camp's store, 50

Canaan, 3, 11, 13, 19, 24, 29, 31, 36, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 50, 55, 56, 58, 59, 72, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87

Canaan and North Canaan, 71

Canaan as Falls Village, 72

Canaan Depot, 7, 45

Canaan Depot, village of, 27

Canaan in the Revolution, 18

Canaan Lime Co., The, 81

Canaan Mountain, 8, 11, 16, 41, 53

Canaan Mountaineers, 70

Canaan Savings Bank, 86

Canaan, Town of, 7, 24

Canaan, Village of, 4

Canaan's famous elm, 72

Canaan's water supply, 30

Canfield Bros., 80

Canfield Brothers' Lime Kilns, 42

Canfield, W. H., 85

Canfield, William, 84

Cannon, manufacture of, 13, 16

Car wheels, chilled, 82

Carpenter and Joiner, 79

Carpenter shop, 54

Carriage Maker, 79

Carroll, John, 75

Catlin store, 27, 44

Catlin, George O., 63

Caulkins, Mr., 63

Chapin, Henry, 40

Chapman Cabinet Shop, 73

Charcoal Pig Iron, 82

Charles Barnes' Sons, 80

Charles Barnes' Sons' Lime Kilns, 37

Charter Oak Tavern, 62

Chicago, IL, 58

Chilled car wheels, 82

Chilton Paints, 86

Christ Church - Episcopal, 61

Church Hill, 11

Church Street, 50, 57

Church, Ensign, 73

Church, Leman, 27, 28

Circus, 55

Civil Engineer, 79

Civil War, 75

Civil War Volunteers, 75

Clark & Valentine, 50

Clay presidential campaign, 39

Clay, Cassius M., 39

Clay, Henry, 39

Clay, Henry Mass Meeting, 39

Clayton, MA, 56, 66

Clothes pounders, 53

Coach hat factory, 43

Coach, Harvey, 28, 42

Coal Dealer, 79

Cocaine, 83

Coggswell, H. C., 32

Coggswell, H. H., 79

Cogswell & Kenyon, 79

Cogswell, S., Miss, 79

Collin, F. R., 60, 84

Commission Merchant, 79

Common School Arithmetic, 48

Compton, Edward S., 53

Conductor, 79

Congregational Church, 59, 61, 63

Congress, member of, 27

Connecticut Western News, 40

Connecticut Western News, The, 83

Connecticut Western Railroad, 63

Connecticut, State of, 31

Coon, John W., 75

Coons, Abram, 75

Coons, Frank, 52

Coons, Frank, residence of, 41

Coons, Heman H., 75

Co-operative Creamery Association, 85

Corbin, George H., 79

Corbit, Julius, Mrs., 28

Corbit, Mary C., Mrs., 19

Cotton batting, 43

Cotton warp, 43

Couch Hat Shop, 27, 42

Couch, Darius, 28

Cowdrey, Geo. W., 86

Cowles, Frances, 49

Cowles, W. S., 42

Crippen, Silas, 51

Cummings, Frank A., 75

Cummings, P., 79

Cummings, P. C., 60, 75, 79

Curriculum of school, 48

D. E. Walter, 81

Daboll, Ezekiel, 53

Daboll, Isaac F., 75

Daboll, Jonathan, 40

Daboll, Mr., 54

Daguerreotype, 52

Daly Brothers, 54

Danbury, CT, 31

Dancing teacher, 86

Davis, Jeff, effigy of, 76

Day & Nichols Circus, 56, 57

Day, Miles H., 75

Day, Phelps, 55, 56

Deane, James, Rev., 75

Decker, Eugene, 51, 75

DeForest & Thorp, 60

Demars, Neziar, 75

Deming, Chester, 28

Democratic party, 39

Dental Parlors, 83

Dings, H., 79

District schoolhouse, 47

Division of town, 68

Doors, Sash, and Blinds, 79

Douglas farmhouse, 28

Douglas Library, 22

Douglas, William, 73

Douglass farmhouse, 68

Douglass Library, 68

Douglass place, 70

Drake blacksmith shop, 41

Dress Makers, 79

Dressmaker, 79

Druggist, 79

Duck on a rock, game of, 48

Dunham, William, 26, 41

Dunning, George S., 84

Dunning, Hawley, 61, 62

Dunning, Miss, 74

Dutcher, Rulof, 25

Dutcher, Ruloff, Captain, 24

Dutcher's Bridge, 42, 49

E. R. Lorrain, 81

E. S. Pease, 86

E. W. Adams, 81

Early Settlers, 9

East Canaan, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 40, 42, 43, 52, 54, 58, 59, 61, 73, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87

