Jim Meehan and his wife Marsha joined the Wethersfield Historical Society in 2006 after retiring from careers in Information Technology...
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Acknowledgements - Jim Meehan
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:39 PMChapter I - The Colour of History
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:44 PMWhen Marsha and I bought our house on the corner of Brimfield Road and Folly Brook Boulevard in Wethersfield we...
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Chapter II - A Certain Parcel of Land
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:46 PMAccording to our mortgage dated April 13, 1977 we had acquired:"A certain piece or parcel of land with the buildings...
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Chapter III - Substantially Correct Information
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:49 PMFortunately for me the Wethersfield Town Clerk's Office is staffed by a group of women who have pretty much heard...
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Chapter IV Brimfield Gardens
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:51 PMBrimfield Gardens was a planned development of the land on Brimfield Road, Clearfield Road, the south side of Dale Road...
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Chapter V - Plan Of A Residence Suburb
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:52 PMBecause of the lack of more definite information on Brimfield Gardens or the Isaacsons, Melissa suggested that I look at...
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Chapter VI - Connecting With Hartford
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:53 PMThe major issue in the suburbanization of Wethersfield identified in the 1928 town plan was "Thoroughfare Connections With Hartford.""The thoroughfare...
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Chapter VII - Building The Boulevard
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:54 PMThe staff in the Wethersfield Town Engineer's office found a 1935 map of the proposed Folly Brook Boulevard prepared by...
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Chapter VIII - The Ark and the Gingko Tree
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:54 PMA "Sanborn Fire Insurance Rate Map" prepared in 1930 and an aerial photograph of the Brimfield Gardens area taken in...
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Postscript and Bibliography
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:55 PMMy research has answered the questions which prompted this exercise plus several others that never would have occurred to me...
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