A Builder's Tale: Lloyd E. Baldwin's Willimantic Before 1850: Sketches of Early Residences and Occupants

Title: A Builder's Tale: Lloyd E. Baldwin's Willimantic Before 1850: Sketches of Early Residences and Occupants
Description: A series of twenty-two newspaper articles originally published in the Willimantic Journal in 1895 by Lloyd E. Baldwin, an eighty-five-year-old retired carpenter and builder who had lived in Willimantic since 1828. Baldwin provides a building-by-building, person-by-person tour of Willimantic as it existed in 1850, documenting early residents, mill owners, workers, churches, schools, and streets during the early Industrial Revolution. Introduced and edited by Jamie Eves.
Creator: Lloyd E. Baldwin
Contributor: Jamie Eves
Subject: Willimantic, Connecticut; Local history; Architecture; Industrial Revolution; Textile industry; Windham County; Nineteenth century; Cotton mills; Community history
Publisher: Windham Textile and History Museum
Date: 1895
Type: Text
Format: text/html
Language: English
Rights: Public Domain