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Litchfield (Conn.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Edward Raymond manuscript

1997-10-0

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-10-0
Scope and Contents

Typescript of "Litchfield in Three Centuries," by Edward A. Raymond (1990, 796 pp.), an historical overview of Litchfield, Conn.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1990; Other: Date acquired: 08/07/1997

Katharine Bissell Bogert Roe memoir

00-1960-23-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1960-23-0
Scope and Contents Ten-page memoir in which Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe recounts Litchfield in the 1860s when she was a teenager. She recalls visiting her Aunt Mary Bissell, other members of the Bissell and Welch families, and friends; details about the interiors and exteriors of houses; watching baseball; going to dances and the circus; riding down North Street imitating a circus performer on Dr. Gates's buggy; activities during the Civil War; giving Henry Ward Beecher an arbutus from Litchfield; and other...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1960

Stone, James Certification as Constable

00-2015-07-0

 Item
Identifier: 00-2015-07-0
Content Description

A hand written certification written by Moses Seymour as Town Clerk for James Stone to be declared Constable and Collector for the town of Litchfield.

Dates: 1809-11-13

Webster family papers

2017-11-0

 Fonds
Identifier: 2017-11-0
Abstract

The Webster family papers include Arethusa Farm records, ledgers, calendars, and postcards; documentation of a 1952 transcontinental trip to Alaska; and Litchfield photos and ephemera. Most of the family papers are from the 1870s through the 1920s.

Dates: 1867-1998

Florence Wilson collection

00-1996-22-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-22-0
Scope and Contents

Correspondence related to the Litchfield Citizens Advisory Council, 1985; news clippings of historic houses and topics, circa 1969-1985; and a map of Litchfield, circa 1980s. Florence Wilson, (1917-2009), was a public school teacher and a longtime Litchfield resident.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-1985; Other: Date acquired: 06/08/1996

Clair F. Yohe address

00-2010-255-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-255-0
Scope and Contents

Address given by Rev. Clair F. Yohe on the occasion of the celebration in Litchfield, Conn., of the tercentary of the founding of Connecticut.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935 Jul 28