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Herein Lies The True Story of Bristol Connecticut
Herein Lies The True Story of Bristol Connecticut
BRXSTOL's storytelling, clues, and characters are quasi-fictional renditions sourced from true historical events and lore. Yet the Secret Clock is REAL, and the path to its location is hidden within the maze of records, images, videos, and events published on this website - and out there in the wilds of Bristol, Connecticut.
BRXSTOL's storytelling, clues, and characters are quasi-fictional renditions sourced from true historical events and lore. Yet the Secret Clock is REAL, and the path to its location is hidden within the maze of records, images, videos, and events published on this website - and out there in the wilds of Bristol, Connecticut.
Souvenir History of the Town of Bristol, Connecticut
by The Journal Publishing Company, Meriden, Conn
1897
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A special collection of BRXSTOL imagery.
Bristol, Connecticut "in the Olden Time New Cambridge", which Includes Forestville
By Eddy N. Smith, George Benton Smith, Allena J. Dates
1907
A special collection of clips from olden time Bristol newspapers and publications.
Bristol Artifacts from eMuseum
Bristol by Milo Leon Norton
Published in the Connecticut Quarterly
Vol 1, No. 1, January
1899
History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome
by Chauncey Jerome
Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business
1860
A History of Bristol, Connecticut
by Epaphroditus Peck
Lewis Street Bookshop, 1932 - Bristol (Conn.) - 362 pages
Our Yankee Heritage: The Making of Bristol
by Carleton Beals
Bristol Public Library Association, 1954 - Bristol (Conn.) - 331 pages
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Bristol, Connecticut: A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985
by Bruce Clouette, Matthew Roth
Bristol Public Library, 1984 - History - 319 pages
Centennial Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Bristol [Conn.]
by John J. Jennings - June 17, 1885
Bristol Historic Images
by Gail Leach, Steven Vastola
Arcadia Publishing, 2001 - History - 128 pages
Bristol Business and Industry
by Lynda J. Russell · 2010
Bristol Historic Homes
By Lynda J. Russell · 2006
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Bristol, Connecticut "in the Olden Time New Cambridge", which Includes Forestville
By Eddy N. Smith, George Benton Smith, Allena J. Dates · 1907
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George Bruno dismantles a Gideon Roberts 30-hour clock
Making time with George Bruno
Collecting Conversations, Episode 1: Early American Clock by Joseph Ives (1782-1862)
A special collection of BRXSTOL clock schematics and historical records.
Men of Mark in CT Vol 1.pdfW.E. Sessions, page 258
A.L. Sessions, page 267
Miles Lewis Peck, page 280
C.E. Mitchell, page 415
Men of Mark in CT Vol 2.pdfTracy Peck Jr, page 145
C.S. Treadway, page 192
John Birge, page 208
E.B. Dunbar, page 222
by Bristol World War II Historical Committee, 1947
Program and Addresses Delivered at the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church
Bristol, Conn., October 12th, 1897
Discourses prepared for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the appointment of Deacon Charles G. Ives to the office of a Deacon : in the Congregational Church
by Moseley, printer, Bristol, Conn., 1859
1890-01-27 Milling World Buffalo NY.pdfMilling World, Chronicle of the Flour and Grain Trade
Advertisement for the Improved National Turbine Water Wheel
January 13, 1890
Article: Joel T. Case and the Victorianization of Bristol’s Federal Hill
Case, Joel T. Patent Number 309,196 - Grinding Mill. 309,196.
Bristol, CT, issued December 16, 1884. Link.
Case, Joel T. Patent Number 394,911 - Steam Engine. 394,911.
Bristol, CT, issued December 18, 1888. Link.
Case, Joel T. Patent Number 4,329 - Improvement in Water-Wheels. 4,329.
Bristol, CT, issued April 11, 1871. Link.
