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Cheney Brothers personnel records
Searchable database of employee personnel cards, scanned at UConn's Dodd Center. Scroll down to find alphabetical categories.
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Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District: Preservation and Development Plan
This 93-page booklet was created in 1980, shortly after the National Park Service designated the Landmark District in
Manchester. The booklet includes vintage maps, photos, a history of the District and its designation, and the people
involved in the designation and planning. Note: This is a large document, so use of a high-speed internet connection is
recommended. The Town appoints members to the Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District Commission, which
meets on the first Thursday of the month at Town Hall. More information about the Commission can be found in the
next article.
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Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District: Commission
The Manchester Historical Society works with the Commission, and the Society President is an ex-officio member of the
Commission. Information on the establishment of the District as a National Landmark can be found in the
previous article.
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Connecticut Firemen's Historical Society Museum
The Fire Museum is housed in a retired 1901 fire station that saw the transition from hand-drawn
to horse-drawn, then to motorized apparatus. The collection includes a working Gamewell Fire Alarm System, and hundreds of
examples of early American craftsmanship related to firefighting such as glassware, lighting, leather-making, photography,
textiles and paintings.
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East Cemetery Graves Listing
Viewers can look up information that's inscribed on gravestones in the East Cemetery, Manchester, CT. This database was
completed in 2002, so newer gravestones may not be listed.
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Imagine Main Street
This organization's mission is to revitalize the Downtown historic district through the economic and cultural impetus of the arts, including performance, galleries, pop-up stores, public art and sculpture and beautification projects.
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Little Theatre of Manchester: Cheney Hall
A regional entertainment center in an 1869 theater designed by Hammatt Billings.
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Living Places: Cheney Brothers Historic District
A 13-page description of the National Register's Cheney Brothers Historic District in the
"Living Places" website.
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Living Places: Manchester Historic District
A 22-page description of the National Register's Manchester Historic District in the
"Living Places" website.
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Living Places: Main Street Manchester Historic District
An 8-page description of the National Register's Main Street (Manchester) Historic District
in the "Living Places" website.
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Living Places: Union Village Historic District
An 11-page description of the National Register's Union Village Historic District in the
"Living Places" website.
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Lutz Children's Museum
Educational organization and museum inspired by Hazel Lutz and now located in the former South School building,
constructed 1923 and used as an elementary school until 1982.
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Manchester Firefighters Memorial
Garden
A garden memorializing firefighters dedicated in 2002 with a special tribute to the 343 New York Firefighters lost at the
World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Manchester Historical
Society President's YouTube Channel
A YouTube channel established by Historical Society President Jack Prior to hold appropriate videos. The specific
videos are also identified in the "Selected You Tube Videos" section on this page below.
Work on the site was abandoned in 2018.
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Manchester Land Trust
A conservation organization that preserves land in Manchester, East Hartford, Vernon, Bolton, and Andover.
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Manchester Road Race
A world-class and historic race where thousands of runners compete each Thanksgiving.
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Manchester Sports Hall of Fame
A tribute to Manchester's athletes, coaches, journalists and others who have contributed to the world of sports. The
exhibit is housed at the Manchester Historical Society's Old Manchester Museum.
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Pitkin Glass Works
The ruins of the former glass factory are located at the corner of Parker and Putnam Streets, not far from Manchester Green.
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Pride in Manchester Week and Heritage Day
A week of events celebrating Manchester's diversity, arts, and history. Held each June, with dozens of free events for
young and old.
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Public Access Television
Manchester Public Access Television Channel 15 serves the towns of Manchester, South Windsor, Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield and
Newington.
Note: A high-speed internet connection is recommended.
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Silk City Television
This is the website for Silk City Television, Channel 16 in Manchester, Connecticut, which is Manchester's Government and
Education Television Station. It will broadcast Board meetings as well as a large variety of shows dedicated to town
departments, school events, and other Town-related activities.
Note: A high-speed internet connection is recommended.
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Silk City Television: Manchester
Historical Society Videos on Demand
You can now watch our Historical Society television shows online! Silk City Television now has available selected videos
produced by the Society, which you can select for immediate viewing. Click the above link to access the Silk City
Television web site. Input historical
into the search box and click "Go" to get the list of videos. Click a video you're interested in to bring up detailed
information on it. To view it, click the Watch Now link. Note: A high-speed internet connection is
recommended.
