Westville
Subtitle: Tales From a Connecticut Hamlet
By: [compiled by] Colin M. Caplan.
Series: American Chronicles
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charleston, SC, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781596295384
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: American newspapers -- Connecticut -- New Haven; Westville (New Haven, Conn.) -- History -- 19th century; New Haven (Conn.) -- History -- 19th century; Westville (616.8, Conn.) -- History -- 20th century; New Haven (Conn.) -- History -- 20th century; Westville (New Haven, Conn.) -- Social life and customs; New Haven (Conn.) -- Social life and customs; Westville (New Haven, Conn.) -- Biography; New Haven (Conn.) -- History -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Nestled below the cliffs of West Rock, the peaceful hamlet of Westville has made a name for itself over the years as an important manufacturing center and scenic refuge. Well known for harboring the regicides who signed the death warrant of England's Charles I, the village has also seen its share of patriots, pirates, rascals and murderers in the three centuries since its settlement. From the legends of the infamous Captain Thunderbolt to the inventor who installed secret panels and a trapdoor in the old Westville Library, this collection of articles tells the stories of Westville from the revealing early modern perspective of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century columnists.
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