From the archives
- Tue. 11/03
Upriver History: On Nov. 3, 1817, Enfield's town meeting chose its officers
Voters took a freeman's oath then; the town's election notice still calls them electors.
- Mon. 11/02
Upriver History: On Nov. 2, 1887, Suffield voted $3,000 for its Civil War monument
A first try in 1865 had fallen apart; this time the vote was unanimous.
- Sun. 11/01
Upriver History: The 1842 church that made Somers Center the center of town
Its builders told the architect to copy two other churches, and the steeple still anchors the historic district.
- Sat. 10/31
Upriver History: Windsor Locks' Memorial Hall, a Civil War memorial built to last 'forever'
A mill owner paid for the granite hall, and a deed clause kept it standing.
- Fri. 10/30
On This Day, 1752: Scantic parish votes 500 pounds for its first meetinghouse
The vote launched a fight over where the church should stand that took most of a year.
- Thu. 10/29
On This Day, 1739: Enfield hires a schoolmaster and pays for its gallery pews
A fall town meeting 287 years ago set money aside for a three-month school term.
- Thu. 10/22
Connecticut's only Shaker village farmed its way into Enfield history
A National Register nomination describes the Enfield Shakers, who built their first buildings here in the 1780s, peaked between 1830 and 1860, sold garden seeds statewide and left in 1917.
- Wed. 10/21
249 years after Saratoga, Enfield's own papers show how a river town fed the Revolution
On Oct. 17, 1777, Burgoyne's army surrendered at Saratoga. Records kept by the Enfield Historical Society show how Enfield and Somers supplied men, orders and blankets to the war that turned there.
- Thu. 10/15
Upriver History: Somersville, the woolen mill that built a village
Somers | How the Somersville Manufacturing Company shaped a Scantic River mill village.