Author: William Phipps BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamden (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
History of the Town of Hamden, Connecticut
Author: William Phipps BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamden (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Hamden
Author: Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Hamden is nicknamed "the Land of the Sleeping Giant" after the series of hills within its bounds that resemble a recumbent giant. But Hamden is much more than the resting place of the legendary "Hobbomock." The town's history is illustrated here in Hamden, which contains photographs dating from the 1840s through the late 1900s. These vintage images depict the contours of community life in Hamden. The collection highlights famous residents, including Eli Whitney and Thornton Wilder; local eccentrics, including the wandering Leatherman and William Beamish, a female printer who lived as a man; changes in the land from forest to farmland to suburbia; businesses, institutions, civic organizations, and churches; and people at play-from skaters on Lake Whitney to hikers on the Sleeping Giant.
History of the Town of Hamden
Author: William P. BlakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780832828867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
History of New Haven County, Connecticut
Author: John L. RockeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Reference List on Connecticut Local History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Quinnipiac
Author: John MentaPublisher: Yale Univ Peabody Museum
ISBN: 9780913516225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
History of the Town of Hamden, Connecticut
Author: William Phipps BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: A-E. nos. 1-1600. 1907
Author: Stanislaus Vincent HenkelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Old Leather Man
Author: Dan W. DeLucaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and speaking only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man, and includes maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters, the houses he was known to stop at along his way, and of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut’s caves his home. Ebook Edition Note: Six of the 111 illustrations have been redacted.
