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[Connecticut History @CT_History]

#OTD in 1877, the Staffordville Reservoir Company’s dam burst, washing away bridges, smaller dams, houses, tenements, a church, livery stables and the manufacturing district from Staffordville to Stafford Springs. https://t.co/eQdFddupWB

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

#OTD in 1876, the #steamboat City of Hartford, of the New York and Hartford steamboat line, hit the Air Line Railroad Bridge on the Connecticut River at #Middletown. https://t.co/Cfi6kZoSzE

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

#OTD in 1844, Samuel Colt blew up a schooner on the #Potomac River off the Washington (DC) Navy Yard to demonstrate the effectiveness of his invention, the #underwater electric mine or #submarine battery. https://t.co/BxBgSOXdyg

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

#OTD in 1878, a #Tornado swept across the northern part of #Wallingford. The most destructive tornado to ever have struck the state, it killed 34 people and injured 70 as it ripped up trees and carried houses and barns from their foundations. https://t.co/ZX4x2DmagD

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

A wooden covered bridge spanned the Connecticut River at the Bulkeley Bridge site beginning in 1818. In 1895 the bridge burned down. When new bridge construction began in 1904, the state called in the Sand Hogs. https://t.co/MZcrDjXAfV #CTHistory #bridge

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

#OTD in 1826, Elizabeth Jarvis was born in #Hartford, CT. When she was 30, she married industrialist Samuel Colt and 6 years later, upon his death in 1862, Elizabeth Jarvis #Colt inherited controlling interest in Colt’s Patent Arms Manufacturing Company. https://t.co/EkoacqzrZi

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

Benjamin Wright helped build transportation and canal systems in the U.S. and served as the chief engineer on the construction of the Erie Canal. By the mid-1800s almost every civil engineer in the country claimed some connection to him. https://t.co/hlWLP1YgJw #Erie #engineers

[Connecticut History @CT_History]

#OTD in 1877, the Goodspeed Opera House on the Connecticut River in East Haddam, Connecticut, officially opened to the public. #CTHistory #theater #grandopening