Simsbury

by Mary Jane Springman, Alan Lahue, Simsbury Historical Society

Book Overview

When early photographers began recording scenes around Simsbury, the town was over 200 years old and changing with the times. Photographs taken in 1885 during a mile-high balloon ride trace railroads, rather than the old canal, running through the town. Grand Victorian mansions, some of them summer residences, arose among cherished family homes on farms dating from colonial times. The mills in the Tariffville section and Toy, Bickford & Company near...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738576263
• ISBN13: 9780738576268
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"