• C. 1625 Map of Indian Trails & Villages This map was created in 1930 to depict trails and villages of the native people of Connecticut. Note that Mathias Spiess, co-author of the 1923 History of Manchester, compiled the information for the map. Additional information in the lower right corner of the map.
• C. 1780 Washington-Rochambeau March Route The Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail passes right through Manchester! You can see the route on this map, and zoom in on Manchester. The Historic Trail, related to events during the American Revolution, is part of the National Park Service.
• Early Map of Connecticut Circa 1800 zoomable map of Connecticut, "from the best authorities delineated & engraved by A. Doolittle," created by Amos Doolittle (1754-1832), and published in an 1813 atlas. Manchester, incorporated in 1823, is not a town on the map, but the area is there, with rivers and a glassworks.
• 1854 Railroad & Telegraph Map Zoomable map of New England's railroad and telegraph lines, 1854, from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.
• 1855 Smith's Map of Hartford County With businesses, home owners, and inset of Cheeneyville, drawing of W.H.Jones residence and silk mill. Takes a moment to download.
• 1869 Map of Manchester With rivers, school districts, businesses, home owners. Takes a moment to download. Thanks to Dick Jenkins for graphics work on this map.
• 1869 Map of North Manchester An 1869 map of North Manchester, with an emphasis on mills, houses, and water.
• 1869 Map of South Manchester An 1869 map of South Manchester, with an emphasis on the Cheney Mills, which can be contrasted with the current Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District Map.
• 1880 View of North Manchester An aerial panoramic map of North Manchester, dated 1880, from the UConn library. This down-loadable map is zoomable and printable, but it is very large and may take considerable time to download.
• 1880 View of South Manchester An aerial panoramic map of South Manchester, dated 1880, from the UConn library. The map is zoomable and printable, but it is very large and may take considerable time to download.
• Circa 1885-1890 Map of North Manchester The map includes Suffield and Somers -- scroll down to see Manchester. As to the date -- the New York and New England Railroad operated from 1873 to 1893, and the date of Starkweather Street house is 1885, so the map is from that era.
• 1892 map of Manchester from the Bowers town directory.
• 1902 map of Manchester from the Bowers town directory.
• 1911 Map of Connecticut Street Railways "to Accompany the Report of the Railroad Commissioners, 1911. Publisher Lith. Kellogg & Bulkely, Hartford, Conn. Original located at UConn�s Babbidge Map Library." Along with Connecticut's trolleys and railroads, look for Manchester's main line, Cheney railroad spur, and trolleys going to Buckland and Rockville. This down-loadable map is zoomable and printable, but it is large and may take considerable time to download.
• 1914 Map of Manchester An aerial panoramic map of Manchester, dated 1914, on the Library of Congress web site. The map is zoomable and printable. Or, view the 1914 map as a PDF on our web site, which may take some time to download.
• 1928 Geological Survey Map of Manchester Updated at different times. Includes geological features of the central part of Manchester. Produced by U.S. Department of the Interior -- more info U.S. Geological Survey.
• 1931 Trolley & Busline map Showing Manchester's streets, with trolley and buslines drawn over. Many thanks to Dick Jenkins who sent us this map.
• 1932 South Manchester Railway ("Cheney Railroad") Map Many thanks to Joe Gibilisco who sent us this map, dated November 1932, of the Right-of-Way and Track Map of the South Manchester Railroad.
• 1934 Manchester Map An interactive, zoomable, aerial map of Manchester dating from April, 1934, from the Connecticut State Library's 'Digital Collections' offerings.
• 1934 Neighborhood Comparison Map Using a zoomable aerial map of Manchester, this site compares the 1934 neighborhood side-by-side with a present-day Google map. Provided by UConn's Map and Geographic Information Center (Magic).
• Circa 1940 Chamber of Commerce Map of Manchester with listings of "public buildings, public schools, churches, and manufacturers."
• 1946 Map of Manchester Zoomable map from the 1946 Manchester Directory published by Price and Lee (the entire directory is available on our web site HERE). Note that many of the town directories had a map, but sometimes maps got separated from their directories and are misplaced.
