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The Beechers Take the Water Cure

WebThe Brattleboro Hydropathic Institution was one of the most expensive water-cure establishments in the United States with costs ranging from $5 to $10 per week, a …

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Connecticut’s Agricultural Experiment Station

WebThe station’s fifth director, James G. Horsfall, in The Pioneer Experiment Station, 1875 to 1975, A History (Antoca Press, 1992), describes the “curious situation” …

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Columbia Bicycles: The Vehicle of Healthful Happiness

WebIn the February 1893 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal an ingenious and forthright Columbia bicycle advertisement claimed: “It is our business to do good and …

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Pretty in Pink in Stony Creek

WebStony Creek granite is one of the oldest rocks exposed anywhere in New England.”. It gets its coveted pink color from the reddish mineral potassium feldspar with …

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Understanding Homelessness in 1890s Hartford

WebDuring the 1890s and early 20th century, however, he gained fame in Hartford and beyond for his research of the city’s indigent population (then known as …

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Seaside: Sun & Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis

WebBy the time of the commission’s report in mid-1936, the new Seaside had a waiting list of 200 children. By mid-1938, Connecticut’s death rate from tuberculosis …

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The Birth of Hospice in the U.S.

WebPlease e-mail us at [email protected] or write to us at P.O. Box 271561, West Hartford, CT 06127-1561. The Origins of Hospice. Hospice care has …

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Destination: The Institute of Living

WebBy Cynthia Cormier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Feb/Mar/Apr 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Myths, Minds and Medicine at Hartford Hospital’s Institute of …

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Treating the Mind in Times Past

WebThese are valuable records of personal struggles with mental health, which are not always easily found in historical archives. Official medical records are more likely …

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Spanish Flu Epidemic: Ninety Days That Sickened Connecticut

WebTemperatures reached 103 to 104 degrees. Despite the grisly symptoms, “The great majority of cases of influenza, of course, recover,” the article reported. In …

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A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

WebThat office also supervised construction, which began in September 1940 and was completed in November 1943. The conduit, made of reinforced concrete, was …

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Fighting Smallpox at Hospital Rock

WebBy Charles Leach, M.D. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Feb/Mar/Apr 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Hidden deep in the second-growth hardwood forest of …

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Catharine Beecher & Domestic Science

WebThe Beecher family, whose most notable members were innovators of social justice, also advocated new approaches to the design and use of domestic spaces. …

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Connecticut Women Fight for Reproductive Rights

WebThe story of Griswold v. Connecticut is then both a story of women activists’ struggle to do away with laws limiting control of reproduction and of the decision’s …

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A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise & Fall of Public Housing

WebIn 1941, the 222-unit Dutch Point Colony, the 500-unit Bellevue Square and the 1,000-unit Charter Oak Terrace, designed as temporary housing for defense workers, …

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Bringing Back “Restmore,” Home of Dr. Ira DeVer Warner

WebIt was built between 1910 and 1912 by Dr. Ira DeVer Warner as a summer home and estate atop Southport’s Mill Hill, with its commanding view of Long Island …

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The Danger of Illuminating Gas

WebJust a little invention that brightened the lives of countless forebears: illuminating gas. Over a 12-year period at the beginning of the 20th century, eight deaths …

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Connecticut Children’s Medical Center: Once the Home for …

WebThe Home for Incurables opened on June 15, 1898 and ten children moved in, with a matron to care for them. In spring 1900, the U.S. Census listed 19 young …

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