HISTORY LINKS

ARE YOU A HISTORY BUFF?

The Mill Museum has compiled a list of links to help you learn about the history of Connecticut, Windham County, Willimantic (the Thread City), textiles, industrialization, and a lot more!

Featured link

Hidden in Plain Sight. Stories from Connecticut NBC’s Matt Austin, including a story about the Great Windham Frog Fight and the Willimantic Frog Bridge.

Featured link

Written in Stone: A Virtual Tour of the Gravestone Carvers of South Cemetery in Pomfret, CT

Windham/Willimantic and Vicinity

• Center for Connecticut Studies

• Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum

• Friends of the Prudence Crandall Museum

• Garden on the Bridge

• Joshua’s Trust

• Lebanon Historical Society

• Mansfield Historical Society

• Samuel Huntington Huntington Homestead

• The Last Green Valley

• Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

• ThreadCity.us

• Weir in Windham

• Willimantic Downtown

• Willimantic Victorian Neighborhood Association

• Windham Historical Society

• Windham Preservation Incorporated

• Willimantic, ME & Willimantic, CT – WILI Radio Interview (scroll down to April 30, 2010)

Connecticut History

• Connecticut Archaeology Center

• Connecticut Explored

• Connecticut Gravestone Network

• Connecticut Historical Society

• Connecticut History

• Connecticut Humanities Council

• Connecticut State Library

• History of Connecticut Poor Houses

• Map and Geographical Information Center (MAGIC)

• Office of the Connecticut State Historian

Genealogy

• Connecticut Ancestry Society

• Connecticut Genealogy

• Connecticut Society of Genealogists

• Cyndi’s List

• Family History Archives

• French-Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut

• Godfrey Memorial Library

• Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut

• Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast, Inc.

• RootsWeb

• The Connecticut Irish American Historical Society

• US Gen Web Project