History
100 Years Ago in Suffield
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From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/27/)
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
Suffield’s May Breakfast at Mapleton Hall was a popular spring event, attracting many hundreds of hungry diners throughout the big day in the last decades of the 19th century and well into the 20th, especially after the trolley came through Mapleton Avenue in 1902.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
This unfamiliar scene was pictured on November 24, 1922, and the photo was taken looking southwest from Depot Street (now Mountain Road) from a spot in front of today’s Three Figs.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
Cigarmakers pause for their portrait in an unidentified Suffield cigar shop, perhaps about 1920.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
This “Welcome Home” picture of Suffield’s well-decorated old Town Hall was almost certainly taken in November 1919, when the town held a major celebration honoring the veterans of World War I, a year after the Armistice
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
This turn-of-the-century photo was part of a Pease Family album preserved by Barry Sisk, who is connected by marriage to that prominent Suffield family.