Our currently available Connecticut history and genealogy titles include the following:

Scrap Book of North Canaan 

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Annals of Winchester 

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New Milford: 230 Years 

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Lime Rock: an illustrated walking tour 

for more information

The Clergy of Litchfield County

for more information

Suffield: Quarter Millennial PLUS

  for more information. 

History of Litchfield, Conn.,  1720 - 1920

for more information.

Early Annals of Newington

for more information.

Middletown Collection, including the 1931 real property list

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Connecticut titles currently in progress:

(Nothing right now -- let us know what you would like to see!)

Connecticut titles we own but haven't scheduled:

The History of Ridgefield, Conn. (by Daniel W. Teller) and other material

(1878). 251 pages.  Also, Caudatowan -- the Ridgefield HS yearbook for 1950.  We will also include some old post cards, the relevant material from "The Connecticut Guide", etc. when we produce this CD-ROM.  We're tentatively targeting 2009 for this CD-ROM  depending on interest.  Let us hear from you!  Join our mailing list!

The Copper Industry in Connecticut. 

More information about copper mining in CT.

Souvenir History of the New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume II, Norwich District. (1897) 

300+ pages.  By Rennetts C. Miller.  While Congregational histories of portions of Connecticut are fairly common, and Episcopal histories are not unusual, Methodist ones definitely are.  This one covers the eastern half of the State (everything east of the Connecticut River, plus a small portion of Rhode Island) and does so in considerable detail.  It includes a historical sketch of each church, the campmeeting associations, the Epworth League, the social unions, 400 pictures of churches, parsonages, pastors, pastors' wives, Sunday School superintendents, prominent laymen, etc., as well as capsule biographies of pastors.  We think this will be useful to many people who have been frustrated by lack of information about ancestors who didn't happen to belong to the established church in CT.

History of Torrington, Connecticut

By the Rev. Samuel Orcutt (1878). 817 pages, including original index of names. This book, while a classic Connecticut town history and replete with lots of biographies, is not terribly scarce in hard cover, especially since it was reprinted in 1990 under the auspices of the Torrington Historical Society.  Hence, this is not a priority item for us to republish and we will probably not schedule it until 2010 or later -- unless YOU tell us that you want us to do it sooner.  Be sure to let us know if this is a priority item for YOU!

Litchfield Book of Days

by George C. Boswell (1899).  221 pages (including an index), plus pictures, plus18 pages of advertisements.   This little book is organized by the calendar -- an incident of Litchfield history (sometimes more than one) is selected for each day of the year and is memorialized in a short essay.   A necessary part of the library of anyone doing research on Litchfield, or any of the notables that town produced in the early days.  Also, pleasant to read.  We'll include some of the material we collected for publication of Alain White's History of Litchfield but didn't have room for on that CD-ROM, and we'll prioritize this project based on response to our re-publication of  White's History, for which this book was one of the sources.

The Early Iron Industry of Connecticut

by Herbert C. Keith and Charles Rufus Harte.  This is a pamphlet that basically started the current interest in the historical iron industry of Connecticut.  It contains information about most of the old furnaces and other facilities, as well as photographs and a table listing all of the blast furnaces and their specifications.  Definitely useful to anyone with an interest in this subject matter.

John Hodgkin of Guilford, CT and his descendents, second edition. 

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Twin Lakes -- present and past

Now that Twin Lakes has been "discovered" and we see the old houses vanishing before our eyes, we're getting geared up to prepare a CD-ROM about the history (and present) of our home base, Twin Lakes, CT.  More information about Twin Lakes.

Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum

by Joel Benton (1891).  621 pages.  This is a not-particularly-rare book about a Connecticut original.  Did you know that P.T. Barnum once ran for Congress -- and that he was defeated by his own third cousin, William H. Barnum of Lime Rock? Again, this is currently not on our list of high priorities.  Tell us if you want to see it soon.

