Author name: Steve Fithian

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

Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Ct on January 14, 1741. He and his sister Hannah were the only two

Before the arrival and settlement by European settlers, the area in Norwich now known as Jail Hill was the strategic

John Trumbull was born in 1756 in Lebanon, CT, the youngest of six children. His father was Jonathan Trumbull, an

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Connecticut State Legislature was seeking a solution to the overcrowding of the

Daniel Wadsworth Coit was born in Norwich, CT on November 29, 1787. During his teen years he became an apprentice

The practice of slavery in the colonial period in Connecticut began with indigenous persons captured as the result of armed

The steady economic growth of the city of Norwich during the 18th and 19th centuries was in part the result

Connecticut legally outlawed slavery in 1848 and in the ensuing decades like the rest of New England largely supported the