• 1948 Case Mountain map, revised in 1964, Shenipsit Trails. By L.M. Porter.
• 1949 Map of Manchester Zoomable map from the 1949 Manchester Directory published by Price and Lee.
• 1952 Geological Survey Map of Manchester Updated 1959. Includes location of houses and geological features of the central part of Manchester. Produced by U.S. Department of the Interior -- more info U.S. Geological Survey.
• "Discovery" map 2020, showing businesses and attractions in the center and south of Manchester. Listings on the reverse of the "Discovery" map.
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Cigar History: 1878-1915
Connecticut grew a lot of tobacco for cigars from the eighteenth century through the 1970s in Manchester, and into the
Twenty-First century in other Connecticut towns. This web site describes the history of cigars and tobacco growing.
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Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
The mission of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism is to preserve and promote Connecticut's cultural and
tourism assets in order to enhance the quality of life and economic vitality of the State. The Historic Preservation and
Museum Division functions under state and federal law as Connecticut's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). The
division administers a range of federal and state programs that identify, register and protect the buildings, sites,
structures, districts and objects that comprise Connecticut's cultural heritage.
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Connecticut Firemen's Historical Society Museum
The Fire Museum is housed in a retired 1901 fire station with a unique atmosphere that saw the transition from hand drawn
to horse drawn, then to motorized apparatus. In addition to a working Gamewell Fire Alarm System, our collection includes
hundreds of fine examples of early American craftsmanship related to firefighting such as glassware, lighting, leather
making, photography, textiles and paintings.
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connecticuthistory.org
Stories of Connecticut places, events, people, including primary source documents.
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Connecticut State Historian
The Office of the Connecticut State Historian's Home Page.
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Connecticut State Library
The Connecticut State Library's Home Page
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Connecticut Towns and Their Establishment Date
Source: The Connecticut State Library
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Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation
The Conecticut Trust for Historic Preservation is dedicated to protecting and nourishing the vitality of Connecticut's
significant buildings and landscapes.
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Hockanum River Watershed Association
The Hockanum River was central to the founding of Manchester, providing a source of power to the original factories and
mills. The Hockanum River Watershed Association is dedicated to the preservation and protection of the watershed
area's green belt, hiking trails and water quality in the towns making up the Watershed.
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Museum of CT Glass
A future museum with two buildings in Coventry, CT, whose mission is to preserve, exhibit, and educate about glass made in Connecticut.
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New England Civil War Museum
This museum is located right in Vernon, Connecticut, "inside the longest continuously used Civil War veterans hall in the
United States, 1890-present...It is devoted to the fighting men of the War of the Rebellion." The Manchester Historical
Society receommends visiting both the web site and the museum.
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Railroad Museum of New England
Web site of the Naugatuck Railroad, a heritage railway operated by the volunteers of the Railroad Museum of New England,
featuring not only scenic train rides but also restoration of railway equipment by the Museum's team of volunteers.
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Rogers Company History
A history of the Rogers Company, founded in Manchester by Peter Rogers in 1832, and greatly expanded over the years.
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Tankerhoosen River Watershed
The Tankerhoosen River is made up of two primary
streams - one arising in Tolland and the other in Bolton. It ends where it joins the Hockanum River in Talcottville where
the water flows to the Connecticut River in East Hartford. The purpose of this website is to be a resource for information
about the area for both those living here and those who enjoy hiking and exploring the area.
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Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center contains archival research materials.
> The Dodd Center has online resources, as well as materials for researchers to review in person in Storrs, Connecticut.
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Tolland CT Historical Society
Museums and history events in Tolland.
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Andersonville Monument to Connecticut POWs
In 1907, Frank W. Cheney and other members of his family attended the dedication of a Civil War statue at Andersonville
Prison, honoring Connecticut's prisoners of war. The book "In Memory of the Connecticut Men Who Suffered in Southern
Military Prisons 1861-1865" describes the monument and its dedication with text and pictures. Frank's wife, Mary Bushnell
Cheney, wrote a chapter of the book ("Notes by a Guest"). F.W. Cheney, also known as Col. Cheney, a Civil War veteran of
the 16th Connecticut Volunteers, spoke at the dedication.
