#CelebratingIrishConnecticut with Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episodes like this:
ctexplored.org/griffindunnepod/

☘️☘️ #cthistory #podcast #irish #griffindunne #actor #writer #interview

#CelebratingIrishConnecticut with Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episodes like this: gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/18a-audio-only-governor-john-dempsey-son-of-cahir-audio

New Episodes return 3/15! #cthistory #podcast #stpatricksday

From New Haven to the halls of the Supreme Court, Constance Baker Motley changed the course of American history. 🏛️⚖️

We honor her today as a giant of justice whose journey toward equality began right here in the Nutmeg State.

#NewHaven #CivilRightsIcon #ConstanceBakerMotley #CTHistory

🧱💥 Stadium Vagabond: Ruins & Demo Week (many more pics on Insta/FB)

🏟️ Waterbury Municipal Stadium in CT
📸 Circa 2015

⚾🏈 Opened as a dog track, once hosted baseball & football
🗓️ Opened: 1930

⏳❓ Does anyone know what happened to the site since 2015?

#Waterbury #Connecticut #CTHistory #WaterburyCT

Beyond the Battlefield | Guided Tour - Pequot Library […]

RSVP: www.pequotlibrary.org/event/beyond...

#PequotLibrary #BeyondTheBattlefield #America250CT #LocalHistory #AmericanRevolution #CTHistory #FairfieldCT #ExploreConnecticut #HistoricVoices #MuseumMoments

Screenshot from Ken Burns American Revolution. The caption reads “Several dozen were hauled away to Simsbury, Connecticut.” The narrator continues: “and imprisoned in an abandoned copper mine seventy feet below the Earth that the Patriots called the ‘catacomb of loyalty.’”

Finally found time to watch @kenlburns.bsky.social’s #AmericanRevolution.

Nobody told me that the town where I grew up was referenced in Episode 3!

( #Simsbury was the site of an abandoned mine that served as a prison for captured Loyalists: revolutionarywarjournal.com/simsbury-min...) #CTHistory

My FATHER was there! He was 13 years old and took they day off from Catholic School just to be there. What a HISTORIC day, this must have been! 🙏 #HartfordHasIt #CTHistory ✊️❤️

The first concert at @PWStadium in nearly two decades, is TONIGHT! Thank you @chrisbrown for coming! And showing #EastHartford some love. 20 years ago today, I saw the @RollingStones play there. Then @ThePoliceBand played there in 07. Now this! A long time coming ! #CTHistory 🙏

I remember seeing news coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Hartford Circus Fire when I was in middle school. If you aren't familiar with the disaster, this website provides an excellent overview:

www.circusfire1944.com

#Connecticut #CTHistory
#Circus #CircusHistory

"Rebel Yankeys": Anatomy of a Connecticut Militia Company at Saratoga - Journal of the American Revolution Ebenezer Lathrop’s company of militia which marched from Norwich, Connecticut, to Stillwater, New York, in the autumn of 1777 makes an excellent case study to understand Connecticut’s militia forces i...

My article examining a Connecticut Militia company during the Saratoga campaign was published yesterday, check it out! 🗃️ #NutmegSky #CTHistory #ConnecticutHistory #Connecticut #Nutmeg #History #America250 #AWI #AmericanWarofIndependence #RevolutionaryWar

#CTHistory #HartfordHasIt 🙏

#nowplaying - Hear how a trio of like-minded women helped to get the Crandall Academy off the ground and the tremendous impact the school had in its short existence.

Listen: www.ctexplored.org/misscrandallsschool/

#CTHistory #WomensHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

In other news, the #Whalers played their first game in Connecticut #OnThisDay in 1975. There’s only one appropriate way to celebrate the golden anniversary of Hartford’s beloved #hockey team. It’s time for the #BrassBonanza! 🐳 🏒

#HartfordWhalers #Whalers50
#NHL #WHA #CTHistory

and everyday. May her legacy live on in us all and may her memory be a blessing! 🙏 #OpeningDay #CTPolitics #CTHistory

The history of incarceration is so rarely studied in schools that most people don’t even know America’s oldest prison is in CT.

Old Newgate Prison deserves more attention—we’re un(re)covering and sharing this story.
#MassIncarceration #EduSky
#CTHistory #HistoricSites #pbl
#CT250 #ushistory

Tuesday Trivia, October 1st 2024. franklincthistorian.org Did you know? In 1813 there were 1,486 sheep in Franklin. Each sheep gave its owner a 75¢ abatement on their grand list, as encouragement for wool production. As a result, Franklin was a regional production center of linen and wool cloth during the latter part of the first industrial revolution (1770-1840), and outproduced almost all surrounding towns with its linen and wool factories. Franklin Historical Society: 860-542-1988 P.O. box 73, North Franklin, CT 06254

🗃️ #connecticuthistory #cthistory #connecticut #history #localhistory #industrialrevolution #publichistory #localhistorian