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researchIT CT [7] is a free online resource service of the CT State Library. This service provides journal, magazine, and newspaper articles for Connecticut public, K12, and academic libraries and their users. This service also offers a collection of downloadable eAudios and eBooks for Connecticut residents with valid CT public library card ...
Samuel Trumbull's circulating library, Norwich [21] Pomfret. Social Library of Abington in Pomfret (est.1793) [2] United English Library for the Propagation of Christian and Useful Knowledge, Pomfret (1739–1805) [2] Saybrook. Library of Second Society, Saybrook (est.1795) [2] Southington. Union Library Society, Southington (1797–1847) [2 ...
The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is a non-profit museum, library, archive and education center that is open to the public. It houses a research center containing 270,000 artifacts and graphics and over 100,000 books and pamphlets. [2] It holds one of the largest costume and textile collections in New England. [3]
(2nd edition, Cleveland: World Publishing, 1966). (2nd edition paperback, Kent State University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-87338-449-0). Taylor Upton, Harriet, History of the Western Reserve, New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1910, ISBN 978-0-8328-5091-2 (1996 edition). Further reading. Connecticut State Library (CSL) collection
A History of Connecticut: Its People and Institutions (1914) 608 pp; based on solid scholarship online; Federal Writers' Project. Connecticut: A Guide to its Roads, Lore, and People (1940) famous WPA guide to history and to all the towns; Fraser, Bruce. Land of Steady Habits: A Brief History of Connecticut (1988), 80 pp, from state historical ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent.
The Western Reserve is located in Northeast Ohio with its hub being Cleveland. In 1795, the Connecticut Land Company bought three million acres (12,000 km 2 ) of the Western Reserve. Settlers used the guidelines of the Land Ordinance of 1785 , which demanded the owners survey the land before settlement. [ 2 ]