to visit our page about Canaan, CT  -- information about  our republication of Scrap Book of North Canaan.

to visit our page about Winchester and Winsted, CT and learn about our republication of Annals of Winchester -- now available.  (Winchester is the township in which Winsted is located).

to visit the page about our republication of TWO scarce old books about the history of New Milford, CT.  

to visit the pages about Lime Rock, today just a hamlet in the Town of Salisbury -- but once the headquarters of an industrial empire -- and our CD-ROM about Lime Rock, based on a Heritage Walk we conducted there in October 2004.

to visit our page about our republication of Arthur Goodenough's classic The Clergy of Litchfield County (1909).  We've added some additional rare material of the period and some photographs, old and new.

  to visit our page about our republication of Alain C. White's History of Litchfield, Conn -- 1720 - 1920.  We've improved on the original by compiling and adding a much-needed index for this edition.

What's coming next in our Litchfield County series?  

Now that Twin Lakes, where we live and have our business, has been "discovered" (according to the Lakeville Journal), we will be documenting what remains of old Twin lakes and what new Twin Lakes is shaping up like.  We've started photography for this but we have much, much more to do.  We'll do more photography this summer, including detailed documentation of what the lakefront looks like from a boat. 

We have agreed to publish for the first time Judith Moore Sherman's paper entitled "Land Speculation in Colonial Salisbury".  This paper reexamines the folklore about rampant land speculation during the Colonial period and subjects it to a standard of proof -- namely, exhaustive analysis of land transaction records and vital records of the period.  We've also been collecting additional materials about several aspects of the history of Salisbury Township -- items outside the mainstream and generally unavailable elsewhere -- and we think that we  have a real project taking shape here. 

We've been continuing to collect material about Lime Rock, so it is not an unreasonable expectation that a second Lime Rock CD-ROM will be coming along to supplement our Lime Rock Walking Tour CD.

We've also got the first two volumes of the Historical Collections of the Salisbury Association (1913) which deserve republication for sure.  We've been accumulating additional Salisbury CT materials as well.

We are always interested in undertaking new projects involving publication or republication of local history, particularly in Litchfield County.  Please contact us with your suggestions.

One problem that bedevils anyone trying to research local history or genealogy in an unfamiliar place is changing place named.  Roads, lakes, rivers, communities all are subjected to name changes over the decades and centuries.  Some place names vanish completely -- except in old records where they come up occasionally, seemingly to bedevil the researcher. 

Keeping some kind of tabulation of these changed geographic names to help visitors get their bearings seems to be the kind of courtesy any locale ought to routinely extend but very, very few do.  We have begun such an effort for Litchfield County, secure in the knowledge that our efforts will always be insufficient, and that this is a task that will never be completed.  Please to see our page about changed place names in Litchfield County.

We also republish local history about other areas.  Please to learn about them.

And, don't forget to try the red "Search our website" button at the bottom of every page.  We're a little unusual because we put an index on line for each of our publications.  That way, you can find out whether a subject you're interested in is covered BEFORE you buy.

Because of Litchfield County's significant role in the iron industry, be sure to   to visit our pages on that topic.  Along those lines, we're gradually providing historical information about Lime Rock, CT on this page.  Just to visit that growing page -- and read about the new CD! 

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This website was last updated 05/07/2008