Jamie and Katherine Eves trace how industrialization and urban growth increased fire danger and led to organized fire departments in Windham and Willimantic.

Jamie and Katherine Eves retrace Hiram Percy Maxim's pioneering 1897 motorcar trip, the first long-distance drive by a Connecticut driver.

Pieter Roos traces the history of railroads in Willimantic, which followed the textile mills and connected the city to regional ports.

Jamie Eves describes how railroads became essential to transporting raw materials and finished goods for Connecticut's textile mills.

Jamie Eves traces how eastern Connecticut's rivers powered its early industrialization, contrasted with a classic New Yorker-style commuter cartoon.

Jamie and Katherine Eves discuss the American elm tree outside the Mill Museum and the history of elms in Willimantic.

The history of Down Sodom, an early industrial-era neighborhood that grew up along the Willimantic River.

An 1882 panoramic lithograph of industrial Willimantic, viewed from Blake Mountain, illustrates the city's late-19th-century growth.

An overview of how eastern Connecticut's rivers provided the waterpower that fueled the region's early textile industry.