On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our journey will take us to Old Orchard in Belle Haven. Built in 1890 and designed by the architectural firm Boring, Tilton & Mellen, its principal owner was Charles A. Moore. He was a prominent businessman whose form manufactured machinery used in the construction of railroads.
On The Judge’s Corner, Judge Frederick A. Hubbard, also known as Ezekiel Lemonade, penned a piece published in 1932 about the figurehead of the clipper ship Lancashire and its ties to Luke Vincent Lockwood of Greenwich.
On Greenwich Life As It Is -And Was, a century ago the columnist who penned so any stories about Greenwich’s history -Erwin Edwards- died. You’ll hear about how he was remembered. Rest assured, we will be featuring more of his columns in future shows.
On Crimes and Misdemeanors, Elizabeth Gazso, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gazco of Byram, was struck and knocked down by a car driven by a young chauffeur, George W. Slater, on Delavan Avenue. What happened next? We’ll share that with you.
On a much lighter note, a century ago, Louis Victor Eytinge -pardoned from a prison in Arizona after serving sixteen years of a life sentence- was married to Pauline L. Diver at the Pickwick Arms Hotel.
It was the culmination of an eight-year romance conducted by mail. Eytinge told a reporter, “I have accepted the verdict of fate, and I am very, very happy to have received another life sentence.”
The First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich invites you to enjoy two free self-guided online history tours. The church was founded in 1665. One tour is of the church cemetery located off Sound Beach Avenue. The other is a tour of the wonderful stained glass windows of the church.
They tell quite a story about the influences that culminated in driving some people from Europe to America, and in the chapel, tell the story of the landing of the settlers here in 1640 and the development of the first church in Greenwich, Connecticut.
On Greenwich Before 2000, we’ll travel back in history to the years 1888 and 1889.
You’ll also hear a follow-up to a story featured in last week’s show about the January 1923 controversial installation of a pole by the Connecticut Light & Power Company in the town’s second-oldest cemetery in Cos Cob. In 1927, five thousand dollars was raised for temporary new classrooms for the Edgewood School. In January, 1914, Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton was asked to take charge of a committee “for the artistic arrangements if a women’s suffrage parade to be held in Hartford in May of that year.
Our listeners in Byram are no doubt very familiar with the Metro-North Railroad bridge that passes over North Water Street. Even one hundred years ago, calls were made for a “light should be suspended on either side of the railroad bridge” since trucks and other vehicles would occasionally “come to grief.” World War One veteran William H. Trefry told the story of a “ragged hole through the center of a mirror” in his possession -and how it got there.
There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.
You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.
We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold.
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