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Civil War Information from the National Park Service
The National Park Service provides information about the Civil War, including names of those who fought and died, the
battlefields that are now National Parks, and monuments.
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Civil War Veterans Return to Battlefields Film
In this 5½ minute film, Civil War veterans return to fields where they fought, decades after the end of the war.
The film is part of the Ken Burns Civil War project, and consists of footage shot between 1913 and 1938.
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Fulton History
Search millions of New York State newspaper pages from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the New York
Times, Canton NY & St. Lawrence Plaindealer, and the Utica NY Daily Observer. Even though these are New York state
newspapers, they do have articles about events related to Connecticut, and there are pertinent advertisements, for
instance, some for Apel's Opera House. The search box is in the upper left when you click the link.
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History of Silk in America
A short history of silk manufacturing in America, beginning with attempts in the 1620s to force planters to plant mulberry
trees in Virginia; later other attempts in the South before the attempts were abandoned in order to plant cotton; and then
attempts in New England, eventually terminated when a blight killed off most of the trees. After than, silk production
shifted from cultivating trees and cocoons as well as manufacturing silk products, to just the latter. Cheney Brothers
is specifically mentioned as a firm which went through all phases, until the closing of most of these by the 1950s.
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Latter-day Saints Family History Web Site
Searchable family data provided free through the Mormon Church. Searchable by event (birth, marriage, death) and location.
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Library of Congress "American Memory" Project
American Memory has digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, movies,
books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress -- more
than 100 collections and more than 9 million individual items.
> Click here http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/index.html
for lists of all collections, collections by time period, collections containing maps, sheet music, sound recordings, etc., and collections by geographic location in the U.S.
> Click here http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/faq.html for
Frequently Asked Questions about this site.
> Type today in history in the Search box for interesting day-by-day gems from all of the
collections.
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National Iwo Jima Memorial
The National Iwo Jima Memorial Monument, which is located in Newington, CT, was unveiled and dedicated on
February 23, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the historic flag raising on Mount Suribachi. The Monument is similar
to, but not a replica, of the Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, VA. The 100 servicemen from Connecticut, who
died during the Battle of Iwo Jima, are listed on the west side of the monument's black granite base.
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic
places and revitalizing America's communities. The Trust was founded in 1949 and provides leadership, education, advocacy,
and resources to protect the irreplaceable places that tell America's story.
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New England Civil War Museum
This museum is located right in Vernon, Connecticut, "inside the longest continuously used Civil War veterans hall in the
United States, 1890-present...It is devoted to the fighting men of the War of the Rebellion." The Manchester Historical
Society receommends visiting both the web site and the museum.
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Society of Industrial Archaeology
The story of Manchester is closely linked with industry; and the mission of the Society for Industrial
Archeology (SIA) is to encourage the study, interpretation, and preservation of historically significant industrial sites,
structures, artifacts, and technology. This link will point the user to chapters in their region and their web
sites.
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CT State Library Research Page
Search page of the Connecticut State Library's "Connecticut Patents" project,
with information on patents awarded from 1800 to 1900. Note that the same inventor may be associated with
multiple towns, so restricting the search to just Manchester may not give all the results you're seeking. (The search criteria used are repeated
at the bottom of the search results page.)
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US Patent and Trademark Office Web Site
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), for
additional information on specific patents. Note that not all patent information has been digitized as yet, so the
information may not be available online. (Use the page's "Issued Patents" items to correlate items to the Connecticut
web page's items.)
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Google Patent Search
Google Patent Search's web site, a complement to the U.S.Patent and Trademark
Office's web site. As noted on the site's home page, Google and the USPTO have entered into an agreement to make bulk
patent and trademark information available to the public at no charge.
Those with an interest in Manchester's history may enjoy the short film clips on YouTube. Hi-speed Internet recommended,
as dial-up connections may handle the data very slowly. Unless otherwise noted, these videos are by Susan Barlow, your
webmaster (SBarlow627@aol.com).
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Chimney remains from old Boy Scout camp at Case Mountain recreation area.
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Old quarry near the Manchester-Glastonbury town line, in the Case Mountain Recreational Area. The Case Brothers
Historic District is the newest Manchester region to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Bridal Veil Falls in the Highland Park section of Manchester.
