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<title><![CDATA[RalphSee / Thayer - New London, Connecticut: Town & County - Fotopages.com]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[56 year-old Yankee: amateur local historian, photographer, and curmudgeon.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:16:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Autumn in old Bacon's Backyard / Colchester]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Colchester, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Old Factory and Fire Engine / Yantic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Left and Middle - The old Hale Manufacturing Company building.

Right - Distinctively-shaped hood ornament and "nose" of vintage 1939 Diamond-T fire engine at back window of its storage bay. (Yantic Fire Engine Company was organized in 1847.)

Yantic, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Autumn Ivy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Arboretum at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Autumn Along Grassy Hill Road / Lyme]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Grassy Hill Road
Lyme, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Born a Slave: Quash Williams Memorial / Mystic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[QUASH WILLIAMS
BORN A SLAVE DEC. 16, 1762.
United with the Fort Hill Baptist
Church at the age of 24,
Emancipated at the age of 28, and
DIED NOV. 2, 1830.
______

His wife
HANNAH
Lies buried by his side.
______

OLD QUASH was truly an example
and by it "he, being dead, yet speaketh."
Erected in 1867 in memory of his
Christian virtues.
______

His motto:
"WALK AS WELL AS TALK"

The small white stone, now uprooted, is inscribed, simply, "Q.W." It used to be in the ground now covered by the overgrowth, and next to a similar marker inscribed in like fashion, "H.W." -- I first saw this memorial about 20 years ago. It was the first I had heard of slavery in New London County. Since then much more about this history has been publicized.

White Hall Yard,
Mystic, Connecticut / 09-Oct-04 14:02 EDT]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flower Girl / Colchester]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In garden of the Federated Church.
Colchester, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Whitewash]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New London, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Comstock Bridge / Colchester]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Comstock Bridge spans the Salmon River a quarter mile north of Route 16 at the New London and Middlesex county line. It is not only a romantic relic of the past, but also a rare example of 18th and 19th century bridge-building.

The approach span is a 36 ft. long Queen post pony truss constructed in 1791, and the main is a 90 ft. long http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/image-howetruss.html(Howe truss) built in 1873 -- reputedly the oldest original Howe truss still in existence. (Source: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/cbfy00pd.htm#comstock(USDOT/FHWA))

The truss, floor beams, and iron rods of the Comstock Bridge date from the original time of construction; and though the bridge bore the main road between Colchester and Middletown until 1932, this is the only one of the http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/coveredbridges.html(three remaining covered bridges in Connecticut) to still carry its own weight with the original timber superstructure.

Colchester and East Hampton, Connecticut / 02-Oct-04 12:46 EDT]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vector Vanitas / Colchester]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Burying Ground, Colchester, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Federated Church / Colchester]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Colchester, Connecticut]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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