Glastonbury: From Settlement to Suburb. Fourth Edition

brown & white illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. fourth "expanded" edition. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. illustrated title pg. vi+185p+ 2 double page b&w maps. b&w photos & illustrations throughout. appendix. endnotes. sources. index. american history. history of new england. history of connecticut. ~ Glastonbury: From Settlement to Suburb tells the absorbing story of how one Connecticut Valley settlement grew from a farming community to an industrial town and then to a twentieth~century suburb. Beginning with the Indians who inhabited the Valley before the white men came, it tells of the settlers' early negotiations with the native tribes, of later shipbuilding and trade with distant lands, of fighting in the Nation's wars, of manufacturing world~famous products, and of a town's pride in its ancient homes, lovely meadows, hills and woodlands. It tells, too, of the men and women with whom the name of Glastonbury is associated: Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln; the famous Smith sisters, early fighters for women's rights; J. H. Hale, who developed a strain of peaches known nation~wide; and J. B. Williams, whose products are sold around the world still under the same name; and many others. Photographs from the collections of the Historical Society of Glastonbury and from private collections illustrate every chapter. And old maps show the locations of streets, public buildings, and private homes more than one hundred years ago.