Litchfield (Conn.) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Katharine Bissell Bogert Roe memoir
00-1960-23-0
Collection — Box 1
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:
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
Scope and Contents
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.In 1868, Charles Baldwin Webster (1822-1912) Charles purchased a farm in Litchfield, CT, that he and his wife Lucinda Baldwin (1830-1871) named Arethusa, which remained in the Webster family until it was sold in 1981.The...
Dates:
1867-1998
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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Webster Family Papers
Florence Wilson collection
00-1996-22-0
Collection — Box 1
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:
Created: 1969-1985; Other: Date acquired: 06/08/1996
Clair F. Yohe address
00-2010-255-0
Collection — Box 1
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:
Created: 1935 Jul 28
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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Clair F. Yohe address