" To
enhance undergraduate learning in the liberal arts by
promoting use of library special collections"
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THOMPSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
P.O. Box 47
Thompson, CT 06277
Phone: (860)
923-3200
Fax: N/A
E-mail: See contacts.
Web site: http://www.thompsonhistorical.org/
Contact:
Joseph Iamartino, President (860-923-3776, jiamartino@charter.net)
Access
hours:
By appointment.
Access restrictions:
Qualified researchers, by written permission only.
Reproduction fees:
Vary depending on the quantity/session, but typically $5 per digital image
on disk.
Other
provisions:
N/A
Other information:
N/A
Collection
Description:
The collection includes approximately 25,000 scanned photographs and documents
relating to the history of Thompson. There are three areas
of priority:
- Digital images of early Thompson, especially the mill
villages of North Grosvenordale, Grosvenordale, Quadic, Mechanicsville,
West Thompson, Wilsonville, Quinebaug and Fabyan (New Boston).
- Digital images of Thompson
Hill and East Thompson. Thompson Hill was an old commercial center and
turnpike crossroads in the early 1800s. East Thompson was a busy train depot.
- Thompson
has many mysterious lithic, pre-Columbian stone structures. Presumed to
be the work of Nipmuck Indians, these structures, lacking any written
historical documentation, have been systematically destroyed by home-builders
unaware of their significance. The Society has collected what records and
photographs that exist of these artifacts, perhaps the oldest man-made structures
in Connecticut.
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