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Avon, Connecticut's First Century: Visionaries and Victims

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Availability:In StockContributor:Scott R. LewisPublish date:10/14/2025Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781467170147ISBN-10:1467170143UPC:9781467170147Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.92 x 6.12 x 0.67 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCDQE772K2

Avon, Connecticut's First Century: Visionaries and Victims

Avon, Connecticut, has had a long history of people who challenged conventions and persevered through tragedy. There was the clock peddler's encounter with Abraham Lincoln, a suffragist's political showdown with her cousin Eleanor Roosevelt and a man who betrayed his brother-in-law, Thomas Edison. Before the Heublein Tower, art patron Daniel Wadsworth built the first of three viewing towers on...

Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781467170147ISBN-10:1467170143UPC:9781467170147Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.92 x 6.12 x 0.67 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCDQE772K2

A resident of Avon, Connecticut, Scott Lewis is on the board of the Avon Land Trust and has given several presentations on the town's history. In addition to serving as treasurer of the land trust, he builds and maintains hiking trails in Avon. A descendant of signer Josiah Bartlett from New Hampshire, Scott serves as treasurer-general for the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of...

Publisher: History Press

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Scott R. Lewis

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