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Sylvester Spencer lease
00-2010-328-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-328-0
Scope and Contents
Lease to James H. Cooke for certain premises in Litchfield, Conn.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1846 Mar 31; Other: Date acquired: 03/09/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Allen Sperry house at 85 Duck Pond Road
00-2014-33-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2014-33-0
Abstract
Research on 85 Duck Pond Road (2014-33-0) sent to Allan Sperry when he owned the property. Includes informaton from Andrew Pikosky and Lloyd Wellnitz.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
William Buell Sprague papers
1928-23-0
Collection
Identifier: 1928-23-0
Scope and Contents
Papers related to William Buell Sprague (1795-1876), clergyman and autograph collector. He was born in Andover, Conn, a son of Benjamin Sprague and Sybil Buell. William Sprague's great grand uncle, John Buell, was one of the original proprietors of Litchfield. After graduation from Yale in 1815, Sprague was a private tutor, studied two years at Princeton theological seminary. In 1819, he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Mass., remaining there until...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-1867; Other: Date acquired: 01/11/1929
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Spring Hill School collection
1951-30-0
Collection
Identifier: 1951-30-0
Scope and Contents
The Spring Hill School collection (1951-30-0, .83 linear feet) documents a private school modelled on a philosophy of progressive education. Founded by Dorothy Bull and Mabel Foster Spinney in Litchfield, Conn., the school operated from 1926 to 1939. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, institutional records, brochures, and published editions of student work. The collection also contains tributes to co-founders Bull from 1934 and Spinney from 1951 and a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1951
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Spring Hill School photographs
00-2011-13-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-13-0
Scope and Contents
The Spring Hill School photographs (2011-13-0, .92 linear feet) document the activities of students circa 1930 at Spring Hill School, a private school located in Litchfield, Conn. The founders of the school used a progressive education model, and the photographs depict social, recreational, and scholastic activities, including images of horseback riding, making maple sugar, the study of geography, students in their quarters, and a Roman dinner, among other topics. The photographs are mounted...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1930; Other: Date acquired: 02/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
St. Anthony's church fire photographs
00-2018-35-0
File
Identifier: 00-2018-35-0
St. Michael's Church Book of Memorials
2011-111-0
Collection
Identifier: 2011-111-0
Abstract
The St. Michael's Church Book of Memorials (2011-111-0) is a record book about gifts given to St. Michael's Church in Litchfield, Connecticut from 1837-1943. This appears to be a handwritten copy of an earlier volume. The book gives the name of the item, the year it was given, who gave the item, and then a discription of the item. The record only uses about 31 pages of the book. In the back of the book there is a sermon about how one uses their time which has three dates on it 1846, 1849,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1837-1943
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
St. Michael's Parish records
1988-09-0
Collection
Identifier: 1988-09-0
Abstract
The records of St. Michael's Parish (1988-09-0) consist of membership lists; certificates of membership and leaving the church; tax lists; early financial records; a few photographs of the church and its rectors; miscellaneous histories and programs for events; and maps of the Litchfield Land Company lands, 1939-1959.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1795-1995; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1987
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
St. Michael's Parish Vital Records
00-2011-108-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-108-0
Abstract
The St. Michael's Parish Vital Records collection (2011-108-0) is comprised of two volumes of transcripts. The first volume ranges from 1757-1870 and covers burials (separated by race), communicants, confirmations, deaths (separated by race), and marriages (separated by race). The second volume covers only baptisms from the years 1750-1867. Each volume is organized alphabetically, not chronologically. The records give the name of the person and the date of whatever service they received.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1750-1870; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
St. Paul's Lodge No. 11, Grand Lodge of Connecticut, A. M. & F. M. records
1975-03-0
Collection
Identifier: 1975-03-0
Scope and Contents
The records of St. Paul's Lodge No. 11, Grand Lodge of Connecticut, A. M. & F. M. consist of minutes (typically kept in bound volumes labeled "Records"), correspondence, degree certificates, cash and dues books, photographs, publications, ephemera, and other items. The records also document the activities of Darius Chapter 16, Royal Arch Masons and Buel Council No. 20, Royal and Select Masters.
The records contain a complete run of minutes from 1781 through 1948. Early members are...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1781-2010; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society