From the Archives offers a local history perspective on Lyme’s Albany connections to accompany the Florence Griswold Museum’s summer 2012 exhibition On Hudson: Highlights from the Albany Institute of History & Art.
Read More Florence Griswold house, Lyme, New England out-migration, William Noyes
Today a tangle of scrub trees and the Florence Griswold Museum’s paved driveway occupy the site of the historic Brick Store, a distinctive two-story building that stood for more than a century in the village.
Read More Baptist Church, Bow Bridge, Capt. Robert H. Griswold, Charles J. McCurdy, Higgins Wharf, Lieutenant River, Lyme Art Association, William Noyes
The pastel portrait of Abigail Leverett Noyes drawn by itinerant British artist James Martin ca. 1798 lets us picture a young woman from Lyme who moved as a bride to the Hudson River Valley. The marriage contributed one strand to an expanding web of connections linking Albany and Lyme.
Read More Abigail Noyes Sill, Charles C. Griswold, Col. Samuel Belcher, First Congregational Church, James Martin, John L. Sill, portraits, Revolutionary War, smuggling, village schools, William Noyes
Shad nets stored on wooden reels were once a familiar sight along the Connecticut River. This photograph, taken ca. 1885 near the Reuben Champion house at Ferry Point, recalls the days when “shadding” was an important source of local income.
Read More farming, Ferry Point, Gold Rush, Poverty Island, shad fishing, shipbuilding, West Indies trade, William Noyes