Browse Items · Local History: Mansfield, CT

Wilbur L. Cross (1862-1948) was born in Mansfield. He taught at Yale before becoming Governor of Connecticut from 1931-1939. He was a major supporter of the Connecticut State College (UConn).

Tags: Biography, Connecticut History, University of Connecticut, Wilbur L. Cross, Yale University

The Indians of Connecticut: The Effect of English Colonization and of Missionary Activity on Indian Life in Connecticut

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Facsimile of the Monday April 15, 1912 Hartford Courant Reporting the Tragic Sinking of the Luxury Liner Titanic with other historic front pages from the Hartford Courant 1912-1963

Newspapers

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Joseph N. Gill Obituary

Hartford Courant obituary of a Mansfield resident

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Just Rambling

Recollections of Mansfield by Hazel Nichols born in 1891

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Connecticut Town Origins: Their Names, Boundaries, Early Histories, and First Families

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathan Hale 1776: Biography and Memorials

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Historic District Commission- Cert of Appropriateness

Files of approved changes allowed in the historic districts

Tags: Historic District, Mansfield History, Town of Mansfield

History of Avon Park Florida, 1886-1956

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Connecticut's Activities in the Wars of This Country

Describing Connecticut's participation in wars through World War I.

Tags: Civil War, Connecticut History, Mexican-American War, Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, World War I

Looking Back

Isabel B. Weigold was the former Town Historian of Willington, CT

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Roads and Road-Making in Colonial Connecticut

Tags: Colonial History to 1776, Roads

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Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

Highways and Byways of Connecticut

The History of Connecticut

Historic Towns of the Connecticut River Valley

Chronology of Pond Place/Mansfield CT Proprietary Divisions

The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Biographical Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, V.1

The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Biographical Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, V.2

Wilbur L. Cross Remembered: Reflections on the Character and Career of a Connecticut Yankee