http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/ctstudies/ The Center for Connecticut Studies was established by David M. Roth in 1970 at Eastern Connecticut State University. The original focus of the Center was on developing and providing curriculum materials and resource information for use in teaching about the state's history and culture. The Center now collects both primary and secondary materials on all aspects of the Connecticut's history and development with a particular focus on Windham, Tolland, and New London counties. Materials include town histories and reports, old newspapers, journals, military rolls, Federal Census of the Population on microfilm, some New England materials, and genealogical materials. . In 1989, the Center accepted Windham and Willimantic town records. The records cover the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and include town reports, tax lists, town minutes and reports, town clerk's correspondence, voting records and lists, education records, and almshouse ledgers. The papers include WPA correspondence and other Depression related materials. Military documents relate to Willimantic's participation in both World War I and II, as well as the Civil War and the Spanish-American conflict. CENSUS MATERIALS (Books, CDs and Microfilm) Federal Population Census for Connecticut, 1790-1920. Microfilm 1900 Census Soundex on microfilm for Connecticut. 1910 Census Index for Connecticut on CD. NEW Acquisition! Federal Population Census for Rhode Island and Massachusetts: 1850-1880's. Federal Population Census Indexes for Connecticut: 1880-1830, 1850, 1860. NEW Heads of Families Census 1790: New England, New York, Virginia and others. Connecticut 1670 Census. [Book.] Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1774. [Book] [Census Index for Connecticut: 1840, 1870, 1880. [Coming Soon.] [Census Index for Massachusetts: 1850, 1870. [Coming Soon.] CITY DIRECTORIES 1902-1935 (Microfilm) Ansonia, Bristol, Middletown, Hartford, New London, New Haven, Norwich, Stamford, Willimantic. (Some years not published.) SELECTED LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS Albert Levitt Collection Almanacs, starting with 1790s. - Allen's New England, Circa 1830s--1890s. - Astronomical Diary, Kalendar Almanac - Old Farmers Almanac - Shakespearean Annual Connecticut Town Reports David E. Philips Connecticut Folklore Collection Nineteenth Century Textbook Collection, From Agriculture to Zoology - Some examples: The Late War, 1819; The Refugee pr the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, 1856; First Lessons in Grammer, 1848; Games to Teach Correct English to Little Ones, 1920; Children of the Sun, 1869 Slides, Photographs, and Maps of Connecticut Windham and Willimantic Town Records - Board of Selectman Correspondence Circa. 1819-1888 - Tax Lists: 1884, 11186, 1888-1909, 1922-1931. - Willimantic Women's Club Collection Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1936-1941. MICROFILM Amistad Case Connecticut Regimental Histories of the Civil War (Records of Service Men) Connecticut Revolutionary War Orderly Books Missionary Society of Connecticut Records, 1759-1948 Nathaniel Shaw Family Papers, 1755-1799 The Worker and Technological Change, 1930-80 Salem Witchcraft OLD NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM Advertiser, 1818-1819 American Mercury (Hartford), 1784-1820 Bridgeport Daily Standard, 1861-1866 Connecticut Courant, 1764-1820; 1821-1837 Connecticut Mirror (Hartford), 1809-32 Courier (Norwich), 1798-1809 Hartford Courant, 1837-1974; 1987- 94 Liberator, 1831-1865 Middlesex Gazette (Middletown), 1785-1820 Morning News (New London), 1844-1848 Native American, 1812-1813 New London Day, 1881-1945 (more reels to be added) New-London Summary, 1758-63 Norwich Bulletin, 1900-1930 (more reels to be added) Norwich Packet, 1773-1802 Political Visitant, 1820 Register (Windham), 1817-1818 The Times (Hartford), 1817-1819 Willimantic Daily Chronicle: 1891-1950; 1957-1965; 1972-90 Windham County Transcript, 1854-1943 Windham Herald, 1781-1798 SELECTED MAPS Historical Maps Atlas of Windham and Tolland Counties, with a Map of Connecticut from Actual Surveys by O.W. Gray, C.E., Danielsonville, Conn. 1869. Cornell, Sarah S. Cornell's Companion Atlas to Cornell's School Geography. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. [Cover: The Atlantic Almanac, 1868] Diercke, Carl and E. Gaebler. Diercke Schul-Atlas for Nonere Lehrastalten. Braunschweig: Westermann, 1906. Town and City Atlas of the State of Connecticut. Compiled from Government Surveys, County Records and Personal Investigations. 1893. Quadrangle Topographic: many town throughout Connecticut and New England The Story of One Corner of Connecticut in 16 Maps. Reproductions. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/ctstudies/Collection.html The Center collects primary and secondary source materials documenting current and historical issues. Read and rejoyce! Investigate!! DR. BARBARA TUCKER, DIRECTOR (Tuckerb@easternCT.edu) MAIL: CENTER FOR CONNECTICUT STUDIES Eastern Connecticut State University J. Eugene Smith Library 83 Windham Street Willimantic, CT 06226 PHONE: (860) 465-4512 (877) 353-3278 EXT. 54412 (877) 587-8693 LIBRARY Rhonda Houston