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Wethersfield’s Homebuilders: 1634 – 1900
January 21, 2013by Jim Meehan “There are no dividends to compare with the comfort and contentment, no returns equal to the personal pride felt by the man who owns the home that shelters his family.” – Alfred G. Hubbard, Wethersfield Homebuilder But the living quarters constructed in 1633 by John Oldham and …
Wethersfield’s Homebuilders: 1940s and Beyond
“There are no dividends to compare with comfort and contentment, no returns equal to the personal pride felt by the man who owns the home that shelters his family.” – Alfred G. Hubbard, Wethersfield Homebuilder But the living quarters constructed in 1633 by John Oldham and the other “Ten Adventurers” …
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Wethersfield’s Homebuilders: 1900 – 1930
By Jim Meehan “There are no dividends to compare with comfort and contentment, no returns equal to the personal pride felt by the man who owns the home that shelters his family.” – Alfred G. Hubbard, Wethersfield Homebuilder But the living quarters constructed in 1633 by John Oldham and the …
Sgt. Maj. Robert H. Kellogg, "I wonder if they know at home of our real condition here."
October 22, 2011“I wonder if they know at home of our real condition here.” When Sergeant Major Robert H. Kellogg described the first night in Andersonville Prison he said that “there were ten deaths on our side of the camp that night. The old prisoners called it ‘being exchanged,’ and truly it …
Great News from the Capital Campaign
July 7, 2023Wethersfield Historical Society is pleased to announce an award of a $500,000 Good to Great grant from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and Connecticut Humanities for the second phase of the restoration of the Hurlbut-Dunham House located on Main Street in the center of Old Wethersfield. …
WHS Capital Campaign to preserve the Hurlbut-Dunham House
April 4, 2023We have Big Plans… And we invite you to be a part of them! Help Save the House at the Heart of Old Wethersfield. Wethersfield is proud of our status as Connecticut’s first town, its oldest and largest historic district, and recently named the first cultural district in the greater …
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Irish Immigrants in Wethersfield from 1860 to 1900: Outcasts to Neighbors
January 6, 2023Irish Immigrants in Wethersfield from 1860 to 1900 by Julia Pizzoferrato Wethersfield’s proximity to Connecticut’s bustling capitol, Hartford, made the town a convenient landing place for many Irish immigrants from 1860 to 1900. Both Hartford and Wethersfield offered employment opportunities to new residents either as domestic servants, farm laborers, or …
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WHS Book Talk
April 7, 2021Wethersfield Historical Society Museum Educator Gillie Johnson conducts an online interview with author Dean Karau about his book “The History of Wethersfield 2.0”. Karau’s book details the founding of Wethersfield, Illinois and its connections to Connecticut’s “most auncient towne”. Author Dean Karau was born in Kewanee, Illinois, in 1949. In 1960, …
Slavery and Wethersfield
February 19, 2021Slavery and Wethersfield by Martha Smart The past is never dead. It is not even past. William Faulkner Sugar and Slavery The popular book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare in 1957, tells the story of Kit Tyler, orphaned on Barbados, traveling to relatives in Wethersfield …