The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/15/)
Joseph McGill, founder of the nationally renowned Slave Dwelling Project, will visit and provide two programs at the Phelps-Hatheway House on Saturday, June 12 at 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m., and Sunday June 13 at 1.p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Last month’s Observer included a photo from a class of children from the former East Street School where the Thompsonville Road fire station is now located. Resident Alice Czyz was able to identify the first name of the Elcock girl in the photo.
The Suffield Historical Society’s (SHS) online class will ceremoniously install a Witness Stone memorial for Tamer (1770-1829) on June 19 at 10:00 a.m.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
John A. King stands at the left in front of his Indian Spring Farm, located in the very northeast corner of Suffield between the Connecticut River and the end of Mapleton Avenue.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
This old portrait, labeled on the back as “Thomas and John Orr, 1896,” was taken by The Bolton Studios, Rockville & Windsor Locks. The photo was part of a group of old Suffield photos from that era purchased from eBay.
East Street School had two rooms. It served the community from lower Thompsonville Road to River Boulevard.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
Taken in about 1898 looking upstream near the mouth of Stony Brook at the end of Paper Street, this old photo shows the Franklin Paper Mill in its third embodiment.