Author name: Steve Fithian

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

During the second half of the 19th century the United States experienced a tremendous surge of immigration from Europe, dramatically

Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University in 1898 before going on to the University of California

During the month of September in 1938, Norwich was enjoying the type of late summer weather it had grown accustomed

The Norwich Reds baseball team was a charter member of the Connecticut State League. They won the league championship in

William Hamilton Page was born in Tilton, New Hampshire on March 14, 1829. He trained as a printer’s apprentice and

The Connecticut was the first steamboat to traverse the length of the Thames River arriving in Norwich in October 1816.

Edward (Ned) Hanlon was born in Montville, CT on August 22, 1857. The son of an Irish immigrant father who

Construction of the Wauregan Hotel began in 1853 and was completed in 1855. The grand opening of the hotel marked