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Month: May 2016

Hiking to Connecticut’s Historic Hermit Havens

Hiking to Connecticut’s Historic Hermit Havens

  Author: Jennifer Lawton Schloat Connecticut is an ideal destination for day hikers.  There are many blazed trails through rocky areas on hills and mountains with many caves. These caves have sheltered people throughout history. Some Connecticut towns are home to hidden historic sites, deep in the woods, secluded locations. These were already off-the-beaten-path in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Several havens of early American hermits and outcasts have survived the centuries, untouched by the population expansion and modernization of…

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In a Secret and Clandestine Manner: 18th-Century Thieves in Farmington

In a Secret and Clandestine Manner: 18th-Century Thieves in Farmington

Author: Amanda Keenan Colonial Farmington residents were not immune to crime. They faced property loss at the hands of their neighbors, visitors, and vagabonds. It is difficult to understand the frequency of burglary in the 1700s as individual towns kept separate court records and these documents have since been lost or archived in repositories spread across the state. Thankfully, Farmington’s Solomon Whitman’s papers still exist at the Connecticut State Library. Thus his judgments for twelve accused thieves during his tenure…

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