East Canaan Church, 31, 53

East Canaan Road, hotel on the, 23

East Sheffield, MA, 56

Eddy, Dr., house of, 41

Eddy, Dr., residence of, 42

Eddy, Hiram, Dr., 61

Eddy, Hiram, Mrs., 7, 8, 28

Eddy, Hiram, Rev., 38

Eddy, S. A., 28

Eddy, S. A., residence of, 42

Eddy, Samuel A., 81

Eddy, Samuel A., & Co., 80

Eggleston, L. J., 81

Egleston, Bill, 51

Egleston, Jerry, 51

Election Day, as holiday, 68

Elm, Canaan's, 72

Emmons, Charles, 33, 34, 40

Emmons, Chas., 79

Emmons, Philander, 75

Engine house, 36

Ensign, John A., 45

Episcopal Church, 61, 73

Ether, 83

Eucaine, 83

Evitts, Burton B., 75

F. H. Smith, 83

F. R. Collin, 84

Fairfield County Railroad, 31

Fairfield, CT, 29

Falls Village, CT, 36, 45, 66, 72

Feed, 79

Fellows, Abial, 23

Ferris shoe shop, 27

Ferris, Fitch, 26, 28, 73

Ferris, Mr., 26

Fire engine, manufacture of, 53

Fire hose carriage, 42

Fire insurance, 82

First train, the, 31

Fitch Ferris shoe shop, 26

Fitch, John L., 38

Fitch, Miss, 74

Flour, 79

Foot stove, 53

Foote, L., 79

Foote, Luman, 41

Forbes Iron Company, 15

Forbes Ore Bed, 12

Forbes residence, 12

Forbes works, 14

Forbes, Mrs., 13

Forbes, Samuel, Squire, 11

Forbes, Squire, 12, 13, 14, 19

Fort Ticonderoga, NY, 18

Foster, John, 57, 58, 59

Four Corners, 22, 47

Frank A. Peet bara., 40

Franklin Store, 41

Franklin, H. W., 79

Franklin, Hugh W., 38

Franklin, John, 25, 27, 28

Franklin, Judge, 25

Franklin, Silas, 24, 25

Frazier, Mott, 61, 62

Frederick Plumb & Co., 60

Freeman, D. L., 18, 80, 86

Fuller & Peet, 51, 81

Fuller & Peet building, 54, 60

Fuller, Edward, 75

Fuller, Geo. S., 86

Fuller, J. R. & Peet, 79

Fuller, John R., 38, 51, 60, 73

Furnace Road, 28

G. A. Adam, 86

G. L. Parsons & Sons, 82

G. P. Strong, 81

Gardner, Robert, 75

Garfield, A. B., 84

Garrahan, James, 52

Gas lighting, 85

Gaylordsville, CT, 36

General Training, 21

Geo. L. Parsons, 82

Geography, 48

George K. Goodwin, 87

George S. Dunning, 84

Gillette family in the Revolution, 18

Gillette homestead, 28

Gillette, Abigail, 49

Gillette, Almerin, 41

Gillette, Charles, 37, 51, 52

Gillette, Chas., 79

Gillette, Fannie, Miss, 42

Gillette, Frederick, 28

Gillette, George, 28

Gillette, George S., 73

Gillette, Jonathan, 50

Gillette, Mr., 53

Gillette, Sereno, 22, 28

Gillette's Woods, 38, 39

Gingel, John, 73

Ginning, Mr., 25

Gipsy's Warning, The, 56

Goggin, Peter, 28

Goodwin, George K., 87

Gorman, Michael, 16, 28

Gorman, William, 75

Grammar, 48

Granger, Bertha J., 49

Granger, Bertha J., Miss, 74

Granger, Josephine, 49

Granger, Judge, 10, 40

Granger, Judge, residence, 41

Granger, M. T., 79

Granger, M. T., Judge, 27

Granger, M. T., Mrs., 25, 31

Granger, Miles T., 73

Granger, S., M.D., 79

Granite Avenue, 49

Grist mill, 12

H. Wellner, 82

Hanchett house, 28

Hanchett, Ephraim, 16

Hanchetts, The, 16

Hardenbergh, J. B., 79

Hardenbergh, J. B., Col., 27

Harlaem, NY, 31

Harness Maker, 79

Hart, Sidney, 75

Hart, William, 75

Harvest Home, 38

Harvey Coach shop, 28

Harvey, General, 17, 18

