Memento Gallery

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A rare find! Colchester Rubber Company product catalog and order form from the late 1880's. Please click here to view.

S&S Worldwide is an international company with sales in excess of $25 million and over 250 employees. (according to spoke.com). This company started in 1906 and moved to Colchester in the early 1900's. It located on the site of the ruins of Hayward Rubber Company.

"By Order of the Captain of the fourth company in the twenty fourth regiment of Connecticut militia, I darn Diodate J. Fisher to appear on the green in front of Deacon ??? house.......

Sir I wish to enquire whether the claims in your hands against me in favor of the Brownings belongs to the Brownings or whether Trumbull has settled it and it belongs to him. My object for enquiring is to get it assigned. If it belongs to Browning, I shall go down and see them. Please inform me and inform me what day I could probably find your honor at home.

This is a rare $1 draft note from the Colchester Bank that lasted less than 2 years.

"It was used by woodworkers and carpenters to make marks for a saw or other cutting device to follow.

They were made some time between 1830 and 1850.

S. S. (Samuel Smith) Norton was C. H. Norton's grandfather (my great-great) and lived and worked in the Hope Valley section of Hebron. We assume the tool is marked Colchester because that was the point where it was shipped.

Samuel died in 1869 and is buried in the Ponemah Cemetery here in North Westchester."

The Colchester Rubber Company rose from the financial demise of the Hayward Rubber Company.

Colchester Residents of 1885

The Directory of "residents" surely reflected the times. No women's names are mentioned. Also, it appears only the residents of Borough were included.

Click here to see the entire list

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1890 Hank's Directory of Willimantic, Colchester and vicinity 1st Edition

Go see on indefinite loan to Cragin Memorial Library

In 1890, Benjamin Harrison was President. Morgan G. Bulkeley was Connecticut's governor. Idaho and Wyoming became states. The National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded.

Click here to see an entire listing of Colchester's government officials, Town societies and Churches in 1890.

Click here to read the entire directory of Colchester residents and businesses in 1890. The business listings are in bold type.

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Colchester Creamery 1896 Financial Statement\

Go see on indefinite loan to Cragin Memorial Library

The Colchester Creamery was the 2nd stock company in Colchester in the 1890's.

Click here to read their November 1896 statement. In 2007 dollars, it's the equivalent of a $26,000 profit.

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For centuries, Colchester has been the "hub" of New London County. It was the middle of the wheel with Willimantic, Middletown, New London, and Hartford as the major spokes.

Colchester 275th medallion circa 1973. At that time several hundred were minted and spread around the country.

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