Connecticut--History

Abstract The Cos Cob Power Plant, an electrical power plant located in Greenwich, Connecticut, was part of a pioneering venture in mainline railroad electrification. With the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad designed an efficient system using alternating-current (ac) electrification that facilitated railroad traffic into urban areas after the New York legislature passed laws prohibiting the use of steam locomotives in New York City south...

Scope and Contents Included in this collection are genealogical records, charts, and notes, books, birth certificates, house and property maps and plans, cemetery plot maps, family letters, wills, bills, receipts, photographs, advertising cards, society memberships, early nineteenth century letters from William Sackett at Yale to his father, jewelry, coins, locks of hair, information on the transfer of the Ferris property "Willowmere" to the Nature Conservancy, several copies of "Eighty Years" by Mary A....

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This collection consists of 5 Scrapbooks donated by the Green Fingers Garden Club

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Lydia Stevens (1918-2014) served in the legislature as a Connecticut State Representative from 1988-1992. The collection consists of political and personal correspondences, clippings, speeches, reports and memorabilia, which reflect Stevens' participation in State and local politics and in numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Scope and Contents The materials in this collection are primarily comprised of documents and correspondence amassed over his time as a founding member of the Historic District Commission and his creation of the Greenwich Land Trust as an offshoot of the Audubon Society. The papers are separated by property, or by institution if they are broader Historic District Commission internal documents, or documents related to specific mandates or arguments. They are focused entirely between the 1970s and 1990s, during...

Scope and Contents The Garden Club of Old Greenwich Collection includes a variety of historical material dating back to the Club’s beginning in 1924. Record types include constitutions and by-laws, as well as meeting minutes from general club, board, executive, and other committees, appear here. The minutes are by far the most consistent chronologically within the Collection and run from 1931 to 2010. Other administrative records include financial notebooks and registers, membership records and lists,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, drawings, and scrapbooks relating to publisher Thomas Dewart, his father William T. Dewart, and their publishing and business activities, especially their work on the New York Sun, purchased by Frank Munsey in 1912. Along with a selection of records from Munsey, the collection also includes records of the family estate in Greenwich, Connecticut and personal records of family members: Grandfather William Dewart Sr., Mother Mary Wheeler...

Scope and Contents This collection includes real estate information and photographs from Town & Country Properties of Greenwich. The real estate records, dated from 1947-1985, are arranged into three series - arranged by Address, by Street Name, and by Owner Surname. The information included on the real estate cards include property address, owner information, listing prices and sales prices, MLS information and property blurbs. The bulk of the collection, 52 boxes, is found in the Address series and...