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Our currently available Connecticut titles include the following:
Scrap Book of North Canaan
 for
more information
Annals of Winchester
for
more information
New Milford: 230 Years
for more information
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
for more information.
Connecticut titles currently in progress:
(Nothing right now -- let us know what you
would like to see!)
Forthcoming Connecticut titles:
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.
for more
information.
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 2007 for this
CD-ROM, and will probably undertake it following the Middletown
Collection (see above) depending on interest. Let us hear from
you! Join our mailing list!
The Copper Industry in Connecticut.
for more information.
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 2008 or 2009 -- 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.
for more information.
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? Again, this is not on our list of
high priorities. Tell us if you want to see it soon.
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 important cases) to other aspects that may have actually been far more
important. 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 2008. 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 of this website with additional information about the
following:
Beckley Furnace -- Connecticut's only Industrial Monument -- and the Friends of
Beckley Furnace
for more information
The Historic Upper Housatonic Iron District.
We've got some new links for you here, including new photos from the
Beckley Furnace, where we volunteer.
for more information.
The Canaan/Falls Village Historical Society
for more information
Place names in Litchfield County that have changed
for more information
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.
to see this collection of material, and to see a CD we created from
material gathered in the course of running a history walk in that historic
hamlet! |
