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Author: Maria Giannuzzi Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738549668 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1824, a group of prominent Hartford businessmen formed the Connecticut River Company to construct a canal that would bypass the treacherous rapids of Enfield Falls and extend navigation along the Connecticut River. Soon boats were a frequent sight in the village of Windsor Locks, named after the locks of the canal that ran alongside Main Street. Mills also sprang up in the area, utilizing the canals water to power their manufacturing operations. Today the canal has taken on a more historical, ecological, and recreational significance. Home to diverse plant and animal species, it is an excellent place to enjoy sweeping views of the Connecticut River and to see the factories that played a big part in the regions history.
Author: Maria Giannuzzi Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738549668 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1824, a group of prominent Hartford businessmen formed the Connecticut River Company to construct a canal that would bypass the treacherous rapids of Enfield Falls and extend navigation along the Connecticut River. Soon boats were a frequent sight in the village of Windsor Locks, named after the locks of the canal that ran alongside Main Street. Mills also sprang up in the area, utilizing the canals water to power their manufacturing operations. Today the canal has taken on a more historical, ecological, and recreational significance. Home to diverse plant and animal species, it is an excellent place to enjoy sweeping views of the Connecticut River and to see the factories that played a big part in the regions history.
Author: Melvin Montemerlo Publisher: Melvin Montemerlo ISBN: 0999576178 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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This is the fourth book in a four-volume set on the history of WIndsor Locks, CT. The first two volumes contain chapters on the important people, places and events of the town's history, which started in the mid 1600s. This third volume has a number of collections of photographs of the town that were taken in various years from 1880 to 1960, as well as chapters on specific people places and events. This fourth volume in the series is about the overall structure of the history of the town. It divides the 350 year history into four phases: Settlers, Main Street Commerce, Bradley Field Area Commerce, and Residential Community. This volume has 31 chapters, 277 pages and approximately 500 old photos of WIndsor Locks.
Author: Leslie Matthews Stansfield Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738513232 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Transportation has always played an important role in Windsor Locks, a Connecticut River town in the north central part of the state named for the canal locks built here in 1829. Expansion continued after the arrival of the railroad in the late 1860s; today, the town is an aviation center with an international airport and an important air museum. Windsor Locks explores the one-hundred-fifty-year-old town through vintage images and lively narrative, into which are woven stories of the past drawn from interviews with longtime residents. Interesting historical details include New England's first Christmas tree, created on a local farm when, in the German custom, a Hessian soldier decorated a tree; and the first female governor to be elected in her own right, Ella Grasso, born and raised here.
Author: Melvin Montemerlo Publisher: Melvin D. Montemerlo ISBN: 0999576100 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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This is the first of a series of four books on the history of Windsor Locks, Connecticut. It contains 38 chapters about important people, places and events in the history of Windsor Locks. Windsor Locks history goes from 1663, when the first settlers reached the Pine Meadow section of the town of Windsor, CT. In 1854, the Pine Meadow section of WIndsor was incorporated into the separate town of Windsor Locks. So the history of WIndsor Locks goes from 1663 to the current time (2022), which is about three and a half centuries. The first two books of this series present chapters on important people, places and events in that history. Windsor Locks History: Volume III presents a number of sets of photo of the town taken from about 1880 to 1960, and as well as more descriptive chapters. The fourth book in the series is "Understanding Windsor Locks History", which focusses on the overeall structure of that history, dividing the three and a half centuries into four distinct phases that the town's evolution that the tow has gone through. It presents "chronological historiies" of the town by three different people, and ties together the stories of the first three books to the chronological history of the town. Descriptive histories give detailed accounts of the people, places and events, while the chronological histories list the events in the order in which they occurred. You can read either approach first, but tying the two together results in a deeper understanding of the town's history.
Author: Melvin D. Montemerlo Publisher: Melvin D. Montemerlo ISBN: 0999576186 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 136
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This is the seventh book in a series on Windsor Locks, CT history. The first six books contain chapters on important people, events and places in Windsor Locks History. This is an attempt to make a shorter overview of some of the most important things that have happened in town history, and the people who made them happen. Sixty three accomplishments and the persons who were responsible for them are listed and described BRIEFLY. Each accomplishment has a two-page chapter. This book was written for people who are looking for an overview rather than completeness. The first six books contain about 250 chapters and over 2400 pages. This book contains only 131 pages.
Author: Andrea Pippins Publisher: Schwartz & Wade ISBN: 1984849506 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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For fans of I Am Enough, The Day You Begin, and The Wonderful Things You Will Be, here is a poignant picture book about how family and community help shape the wonderful people our children become. My child, my little one, Who will you be when you are grown? There's loving kindness in your eyes, like your daddy's and boldness in your heart, like your grandma's. Will you be like them? So begins this loving picture book about a mama who wonders who her child will grow up to be. Will her little one be curious like Grandpa and adventurous like Auntie Amina? Compassionate like Amy and joyful like cousin Curlena? Moving from family members to the wider community, she muses about which attributes her child will possess. A perfect gift for a baby shower, birthday, or graduation. Who Will You Be? features gorgeous artwork and gentle words that celebrate childhood and is an ode to the power of our village--and a reminder that every child is uniquely wonderful.
Author: Melvin Montemerlo Publisher: Melvin Montemerlo ISBN: 0999576135 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
This is the second book in a four volume set on the history of WIndsor Locks, Connecticut. The first two volumes contain chapters on the important people, places and events of the town's history, which started in the mid 1600s. The third volume has a number of collections of photographs of the town that were taken in various years from 1880 to 1960, as well as chapters on specific people places and events. The fourth volume in the series is about the overall structure of the history of the town. It divides the 350 year history into four phases: Settlers, Main Street Commerce, Bradley Field Area Commerce, and Residential Community. This volume (Volume II) has 42 chapters, 360 pages and approximately 500 old photos of WIndsor Locks.
Author: Melvin Montemerlo Publisher: Melvin D. Montemerlo ISBN: 0999576143 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
This is the third book in a four volume set on the history of WIndsor Locks, CT. The first two volumes contain chapters on the important people, places and events of the town's history, which started in the mid 1600s. This third volume has a number of collections of photographs of the town that were taken in various years from 1880 to 1960, as well as chapters on specific people places and events. The fourth volume in the series is about the overall structure of the history of the town. It divides the 350 year history into four phases: Settlers, Main Street Commerce, Bradley Field Area Commerce, and Residential Community. This volume (Volume III) has 26 chapters, 208 pages and approximately 300 old photos of WIndsor Locks.
Author: Maria Giannuzzi
Author: Maria Giannuzzi
Author: Melvin Montemerlo
Author: Leslie Matthews Stansfield
Author: Melvin Montemerlo
Author: Melvin D. Montemerlo
Author: Henry Reed Stiles
Author: Andrea Pippins
Author: Melvin Montemerlo
Author: Melvin Montemerlo
Author: Connecticut. State Commissioners of Fisheries and Game