SILENT GROUNDS COLLECTIVE · THE CONNECTICUT ARCHIVE
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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.
Scovill: dam on John D’s Pond · Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; photographer not identified in source metadata / Public domainCOLLECTION 042Industrial sites
Waterbury
Factory interiors and exteriors document the buildings behind Waterbury’s brass industry.
Opening / first recorded · 1802 predecessor firm
New Haven Railroad RDC and Waterbury Union Station clock tower, August 1968 · Roger Puta / Public domainCOLLECTION 061Railways & transit
Waterbury
A landmark tower and 1968 railroad photographs place Waterbury within a regional passenger network.
Opening / first recorded · 1909 station building
Abandoned railroad bridge over Washington Avenue in Waterbury, March 2023 · Pi.1415926535 / CC BY-SA 4.0COLLECTION 062Railways & transit
Waterbury · Meriden · Cheshire
Bridgework in Waterbury preserves traces of a railroad that disappeared in stages.
Opening / first recorded · 1885 opening; 1888 Waterbury extension
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
Destruction after Hurricane Diane · August 1955. NOAA; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 101Disasters & community memory
Waterbury · Winsted · New Hartford · Norwalk · Derby · Naugatuck
Streets became rivers, bridges failed and communities rebuilt: a photographic record of Connecticut’s devastating flood year.
Opening / first recorded · August 18–19, 1955 · October 15–17, 1955
Holy Land USA photographic postcard — early 1960s · Early 1960sCOLLECTION 162Faith & community
Waterbury
Explore John Greco’s miniature biblical landscape on Pine Hill, its closure and restoration, through an early-1960s photographic postcard and clearly dated later photographs.
1956–1986, with later views through 2022
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