Baptisms, Marriages, Burials and List of Members taken from the church records of the Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, first minister of Norfolk, Connecticut, 1761-1813.

printed for Carl and Ellen Battelle Stoeckel (1910).  141 pages.  The title says it all!  When the Stoeckels did something, they made sure to do it right, and this book is an example of that trait.  Conveniently, it also includes an index.  If you have ancestors from Norfolk, or an interest in the history of that town, you probably need this.  (By the way, there's a lot of biographical information about Rev. Robbins in our Clergy of Litchfield County CD-ROM.)

The Gilbert School, Winsted, Connecticut, 1929-1930

More than just a high school yearbook, this one includes the curriculum, the reading list, pictures of the facilities, a list of the faculty since the school's inception, and lists of all the students during the 1929-30 academic year, and a list of all of the alumni from 1896 to 1928.  Gilbert is an interesting school, certainly an anomaly today: a private school acting as a public school.  This is worth reading not only for the many, many names included, but also because of the nature of the school itself.  Tell us what you think!

A New Look at old Salisbury, Connecticut.   

Some may feel that this Litchfield County community has been "studied to death" -- and indeed much has been written about some aspects of it. However, like most local history, what already exists dwells at length on the subjects of interest to the writers and gives short shrift (extremely short shrift in some very important cases) to other aspects that may have actually been far more important (but not popular with the historian's family).  We've also been doing some research about the area that has turned up material that will be quite controversial when we complete its analysis.  At any rate, this local history CD is very much a work in progress.  It includes such items as a quantitative analysis of the alleged land speculation in Colonial times, the conclusions of which will surprise many.  We've no date yet for this one.  We've collected considerable material already, and we expect to go into high gear on this sometime in 2010. Items on this CD will include (in addition to the land speculation material and the other independent research still in progress):

• Grave-stone Inscriptions at Salisbury, Connecticut, by Malcolm Day Rudd (1898)
• Salisbury in War Time, by Thomas Lot Norton (1910). 34 pages
• Program for the 27th annual Lakeville Horse Show (1964).  72 pages.
• Historical Collections of the Salisbury Association, Inc. Volume I (1913) and Volume II (1917).  We have additional old Salisbury Association material as well, but will need to check copyright considerations before committing to publish it.

A New History of Trinity Lime Rock

Since our principal partner is also Parish Historian of Trinity Episcopal Church in Lime Rock, it goes without saying that there is a new parish history in the works.  This will be the second parish history (the first was written in 1949, and is re-published on our Lime Rock: a Walking Tour CD-ROM -- for which a portion of the sale price of each copy is donated to Trinity).  We'll continue the practice of donating a portion of the purchase price to Trinity for this one as well, once it's available.

We plan to include in it considerable scholarship, including material about the 1883 "Crucifix Wars" of which the New York Times made so much, information about the Barnum and Richardson families and the historic iron industry, and the role of Trinity in the community, that was not included in the earlier history.  It's difficult to say when this will be published, but there is a good possibility that a limited edition will appear in hard cover before it goes to CD-ROM.  We're actively collecting information for this venture, so if you happen to have any to offer, please let us know.

We have sections with additional information about the following:

There's a free article about Norfolk, Litchfield County, CT from Volume I of the Connecticut Quarterly. 

There's also a free article about Riverside Cemetery in Middletown, CT from the Connecticut Quarterly, Volume II (1896).

Beckley Furnace -- Connecticut's only Industrial Monument -- and the Friends of Beckley Furnace. 

Here's a free article about the history of Canaan, CT from the Connecticut Quarterly, Volume I.

The Historic Upper Housatonic Iron District.  We've got some new links for you here, including new photos from the Beckley Furnace.

The Canaan/Falls Village Historical Society. 

Place names in Litchfield County that have changed  -- our own compilation.

At the present time we're assisting Trinity Church (known as "The Church that Iron Built"), located in Lime Rock (a hamlet of Salisbury) with overflow historic material from their website.   See this collection of Lime Rock historical material, and to see a CD we created from material gathered in the course of running a history walk in that historic hamlet!