We all learned about Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, right?  We need to reteach this information.  Now don’t put the paper down, this gets more interesting, I think. You know that middl ...

It won’t be long before we will be celebrating the town’s Bicentennial, 200 years after the May 28th meeting where a “true copy” of the original document outlining the resolve by the Assembly that the ...

In a few short months, Orange will be celebrating its 200th anniversary, the bicentennial.  Although the Orange Historical Society’s research center holds the key to the past, information about 1822 a ...

The American Revolution was initiated by delegates from thirteen colonies of British America against the British.  I know or hope you know that the war was fought over the issue of American independen ...

In 1830, a young Dennis Stone built a home on Orange Center Road which was actually North Main Street.  After all, streets were only dirt roads with names that fit where they were with South Main Stre ...

As you have been reading, Connecticut has a great deal of history, and since the Revolutionary War is my passion, I have focused on that portion of our history.  Well, if you think that my next county ...

The mention of the War of 1812 resounded in the halls of the Senate on the evening of January 6, 2021, a day that should have been one to rejoice that the nation’s voters’ word would be heard as each ...

South?  Florida?  No southeast to New London County.  Our first stop is Groton, located between the Thames and Mystic Rivers, originally part of New London.  John Winthrop, Jr. son of Massachusetts Go ...

Before I take you to the land of snow, I need to reflect back to Eastford for a gentleman who was a notable citizen, General Nathanial Lyon (1818-1861).  You can guess by the date of his death why he ...

I hope you were able to visit some of the towns I highlighted in my last article.  I understand from a friend that upon visiting a site, the shopkeepers, that were approached, were so excited to be as ...

If you have had a visit to the Nathan Bryan-William Andrew house, now the oldest house in Orange, you have been taken back to 1740 to the family of Nathan Bryan, father of eight, farmer and landowner. ...