Please join us for Coffin Craziness presented by Michael Miller of the Enfield Historical Society. In the 1880s, Thompsonville’s New England Glass Burial Case Company manufactured glass coffins. Their products were not unique. America’s inventors designed and sometimes successfully manufactured and sold a dizzying variety of devices for preserving your favorite family members for eternity[...]
Join Susan Bigelow of the Enfield Historical Society as she walks you through the unique family history resources held both at the Old Town Hall and online. Discover photographs, school materials, small business documents, military photos, and extensive holdings on the town's major employers that can help link you to the lives of your ancestors.[...]
Please Join historian Bill Fournier and the Enfield Historical Society for an historical look at the harvesting of timber and the various uses from early colonial times and on into the Industrial Revolution. Connecticut Valley locales, near and far are explored, and the transportation methods and tools that were used are shown. Local area sawmills[...]
Did you know that the first bridge across the Connecticut River in Connecticut was in Enfield? Or that the earliest bridges were all privately owned? Or that they were eventually "freed" by the State of Connecticut? Have you heard the story of the exciting rescue of Hosea Keach when Enfield Bridge was washed away in[...]
Enfield Historical Society members and anyone interested in learning more about or joining the Enfield Historical Society are invited to our brief annual membership business meeting, followed by an entertaining, interesting, and educational public program (details will be posted here as soon as they are available). Members will receive business program details by mail. This[...]
Travel back with Tom Heath and the Enfield Historical Society to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to learn about life in Enfield at that time of change and how politics influenced the enforcers of laws and the impact those men’s actions had on everyday life. Learn how events during that time led to[...]
Join Enfield Historical Society member Jim Malley for a PowerPoint presentation on the Connecticut Tobacco Valley story in Enfield. The presentation will include a look at tobacco history, local Enfield farms, the tobacco process, employment, tobacco products and the current landscape of tobacco. This presentation is open to the public. Anyone with an interest in[...]
Do you remember the days before email, texts, and smartphones that follow us everywhere? The days when letters only came on paper - and just once a day? Letters filled with news, gossip, and important business? Travel back to those days with Mike Miller from the Enfield Historical Society. He will share letters from the[...]
Join Enfield Historical Society member Jim Malley for a PowerPoint presentation on Enfield Sports & the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame. The presentation will include a look at Enfield History, sports origins, the Grey's Athletic Association & Bigelow Carpet teams, and Angelo Lamagna. The program will also examine how Enfield's population impacted high school and[...]
After the Battle of Saratoga, Massachusetts suddenly had thousands of British and German prisoners of war they desperately wanted to get rid of--and keep from rejoining the war. The solution? March them a thousand miles south to Charlottesville, of course! So began the strange march of the "Convention Army," made up of British regulars, German[...]