Historical Article Series April 6, 2020

A series of re-published newsletter articles.

View of Echo Lake from Pine Island

Pine Island

Published by David Landry on April 6, 2020

From the Mansfield Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2001

Posted in Historical Article Series April 6, 2020 | Tagged Allan Bigelow, Bigelow, Caryl Bigelow, dance hall, Echo Lake Mansfield CT, Esther Bigelow, Grace Wyman Homer, Katherine Bigelow, Lucius Storrs Bigelow, pavilion, Pine Island, Seymour Bigelow

The Mansfield Silk Company illustration from The Silk Industry in America by L. P. Brockett, 1875

History of the Mansfield Silk Company

Published by David Landry on April 6, 2020

From the Mansfield Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 4, July 2001

Posted in Historical Article Series April 6, 2020 | Tagged Alfred Lilly, Alfred Theodore Lilly, Edmund Golding, Mansfield Silk Company, William A. Fisk, William E. Williams

Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves

Comments on the Home Silk Industry in Mansfield

Published by David Landry on April 6, 2020 | 1 Response

From the Mansfield Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 5, September 2001

Posted in Historical Article Series April 6, 2020 | Tagged John D’Homergue, mulberry, Nathaniel Aspinwall, Peter S. Duponceau, silk, silkworms

Mansfield's original Town Hall before it was relocated.

The Mansfield Fife and Drum Corps

Published by David Landry on April 6, 2020

From the Mansfield Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 6, November 2001

Posted in Historical Article Series April 6, 2020 | Tagged Jared Gorton Freeman, Nathaniel Perkins

Wilma Keyes, c. 1925

Interview of Wilma Keyes

Published by David Landry on April 6, 2020

From the Mansfield Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 2, April 2002

Posted in Historical Article Series April 6, 2020 | Tagged Robert Smith, Wilma Keyes