Snippets from Norwich History

As a young boy growing up on a farm in Salem, CT during the early years of the 19th century, […]

Donald Grant Mitchell was born to Alfred and Lucretia Mitchell in Norwich on April 12, 1822. As a young boy,

Born in England in 1606, John Winthrop Jr. had a wide-ranging intellectual appetite. He became well-versed in the fields of

Lafayette Sabine Foster was born in Franklin, Connecticut on November 22. 1806. He received his early education in the local

During the waning weeks of a New England winter in early March of 1860, Abraham Lincoln visited Norwich during his

Harry and Mattie Land’s second son Edwin was born on May 7, 1909 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. When Edwin was ten

Bela Lyon Pratt was born on December 11, 1876 in Norwich Connecticut. His parents were Sarah Whittlesey and George Pratt,

During the late summer of 1862 in the midst of the American Civil War, John Almy received a contract from

Decades of Great Britain’s mercantilist policies containing severe trade restrictions and onerous taxation had laid the groundwork for beginning of

Born in the Jail Hill section of Norwich in 1810, David Ruggles was raised in a neighborhood on Bean Hill