Box 1
Contains 27 Results:
Bantam Road views - Bushnell Elm
Photograph of the Bushnell Elm [now gone] on the corner of Bantam Road and Bantam Lake Road. Also visible is St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a house on the corner [now gone].
Beach Street site - Beach District School
A small black and white photograph donated to the Society in 1913 by Dr. Peck. The school closed in 1907. The exact location and demise of the school are unknown but a school appears on the 1874 map on the east side of Beach Street at the intersection with Butternut Brook Road.
Bantam Lake (Camp Agaming)
Seven small black and white photographs of a camp, probably Camp Agaming, on Bantam Lake. Shown in the photographs are small conical tents and a larger tent, possibly the dining hall. Also photographs of a float and an outdoor meeting area. A postcard, not in the collection, of Camp Agaming has similarly shaped tents. circa 1920s. [accession 2003-70-0]
Bantam Road #370
Homestead of Elizabeth (Williamson) Hunt and George H. Hunt. Later owners included Charles E. and Bettina Youmans; Robert & Marion Wilton (1974- )
Bantam - Cathole Road
Cathole Road, earlier know as North Road in a black & white photograph taken in 1890s by Arthur Bissell. The photo shows a dirt road with a group of people on the side.
Bantam - Saw mill, 1919
Five men operating an antique saw mill. The photograph was donated by Santino Evangelisti, an owner of the Bantam Lumber Co., no longer in business.The center figure is Augusto Evangelisti, father of donor. The right had figure is Augusto Luize (Luzi).
Bantam River views
Views along the Bantam River. Exact locations are not indicated. Included are a stereograph by J.L. Judd, Litchfield, Conn. of a wooden bridge on the River; a reprint of a painting titled "Love Grove on Bantam River" from the album of Mary Peck; and a very small black & white photograph taken June 1926.
Bantam Road #802
St. Paul's Episcopal Church was built in 1843. Included are a stereograph by Landon, Photographer, New Milford, Conn. that was taken about 1860, and a later black and white from the 1960s or 1970s.
Blue Swamp Road site
Smith Carriage factory and house includes Chester F. Smith homestead and factory photographs taken about 1910.
Bantam Road #822
A small black and white photograph of the Bantam Fire House taken about 1920 when it was only one story, with Bantam's first motorized fire truck, an American LaFrance. On the truck are Charles Peno or Deno, R. Curry, H. Kilbourn.