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How to get to Bridal Veil Falls, also known as Wyllys Falls.
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The 1917 Summer house overlooking Upper Case Pond in the Highland Park section of Town is described. Originally
a summer house for the Case-Dennison family, the rustic cabin was the scene of elegant parties in the early- to
mid-twentieth century.
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Twin brothers A. Wells Case and A. Willard Case lived in these mansions on Spring Street, Manchester, now a part
of the Case Brothers National Historic District, on the National Register. The first house shown, the yellow and
white mansion on the hill, was the home of A. Willard Case. The second house shown, the pink stucco mansion, was
the home of A. Wells Case.
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Annual walking tour of the Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District, 2010.
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Cheney Dye House conversion to apartments, corner of Pine and Cooper Hill Streets.
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Center Memorial Park in Downtown Manchester. The Manchester Historical Society opposes further encroachment on
this historic park.
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Our Downtown is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Hilliard Mills Tour: On a November 14, 2010 tour, Peter Bonzani explains about the growth of the mill buildings
in Hilliardville, as owners added on to existing woolen mill operations. Peter and his two partners have worked
on renovating the mill during the last 4 years. They have donated old-growth lumber to the Manchester Historical
Society for re-use in our 1895 Cheney building on the other side of town.
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The historic Cheney Homestead was built in 1785. Generations of the Cheney family owned the residence and lived
there into the 1960s. The family donated the homestead to the Manchester Historical Society, and it opened as a
house museum in 1969. This video shows a November 6, 2010 work party that spruced up the outside and inside of
the Homestead.
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Walking tour of Hilliardville, 2009, with commentary on re-use of materials in old mills.
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Cheney Office Building on the annual walking tour of the Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District,
2009.
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At the Historical Society's Dec. 3, 2010 Open House, harpists from the nearby MusicMakers Academy performed at
the History Center. The windows in this room overlook Forest Street.
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Artwork with a historical flair at Manchester's Town Hall. In addition to the large Russell Cheney oil painting
in the hearing room at Lincoln Center, there are paintings and drawings in various places throughout the
building, including this second-floor conference room. The originals (of the John, Seth, and Russell Cheney
artwork) are in the collection of the Manchester Historical Society. Our current town hall was designed in 1926
Frank Farley, grandson of Frank & Susan Cheney.
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Annual Cruisin' on Main event in Downtown Manchester brings out the antique cars and their fans. The Downtown
Manchester Special Services District sponsors the event on the first Sunday of August.
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Our State Archeologist, Nick Bellantoni, tells the legend of the Wolf Den on a Columbus Day walk in eastern
Connecticut (not specifically about Manchester, but an interesting story from the 18th century).
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June 2009 outdoor art show in Center Memorial Park, Downtown Main Street, Manchester CT. The free art show takes
place the day after the big kickoff event in the park -- the free outdoor concert.
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B.C. Apel built the Opera House in 1888. It had a furniture store, undertaking parlor, saloon and of course the
Opera auditorium for traveling vaudeville shows, community theater, etc. The Central CT Co-op Farmer's
Association owned it for several years until going out of business in 2016.
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On May 20, 2011, developer and philanthropist Simon Konover spoke at the celebration of the new life of the
Cheney Dye House as moderate-income apartments. In attendance were the governor, various town officials and
members of the public, in anticipation of the start of rental of the 57 apartments in June 2011.
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On December 28, 2008, the Society conducted a walk along the railway of the Cheney Railroad. While the rail's
tracks are no longer in place, at one time this was the largest privately-owned passenger and freight railroad
in the country. It was also one of the shortest passenger lines, providing service to Cheney workers and
families similar to that provided by trolleys of the period.
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March 2, 2012 visit to the historic John Olds house, built circa 1776, near the corner of Tolland Turnpike and
Slater Street in Manchester. A contractor is disassembling the house to sell and reassemble elsewhere.
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Evidence of quarrying before power equipment and heavy trucks! This large rock with drill holes and metal wedges
is located along the yellow-red trail. It's on the right side of the trail (as you're going from Glastonbury to
Case Mtn.) not too far off the path.
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A half mile or so from the trailhead at Spring Street, we visit more stone walls near Upper Case Pond, owned by
the Manchester Land Conservation Trust in the Highland Park section of Manchester, CT.
