Snippets from Norwich History

Albert W. Hicks was born in 1820 in Foster, Rhode Island. Even as a young boy he exhibited the stubborn […]

Conceived and constructed in the ornate style of the Victorian era, the Broadway Theatre was a cultural wellspring for the

In the year 1646 a group of settlers; led by John Winthrop Jr. arrived in Southeastern Connecticut and established the

As a young boy growing up on a farm in Salem, CT during the early years of the 19th century,

Donald Grant Mitchell was born to Alfred and Lucretia Mitchell in Norwich on April 12, 1822. As a young boy,

Born in England in 1606, John Winthrop Jr. had a wide-ranging intellectual appetite. He became well-versed in the fields of

Lafayette Sabine Foster was born in Franklin, Connecticut on November 22. 1806. He received his early education in the local

During the waning weeks of a New England winter in early March of 1860, Abraham Lincoln visited Norwich during his

Harry and Mattie Land’s second son Edwin was born on May 7, 1909 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. When Edwin was ten

Bela Lyon Pratt was born on December 11, 1876 in Norwich Connecticut. His parents were Sarah Whittlesey and George Pratt,