Index to Wolcott History blogs

As we reach the end of a decade, I have now written 500 entries in my blog since beginning in February 2015. I’ve written on a variety of subjects, but there are a few deserve special recognition – stories about the Pierpont family, stories about my Russell ancestors, and stories about the history of my hometown, Wolcott, CT. I’ve written so many about these three topics that I thought it might be helpful to put together an index of all the stories in these areas.

This is the index for all those stories about Wolcott History, organized into various categories to make it easier to read them (instead of doing a search in my blog and reading them in chronological order).

 

Farmingbury Stories

·       Indians

·       The Bound Line

·       Early Settlers of Farmingbury

·       Early Settlers Research

·       Echoes of Farmingbury

·       Founding members of the Congregational Church

·       Revolutionary War Service

·       New England religious roots

·       Josiah Atkins House

 

Geography Stories

·       How Geography affected Wolcott growth

·       Hiking - part 1

·       Hiking - part 2

·       Hiking - part 3

·       Old Maps and Abandoned Roads

·       Rivers and Brooks

·       Lakes and Ponds

·       Swimming

·       Biking

 

People/Families

·       Alcock/Alcox/Alcott family

·       The Alcox Family

·       The Alcox/Alcott - Pierpont Connection

·       Wolcott History - biographies

·       Biographical Sketches

·       Inter-family marriages

·       Samuel Orcutt

·       Addin Lewis

·       Seth Thomas

·       Town Names and Clocks

·       Leverett Kenea - Memorial Day

·       Congregational Church pastors

·       Town Clerks

·       First Selectmen

·       Southington Mountain, Town Green, Postmasters

 

Places

·       South East Burying Ground

·       Northeast Burying Ground

·       Pikes Hill Cemetery

·       Pillwillop Farm

·       Wolcott Library Early Contributors

·       Finch Brook

·       The Russell Property

 

Wolcott Schools

·       Census Records, Schools, and Teachers

·       How the schools were named

·       How I am related to everyone for whom the schools are named

·       First grade - my personal melting pot

·       School assignments - early poems

·       Instrumental music program - playing the flute

·       Taking Driver Training in high school

·       Senior project - Students Approve Vietnam Effort (Project SAVE)

·       Wolcott History - a poem

·       My favorite teachers

 

My Life in Wolcott

·       Moving to Wolcott in 1946

·       My Wolcott Connections

·       More Wolcott Connections

·       The Growth of a Wolcott Neighborhood - 1935-1955

·       The Growth of My Wolcott Neighborhood - 1954-1961

·       Wolcott Remembrance

·       Trick or Treating in the 1950s

·       Easter memories

·       Scouting in our family

·       Being a bad boy

·       Fire!

 

Miscellaneous

·       Learnings from the 1870 Census

·       Wolcott genealogical connections

·       WWI Effects

·       My extended Pierpont family relatives in Wolcott

·       The Polish connection

·       A tangled Wolcott web

·       The Nancy Hall Bible

·       How the roads got their names

·       Cousin connections and common Wolcott names

·       Mattatuck Drum Band

·       Chronology of Wolcott

·       Civil War Involvement

·       Wolcott History Resources