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The Mainstream of Connecticut:
The Many Roles of the Connecticut River


Suggestions for further reading

Andrews, Gregory E. and David F. Ransom. Historical Survey Report: the Connecticut Riverfront in the Greater Hartford Area. (Hartford: Riverfront Recapture, 1989).

Bachman, Ben. Upstream: A Voyage on the Connecticut River. (Chester, CT: Globe-Pequot Press, 1988).

Bell, Michael. The Face of Connecticut. (Hartford: State Geological and Natural History Survey, Dept. of Environmental Protection, 1985).

Benes, Peter. Two Towns: Concord & Wethersfield. Vol. I. (Concord, MA: Concord Antiquarian Museum, 1982).

Benson, Robert. The Connecticut River. (Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1989).

Delaney, Edmund T. The Connecticut River: New England’s Historic Waterway. (Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1983).

Erving, Henry Wood. The Connecticut River Banking Company, 1825-1925. (Hartford: The Connecticut River Banking Company, 1925).

Grant, Ellsworth S. Thar She Goes: Shipbuilding on the Connecticut River. (Lyme, CT: Greenwich Publishing Group, 2000).

The Great River: Art & Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820. (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985).

Jacobus, Melancthon W. The Connecticut River Steamboat Story. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1956).

Lewis, Thomas R., Jr. From Suffield to Saybrook. (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979).

Life Along the Connecticut River. (Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Daye Press, 1939).
The Mainstream of Connecticut. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1981).

The Middletown-Portland Bridge. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1938).
Moss, Douglas D. A History of the Connecticut River and Its Fisheries. (Hartford: Connecticut Board of Fisheries and Game, 196?).

Turner, Gregg M., and Melancthon W. Jacobus, Connecticut Railroads: An Illustrated History. (Hartford, The Connecticut Historical Society, 1989).

Wright, George E. Crossing the Connecticut. (Hartford: Smith-Linsley Company, 1908).

Link to other essays in this Journey:

>> The Mainstream of Connecticut: The Many Roles
     of the Connecticut River
>> A Flowing Highway
>> A Water Barrier
>> A Natural Bounty
>> A Mind of Its Own
>> A Changing Face

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