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Windham County · September 1998
A nineteenth-century iron bridge, a church, an academy and historic houses connect transportation with the everyday landscape of Plainfield.
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![Mark Twain’s Hartford house, c.1900–1910 — [between 1900 and 1910]](/county-images/e2b0a9568f38e01933103c3512736a0a3e25c70b47e4ad792d8736b3205f6065.jpg)
Hartford County · [between 1900 and 1910]
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Hartford · Windsor
Waterbury
Groton
Windham
Mansfield
WinstedTHE COLLECTION CATALOG
Counties follow the historical geographic boundaries used in these records.
Bridgeport: Ringling Bros. Circus Headquarters postcard · 1911 reported postmark; view undatedCOLLECTION 024Entertainment and public life
Bridgeport & New Haven, Connecticut
Bridgeport winter quarters and a documented New Haven circus day, told through nineteenth-century engravings, a touring poster, a postcard, and local newspaper evidence from June 1908.
Opening / first recorded · Local winter-quarters opening date not established
Remington Arms Bridgeport, Ct. (5560513976) · 826 PARANORMAL / CC BY 2.0COLLECTION 043Industrial sites
Bridgeport
Historic factory views and later photographs trace a major Bridgeport manufacturing landscape.
Opening / first recorded · Late 1860s site development
Housatonic rail trail head 073 · Pedro Xing / CC0COLLECTION 057Railways & transit
Bridgeport · Trumbull · Monroe · Newtown
The level path through the Pequonnock valley preserves the shape of a transportation route.
Opening / first recorded · Historic railroad bed; later trail conversion
Ghost Town - Pleasure Beach · Bill / CC BY 2.0COLLECTION 073Historic lands
Bridgeport · Stratford
Photographs of recreation and abandonment trace a shoreline landscape with several distinct lives.
Opening / first recorded · 1892 amusement park origins; 1996 bridge fire
COLLECTION 082Hospitals & care
Bridgeport
A hospital’s civic origins, its nursing school and a second institutional presence in the city’s postcard record.
Opening / first recorded · Bridgeport Hospital incorporated 1878; opened 1884
New Haven Alcos at New Haven 1957 postcard · 1957. J.W. Swanberg; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 093Transportation & waterfront
New Haven · North Haven · Bridgeport · Waterbury · Greenwich
Beyond the station: locomotives, shops, freight yards and the people who kept southern New England moving.
Opening / first recorded · 1872 — New York, New Haven & Hartford formed
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