Harveyized Steel, 18

Hat factory, 42

Hawley, Julius, 37

Henry Clay Mass Meeting, 39

Hewitt, Gershom, Captain, 18

Hiester, Wm., 79

High Street, 40, 47

Hill, Aaron, 47

Hillyer, John, 75

Hines, Bennett, 75

Hitchcock & Holcomb, 85

Hitchcock, Frank, 28

Hoag, Walter D., 75

Holcomb, Jerome, 70

Hollister, Mark, 49

Home Guard, 46, 47

Hot water heating, 81

Hotel, 79

Hotel & Restaurant, 79

Hotel Warner, 83

Housatonic Railroad, 9, 27, 28, 32, 34, 39, 44, 63, 79

Housatonic Railroad Company, 31

Housatonic Railroad, construction of, 31

Housatonic River, 9, 28, 76

Housatonic, as name of locomotive, 33

Hubbard, A. A., 44

Hubbard, Albert A., 63, 74

Hubbard, John H., 45, 73

Hudson, NY, 14

Huggins stage, 45

Huggins, driver of, 46

Huggins, William, 45Hugins, A. L., 84

Humphrey store, 44, 60

Humphrey, Billy, 44

Humphrey, G., 79, 80

Humphrey, Griswold, 43, 60, 63, 73

Humphrey, H. D., 80

Humphrey, Horace D., 44

Humphrey, Merrill, 43

Humphrey, W. G., 79

Humphrey's Drug Store, 43, 80

Humphrey's Store, 43

Hunt house, 40

Hunt, Charles K., 64

Hunt, Chas. K., 38

Hunt, E. P., 51

Hunt, Mr., 52

Huntington and Day works, 17

Hurd, W. S., 40

Indian Crossing, 9

Insurance Agent, 79

Investment Securities, 80

Iron industry, 11

Iron Prince, 11

Irving, Washington, 10

Isaac Lawrence tavern, 28

Isham Woolen Factory, 40

Isham Woolen Mill, 54

Isham, John, Col., 54

Island, The, 12

Ives & Peirce, 82

Ives house, 28

Ives, Amos L., 75

Ives, E., 73

Ives, H., 73

Ives, H. B., 82

Ives, Sabin, 54

J. H. Roraback, 85

J. L. Bragg store, 40

J. N. Van Deusen, 83

J. S. New, 85

Jackson & Eggleston, 81

Jackson & Eggleston's store, 60

Jackson, N. L., 81

James L. Bragg, 82

James Quinn, 82

James, J. H., 79

John G. Beckley, 86

John Rodemeyer, 84

Jones, Benjamin, 44, 63

June, Alfred, 75

Kamschatka, 48

Keenan, James, 28

Keith, James, 75

Kellogg & Brown, 64

Kellogg & Humphrey, 60

Kellogg, Charles, 73

Kellogg, Charles, Dea., 60, 63

Kilmer, M. J., 28, 42, 47

Kimball, Henry, 37

Kimball, Mr., 38

Knickerbocker House, 68

Knickerbocker, M., 79

Knickerbocker, W. H., 41, 51

L. C. Rhoades, 83

Lacey, Mrs., 36

Lacey, R. B., 36

Lafayette, Marquis de, 19

Lake Wangum, 16

Lake, R. J., 52

Lakeville, CT, 16

Land, price of, 10

Lasher, William, 49

Lawrence Tavern, 7, 8

Lawrence, "Uncle Harve", 56

Lawrence, David, 52

Lawrence, E. D., 17

Lawrence, Edmund, 47

Lawrence, Edward D., 75

Lawrence, H. T., 79

Lawrence, Isaac, 28

Lawrence, Lorenzo, 42

Lawrence, William, 28

Leap frog, game of, 48

Leavitt, Erasmus Darwin, 49

Lee, Dr., residence and offices of, 41

Lee, F. H., M.D., 87

Lemley, John, 75

Lenox, MA, 40

Liberty pole, 76

Lime Manufacturers, 79

Lime Rock, CT, 36

Linnahan, James, 75

Linnahan, William, 75

Litchfield County Regiment, 22

Litchfield, CT, 24

Livery, 87

Locomotives, 33

Locomotives, comparison with modern engines, 33

Long, Charles, 75

Lorrain, E. R., 81

Lower Corner, 28, 60, 68, 71, 73

Lower Corner Tavern, 70

Lower Corner, hotel at the, 23