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Connecticut local and regional history books feature vintage images of small towns and downtowns across the state. Each title celebrates the unique cultures and traditions of the 'Constitution State' through historical images and descriptive captions.

From the grounds of Savin Rock Amusement Park to historic covered bridges across the state, whistle stops from Greenwich to New Haven, Yale football and hockey in New Haven, firefighters in Bristol and Bridgeport, the rugged roads of Route 15 and Route 7, the towns of Bethel, New London, Norwich, Newtown, and more, each book features stunning vintage images revealing the unique people, places, and events that make up the history of the great state of Connecticut.

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Name	Series	Status	Price	ISBN
Along The Connecticut River Fairlee/West Fairlee, Orford, Bradford, Piermont, Newbury and Haverhill Along The Connecticut River Fairlee/West Fairlee, Orford, Bradford, Piermont, Newbury and Haverhill $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Often constant and serene, but sometimes fierce and rushing, the waters of the Connecticut River serve as most of the border between Vermont ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738589787
Ansonia Ansonia $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America The town of Ansonia is situated at the foot of Connecticut’s Berkshire Hills, above the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers. T ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738502526
Around Essex: Elephant and River Gods Around Essex: Elephant and River Gods $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Three hundred years of history follows you around today as you wander the streets of Essex, Centerbrook, and Ivoryton. Essex harbor is locat ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738509310
Around Woodbury Around Woodbury $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Woodbury lies in the Pomperaug Valley of western Connecticut, in the heart of what is known as Antique Alley. On every side are towns that o ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738504605
Assyrians of New Britain Assyrians of New Britain $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America The first Assyrians arrived in Connecticut during the beginning of the 20th century. Initially brought here through a mission organized by t ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738550121
Avon Avon $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Avon, located beside the Farmington River in the fertile Connecticut River Valley, was incorporated in 1830. The proud new town had 1,200 re ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738504469
Avon Avon $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Then and Now Once known as Northington, a northern parish of Farmington, Avon was incorporated in 1830 after the construction of the Farmington Canal. Lo ...	Then and Now	Available	$21.99	9780738573816
Baseball in New Haven Baseball in New Haven $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of Baseball Baseball in New Haven uncovers the rich history of the national pastime in the greater New Haven area with images that highlight the sport o ...	Images of Baseball	Available	$21.99	9780738511788
Beacon Falls Beacon Falls $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America On September 7, 1693, in exchange for 10 pounds and a barrel of cider, a former Indian slave named Toby was given a tract of land that becam ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738591438
Berlin Berlin $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Located in the geographical center of the state, Berlin is best known as the Home of the Yankee Peddler. The first white settler, John Beckl ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738509211
Bethel Bethel $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Separated from Danbury in 1855, Bethel was settled as early as 1700. Studies of the town’s unique and colorful past have been somewhat negle ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738589619
Bethlehem Bethlehem $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Settled in 1734, Bethlehem is a typical Litchfield hill town and retains much of its rural charm. Around its green are an old post tavern at ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738565163
Bloomfield Bloomfield $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Throughout Bloomfield, the name that appears nearly everywhere is Wintonbury-Wintonbury Flower Shop, Wintonbury Avenue, Wintonbury Library, ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738509549
Bolton Bolton $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America A quiet village 18 miles east of Hartford, Bolton was born at the nexus of two prehistoric Native American trails. Bolton was formed in 1720 ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738573779
Bridgeport Bridgeport $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Postcard History The golden age of postcards, which took place between 1900 and 1940, was also the golden age of Bridgeport. Local and national publishers pr ...	Postcard History	Available	$21.99	9780738537665
Bridgeport at Work Bridgeport at Work $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America What was it like to work and live in Bridgeport during the past two centuries? No one could tell us better than the people who worked on the ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738511238
Bridgeport Baseball Bridgeport Baseball $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of Baseball Bridgeport, Connecticut, owns a rich and diverse baseball history. People from varied backgrounds stepped up to the plate in Bridgeport's ea ...	Images of Baseball	Available	$21.99	9780738512013
Bridgeport Firefighters Bridgeport Firefighters $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Tracing its roots to 1796, the Bridgeport Fire Department protects Connecticut’s largest city. Bridgeport’s first step toward independence o ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738504926
Bridgeport on the Sound Bridgeport on the Sound $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Located where the Pequonnock River empties into the Long Island Sound, Bridgeport became an important coastal city before land transportatio ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738508627
Bridgeport: 1900-1960 Bridgeport: 1900-1960 $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Postcard History Bridgeport: 1900-1960 presents a fascinating look into the history of Bridgeport through vintage postcards from the city’s formative years. ...	Postcard History	Available	$21.99	9780738562513
Bristol Bristol $21.99 Backordered state: Connecticut series: Images of America Bristol was originally a tightly held and uninhabited portion of Farmington and was known in its early days as the West Woods. Settlers did ...	Images of America	Backordered	$21.99	9780738508740
Bristol Business and Industry Bristol Business and Industry $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Bristol was incorporated in 1785 and quickly became recognized as a clock-manufacturing center and home of the E. Ingraham Company's "dollar ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738573373
Bristol Firefighting Bristol Firefighting $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America In 1845, a series of disastrous fires nearly crippled the economy of Bristol. Earlier in the century, the community had become one of the le ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738510774
Bristol Historic Homes Bristol Historic Homes $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Bristol, originally known as West Woods, formed later than other Colonial towns. Bristol’s mother town of Farmington was settled in 1640 and ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738539195
