Stamford History Real Time

Join Us for an Evening of Dinner, Dancing, Raffle Prizes and More, Saturday, April 26

AN EVENING OF DINNER, DANCING, RAFFLE PRIZES AND MORE

HONORARY CHAIRPERSON
Rosemary Harris, Stamford author of  Pushing Up Daisies

FEATURING
Scrumptious edibles by The Best in Gourmet and Live Music by Deborah Wang and Fullsound Productions

DATE
Saturday, April 26, 2008, at 7:00 pm

THE AOH (HIBERNIAN) HALL
186 Greyrock Place, Stamford, CT 06901

RSVP BY APRIL 11, 2008
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Uncovering Mysteries – Dick Roberts and Stamford Cemeteries

A recent story in the Stamford Advocate about Dick Roberts and his cemetery project:

Uncovering mysteries

For more about the project, read  Mapping Lost Graveyards in Stamford

Image Copyright © 2008, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc.

Busy Scene at Main and Bank Streets, 1925 (Whitman Bailey Sketch)

Another installment in our series of Sketches by Whitman Bailey.

Busy Scene at Main and Bank Streets, March 7, 1925

Stamford's “financial district,” March 1925,  a hub at Main, Bank, and Atlantic streets.  In the newspaper clipping it is called “a sort of Cape Horn around which all traffic must navigate before it can lay a course to its destination.”

Complete Newspaper Clipping of March 7, 1925 (PDF file)

(Reference File Bailey125.pdf)

Uncovering the Past: Davenport & Treacy, Piano Plates

A piano related e-mail inquiry led the sleuths in the Marcus Research Library to the Davenport & Treacy Company of Stamford, a foundry that made piano plates.

Picturesque Stamford (1892) has Manufacturing Industries, page 244 ff.: The Davenport & Treacy Company. located on West Waterside.

“Success is such a handy word, and is so often used, that it hardly expresses the situation in this case. The amount of success that has fallen to their lot may be estimated by the fact that from 275 plates in 1884, they developed a patronage so large that in 1891, as their books indicate, they produced the enormous quantity of 23,400 piano plates and a correspondingly large output of piano hardware. The present location at West Waterside was chosen after careful deliberation, because it places them within easy access of piano manufactories by rail or boat. Their works reach the water's edge, and give them unexceptionable advantages in receiving their iron and coal, as well as material for general purposes. Their buildings have a street frontage of about 475 feet, and cover about three acres of ground. Anticipating further progress, they have ample space for the enlargement of their works.”

E.B. Huntington's History of Stamford on Google Books

Elijah Huntington's

History of Stamford : Connecticut, from its settlement in 1641, to the present time, including Darien, which was one of its parishes until 1820. Stamford, Connecticut: Published by the Author; 1868

is now available as Google Book.