Public Presentation

Presentation by Enfield Historical Society member Michael Miller. Enfield has always been home to creative and ingenious people.  Innumerable inventions have been born of their genius.  And many of our Enfield innovators (or their employers) received patents for their inventions or designs.  From the incredibly complex machinery that made Thompsonville's carpet factories so productive and[...]

Presentation by author and Enfield Historical Society member William Fournier. An Historical Research Documentation of the Great(est) Island of the Connecticut River TERRY’S ISLAND TELLINGS OF THE TIMELINES, TITLES, TALES AND TRUTHS Just beyond the early morning fog lies a Land of Legend, here long before man. Here is one of it’s many stories… TERRY'S[...]

Photo: Hazard Powder Company dam on the Scantic River.  The Powder Mill Barn is in the center background. Join Enfield Historical Society Member Jim Malley for a presentation on Rivers, Brooks and Ponds in Enfield. The presentation will trace the map location and the naming of the waterways. The program will also look at how[...]

Join the Enfield Historical Society for an informative and entertaining program about our shared history. Chester and Frank Pilch were household names in Enfield during the mid-20th Century. Chet learned the art of chick “sexing” which brought him success early on in life, and he turned that into an extremely successful business model. Frank became a[...]

Photo: The PA & HD Crombie Klondike Ice Company was located on Freshwater Pond in the Thompsonville section of Enfield. An unidentified worker, Peter A. Crombie, Sr., and Francis Crombie Sr., at age 11, are collecting ice on Freshwater Pond in this circa 1915 photo. North Main Street is in the background. Dennis Picard will[...]

Join the Enfield Historical Society as Kevin Johnson portrays William Webb, an African American Civil War soldier from Connecticut. Kevin Johnson’s portrayal of Webb is told from an emotional and exciting first-person perspective that vividly illustrates the struggle of the African-Americans in the Colored Infantry during the Civil War. He tells of his early life[...]

Join Enfield Historical Society Member Jim Malley for a PowerPoint presentation on a Retrospective of Frank G. "Doc" Taylor. Doc Taylor taught for 54 years, the last 49 years as a Social Studies teacher at Enfield High School. Doc Taylor retired in 2012 and passed away on May 28, 2023 at the age of 88.[...]

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[...]