Record of service of Connecticut men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War
by Connecticut. Adjutant-General's Office; Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923
New York Times: Park, Age 137, Still A Family Affair
August 1, 1982
New York Times: The American Clock and Watch Museum in Bristol; Clockmaker's Legacy Preserves Lost Time
"When the World Ran on Connecticut Time"
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A Sketch of the Clock Making Business: 1792-1892
By Hiram Camp
Hiram Camp (1811-1893), a nephew of Chauncey Jerome and long associated with the New Haven Clock Company and its predecessors, wrote this historical sketch shortly before his death in 1893. It was discovered in the files of the New Haven Clock Company 43 years later.
From Eli to Seth; Connecticut, Mecca of American Clockmaking
by Alexander H. Phillips
"Everyman’s Time: The Rise and Fall of Connecticut Clockmaking"
Cedar Swamp Bibliographic Timeline.pdfCedar Swamp Bibliographic Timeline
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Connecticuts Iron and Copper.pdfConnecticut's Iron and Copper: From the 60th Annual Report of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers
by Charles Rufus Harte, 1944
THE BRISTOL COPPER MINE, page 20
Link: Technical Description
Article: Copper Mine History & Discoveries
The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Old Leather Man
Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
Homes Hold Bristol's Past
The clockmakers who built and lived in the historic Forestville homes targeted for demolition led influential and interesting lives that helped shape Bristol's industrial past.
by Jackie Majerus
Bristol Excerpt from A Historical Discourse, Delivered by Request, Before the Citizens of Farmington, November 4, 1840: In Commemoration of the Original Settlement of the Ancient Town, in 1640
by Noah Porter, 1841
Connecticut A Bibliography of its history.pdfConnecticut, A Bibliography of Its History
1986
Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut
Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families · Volume 1 1901
A Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut
Connecticut Geological Survey,
by Charles Upham Shepard, 1837
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1
By James Hammond Trumbull
1886
Legacy of Joseph Ives
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Manross Family History
Article: Faces of the Civil War, Cpt. Newton Manross
The Centennial History of the First New Haven National Bank
By Rollin Gustav Osterweis
1963
Download Full Text
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Albert Rockwell: Inventor, Industrialist, and Philanthropist
Historical Overview by the Bristol Historical Society
Article: Hardness, Bearings and the Rockwells, The story behind one of the greatest metallurgical innovations of the 20th Century
By Richard E. Chinn, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Article: Obiturary
Genealogy of Ives Family.pdfGenealogy Of The Ives Family
Including a HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENTS and the movement from Quinnipiac to the Black River Country
by Arthur Coon Ives, 1912
Additional Resource: Families of Wallingford
Hartford Courant: "Churches Were The Pillars Around Which State’s Towns Were Built"
Candace Roberts, Japanner & Dial Painter
by Donn Haven Lathrop, 2008
Diary of Candace Roberts, Bristol, CT 1801-1806
Decennial Record of Class of 1900, Yale College
by George N. Whittlesey, class secretary
1912
Materials for a History of the Sessions Family in America,
The Descendants of Alexander Sessions of Andover, Mass., 1669
by Francis Charles Sessions
Munsell's sons, 1890 - 252 pages
Builders of Bristol, Bristol Press Archives
Small red leather bound manuscript, one page per day, pre-printed.
1867-1920
Beloit College
Archive: Peck Family Papers (Yale, 1691-1911)
Profile: Professor Peck, Rome Travels
Article: The Argiletum and the Roman Book-Trade (Tracy Peck, Rome, April 1913)
NYT Obituary: Miles Lewis Peck
Katherine Gaylord, Heroine
Biographical Sketch by Florence Muzzy
Treadway, Rockwell, Manross, Barnes
Historical Sketch of Edward Ingraham
Archive: E. Ingraham Company Records
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History of the Town of Plymouth, Connecticut: With an Account of the Centennial Celebration May 14 and 15, 1895 : Also a Sketch of Plymouth, Ohio, Settled by Local Families
Journal Publishing Company, 1895 - Plymouth (Conn. : Town) - 442 pages
A. Terry & Company Historical Images
Rev. Samuel Newell, page 27
Death of Lott Newell, page 352, from Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College.
Early clockmaking in Connecticut
by Hoopes, Penrose R. (Penrose Robinson), 1892-1976
Published for the Tercentenary commission by the Yale university press, 1934.
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