Brookfield Brookfield $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America During the early 1700s, Brookfield was first colonized in an area occupied by the Pootatuck Indians. Hat, shear, and comb factories arose al ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738501161
Bulldogs on Ice: Yale University Men's Ice Hockey Bulldogs on Ice: Yale University Men's Ice Hockey $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of Sports ...	Images of Sports	Available	$19.99	9780738513287
Burlington Burlington $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Located on the Farmington River, Burlington is a place of natural beauty, with five mountains and valleys filled with brooks, forests, and s ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738509051
Candlewood Lake Candlewood Lake $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America At the turn of the century, the Rocky River valley was a quiet, productive farming community nestled in the foothills of Connecticut’s Berks ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738536026
Candlewood Lake Candlewood Lake $7.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Postcards of America Candlewood lake boasts a rich history. Author Bio: In this collection of vintage-photograph postcards, Susan Murphy and Gary S ...	Postcards of America	Available	$7.99	9780738565651
Canterbury: The First 300 Years Canterbury: The First 300 Years $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Canterbury: The First 300 Years provides glimpses of the people, places, and events that have given this town on the west bank of the Quineb ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738512037
Canton and Collinsville Canton and Collinsville $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Canton and Collinsville lie fourteen miles west of the state capital, Hartford, along the Farmington River in the scenic Farmington Valley. ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738508689
Central Connecticut State University Central Connecticut State University $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Campus History Central Connecticut State University, established as the first public institution of higher education in Connecticut and credited with being ...	Campus History	Available	$21.99	9780738501604
Cheshire Cheshire $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Cheshire was established by farmers in 1694 as a parish of neighboring Wallingford. It is a classic New England town, built around a central ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738508603
Connecticut and Rhode Island Covered Bridges Connecticut and Rhode Island Covered Bridges $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America During their heyday in the mid- to late 1800s, more than 150 covered bridges dotted the landscape of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Since tha ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738575407
Connecticut and Rhode Island Covered Bridges Connecticut and Rhode Island Covered Bridges $7.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Postcards of America Connecticut and Rhode Island boast rich histories. Author Bio: In this collection of vintage-photograph postcards, William S. ...	Postcards of America	Available	$7.99	9780738575698
Connecticut Mining Connecticut Mining $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America The search for mineral wealth in Connecticut has spanned more than 10,000 years of human history. It began with the migration of Native Amer ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738545042
Connecticut Whistle-Stops: Greenwich to New Haven Connecticut Whistle-Stops: Greenwich to New Haven $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Richly illustrated, Connecticut Whistle Stops: Greenwich to New Haven tells the fascinating history of a rail line and the communities it se ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738510033
Coventry Coventry $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Coventry, lying some twenty miles east of Hartford, is the birthplace of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale. On the National Register of ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738512310
Crystal Lake, Tolland County Crystal Lake, Tolland County $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Crystal Lake lies between the towns of Tolland and Stafford on a five-mile-long triangular strip of land extending from the northeastern cor ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738563688
Danbury Danbury $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America The founding families of Danbury, with names such as Thomas Barnum and Judah Gregory and John Hoyt, left Norwalk in 1684 and traveled some 3 ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738505152
Deep River and Ivoryton Deep River and Ivoryton $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Deep River and Ivoryton, two villages in the lower Connecticut River Valley, were dominated for more than a century by "white gold"-ivory. T ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738510965
Derby Derby $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Here is the first pictorial history of Derby, a community with a glorious Colonial past, a manufacturing era that spurred development throug ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738502540
Derby and Ansonia Derby and Ansonia $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Then and Now The cities of Derby and Ansonia, in the heart of Connecticut’s Lower Naugatuck Valley, share history, geography, heritage, and borders. With ...	Then and Now	Available	$21.99	9780738536880
Durham Connecticut Durham Connecticut $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America In Durham, Connecticut, captured moments of time afford a precious glimpse into the lives of the early residents of this small, central Conn ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738590080
Durham: 1900-1950 Durham: 1900-1950 $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Postcard History Durham: 1900-1950 presents a unique view into the history of Durham through vintage postcards. A small town of approximately 7,000 people, D ...	Postcard History	Available	$21.99	9780738573267
East Hartford East Hartford $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Situated along the scenic Connecticut River, East Hartford was once part of the city of Hartford until the town successfully separated from ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738565378
East Lyme East Lyme $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America East Lyme has historically been shaped by the water. In the late 1800s, city residents seeking a quiet summer escape discovered East Lyme, a ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738511894
Electric Boat Corporation Electric Boat Corporation $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Electric Boat Corporation has been a world leader in submarine development, design, and construction for more than a century. In 1900, the c ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738545639
Ellington Ellington $21.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Located 16 miles northeast of Hartford, Ellington was incorporated in 1786 and has retained the charm of a New England village and farming c ...	Images of America	Available	$21.99	9780738538242
Enfield, Connecticut Enfield, Connecticut $19.99 Available state: Connecticut series: Images of America Since its founding in 1683, Enfield has experienced a wealth of changes, including the inception of a Shaker community that made Enfield its ...	Images of America	Available	$19.99	9780738500027

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