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On the Town of Manchester's "Silk City Television" website there is a slide show on the early days of
the Hockanum River Linear Park Committee in Manchester. It was made in the mid-1970s; and in early
2014 Doug Smith, who heads up the Committee, narrated it. After clicking this icon, click the Watch Now
link. The video runs for 54 minutes.
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Manchester Historical Society's "Great Lawn" Walking Tour led by Susan Barlow and Tom Ferguson on June
14, 2014.
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Wedding of Hannah Cheney Williams, daughter of Horace Bushnell Cheney, June 23, 1939, narrated by
Hannah. Hannah married Byard Williams, M.D., on the grounds of her home on the Great Lawn. This is a
digitized version of 16mm film.
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Gertrude Rogers (1866-1943), Businesswoman and Philanthropist; A story from the ECHN Charitable
Foundation about Gertrude Rogers and her legacy: the Rogers Fund.
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Video about the second floor of the Cheney Homestead, by David Beal.
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Michael Selissen films an interview with Walt Scadden, author of "Murder in Manchester," about the
January 1919 attempted silk heist at Cheney mills and the murder of Bill Madden.
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One of the scenic spots in the Case Brothers National Historic District, added to the National Register in 2009. Former tennis courts, near intersection of Spring St. and Glen Rd.
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A commemorative rock atop a stone wall in the Case Brothers National Historic District, acknowledging A.
Wells Case, who, in 1903, started a project of carriage paths, stone walls, bridges and steps. The stone is amphibolite.
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A video that explains the operation of Jacquard looms, like the one at the History Center, the
background for which is discussed in the
Loom Exhibit section of the "Reprints" page in this website.
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In 2018, on the 180th anniversary of its founding, Cheney Brothers was inducted into the American
Manufacturing Hall of Fame, which arranged for production of this 3-minute video.
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Reenactment of a January 1874 visit to Cheney Hall by Susan B. Anthony and Isabella Beecher Hooker,
who spoke on the topic of equal voting rights for women. 28-minute video recorded on Wednesday,
September 25, 2019.
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37. Bennet School at 1151 Main Street, Manchester, CT, opened in 1915, and has provided space for education ever since, sometimes junior high school, and currently (2020) fifth- and sixth-grade academies. Our 2004 visit includes the tunnels between the buildings, a talk with Marsha Gunther (who passed away in 2015), and visits to various buildings within the Bennet complex. Unfortunately, the sound and video quality are poor due to transfer from the original (VHS) format to digital. |
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Merestones, or boundary stones, were once more common than today. This one is out in the woods, near
the Gorman Quarry.
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Depot Square sign. One of 19 signs marking historic spots in Manchester.
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Cheney Historic district, a quick view of the machine shop and other silk mill buildings.
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An illustrated talk by Susan Barlow at the Manchester Senior Center on July 1, 2020, about the story
of the South Manchester Rail Road, a.k.a. The Cheney Railroad.
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100th Anniversary of Votes for Women, a celebration at the Woodbridge Farmstead, Sunday, August 9, 2020, with Town Troubadour Bill Ludwig and Town Historian Susan Barlow.
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A 7-minute video describing the impact of the Cheney influence on the town of Manchester and beyond.
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30 Years of Manchester Connecticut As Seen From Space. All footage is from Google Earth.
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Manchester, CT History in Old Postcards. These postcards on ebay give an interesting view of our town!
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Chasing a Connecticut Southern train from East Hartford to Manchester and back. The first and last shots are in East Hartford and the others are in Manchester.
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Cheney Brothers Historical District // Connecticut's Cultural Treasures
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Tours of the Charles Cheney mansion today at a tea that benefited the Manchester Historical Society.
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March 2010 view of the Great Lawn in Manchester, CT, part of the Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District.
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Manchester Connecticut 1914 Panoramic Bird's Eye View.
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Former paper mills along the Hockanum River, established 1784 by Butler and Hudson -- also known as
Hudson mills, Oakland mills, Hurlbert mills -- operated under various owners and through various
reorganizations. The mills manufactured high-quality papers, including bank-note paper and post-card
paper for the U.S. government. For additional information, click
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