Browse Items · Local History: Mansfield, CT

Cummings was an important painter, known for miniatures done in watercolor. He helped found the National Academy of Design.

Tags: Art, Photographs

Free Men: The Amistad Revolt and the American Anti-Slavery Movement

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The Underground Railroad in Connecticut

Tags: National Bicentennial 1976, Slavery

Among First Patriots: A Brief History of Lebanon, Connecticut

Tags: Colonial History to 1776, Connecticut Towns, Lebanon

Self-Guiding Nature Trail: Schoolhouse Brook Park, Mansfield, Connecticut

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A Look Into... Pond Place

Pond Place was the name originally used for what became Mansfield Center.

Tags: Colonial History to 1776, Mansfield History

Cape Verdeans in Connecticut: A Community History

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The Three Lives of the Town of Mansfield, Connecticut

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The Wilbur L. Cross Centennial Celebration, 1862-1962

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Whistletown Wilds

Description of the history and people of a neighborhood of East Lyme, Connecticut historically known as "Whistletown" by a longtime local resident

Tags: Connecticut History, East Lyme

The Cream Hill Agricultural School: West Cornwall CT

Tags: Connecticut Towns, Farming, Schools, West Cornwall

Old Connecticut: Being an Account of its Men and Manners, Lawyers, Innkeepers, Merchants, Farmers, Country Squires, Peddlers, and Beggars

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A Lost Village

Section of Cross's autobiography

Tags: Biography, Wilbur L. Cross

Friends of the Mansfield Library Newsletter: The Evolution of the Mansfield Library

Tags: Mansfield History, Mansfield Public Library

Mystic Seaport: A Camera Impression

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The Mansfield Poor House: A Forgotten Institution, 1861-1922

Mansfield's Poor House, established in 1861, was on the grounds of Maple View Farm and run by the local Barrows and Gardiner families.

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Listen to the Echoes: The Early History of Spring Hill

Tags: Mansfield History, Spring Hill

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

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Connecticut Yesterday and Today: A Selected Bibliography for Connecticut Schools

Photograph of Thomas Seir Commings, 1804-1894