In honor of the great article Mike Torelli wrote about Jube Road for the Cheshire Herald I though we’d take a look back at some of the Herald’s predecessors like the Conn. Ec-Lec-Tic Weekly or the Cheshire Standard. Cheshire has had a few newspapers over the last 100+ years unfortunately […]
19th century
5 posts
I recently pulled a box of diaries from the archives at work. The diaries span from 1868 to 1890 and were written by Alonzo E. Smith of Cheshire. Smith, well known in his day was a carpenter by trade, but he also acted as an undertaker, was an Assessor, Probate Judge […]
Today was another one of those days that I found a little nugget in the course of my day job. I was working with an autograph book from 1861 from our General Assembly Portraits collection (PG540) and found a prominent Cheshire citizen, William T. Peters. Collecting autographs was a popular activity […]
So being a history geek (more like a history addict really) I love to simply dig through old records. The things you find can be truly fascinating as well as downright hysterical! I was recently looking through some vital records for Cheshire, Connecticut, my hometown. Now mind you Cheshire today […]
I have the coolest job in the world. I get to digitize old photos and manuscripts from Connecticut’s history. I get to do some research about these images so I can properly describe them so you can find them. Then I get to create cool projects around them. Did I mention […]