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Collection
Identifier: 00-2013-129-0
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Four letters (2013-129-0) concerning the hotel and business at the South Farms Inn property in Morris, Conn. Originally a boarding house owned by Horatio Benton, it was known as the South Farms Inn in 1898 and into the early 1900s. Owned by the Litchfield Springs Co. of New York for a few years starting in 1901, it was hailed as a health resort with medicinal mineral springs. Some of the spring waters were bottled and sold. Plans to develop the resort into another Saratoga Springs type...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2015
Item
Identifier: 00-2018-03-0
Abstract
South Street postcard
Dates:
about early 1900s
Collection
Identifier: 2002-51-0
Abstract
19 photographs of Open House days including Junior Hostesses for the 1947 Open House day for the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society of Connecticut; views of house interiors and exteriors, and related subjects; also a clipping concerning the Junior Hostesses in 1947. Photographs taken by Clinton Kellogg.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1940s; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/2003
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-349-0
Scope and Contents
Minutes of special meetings of the town of Litchfield, Conn., held to address matters related to the Civil War. Typed transcipt also included.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1861-1865; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-357-0
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Specimen of bank note engraving with scripts and illustrations printed by V. Balch & S. Stiles of Utica, N.Y.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1825; Other: Date acquired: 06/09/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-2008-35-0
Abstract
The Hiram S. Spencer Ledger collection (2011-35-0) is a personal account book that was used by Hiram S. Spencer. The book has records of money received and given ranging from purchasing wagon irons to receiving money for “five days works haying.” Spencer served in Company A, Second Regiment, C.V. Heavy Artillery, from 1862-65, but there are no Civil War expenditures or notations in the ledger.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1822-1866; Other: Date acquired: 07/11/2008
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
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
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
Collection
Identifier: 1951-30-0
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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
