Florence Griswold Museum

Exhibition Notes: Lyme’s White Churches

By |2020-11-16T11:23:39-05:00October 19, 2012|

In the first decade of the 20th century when Ellen Axson Wilson summered in Old Lyme, eight white churches dotted the landscape. Together they expressed the beliefs and responded to the needs of a rapidly changing community.

Photographs: Election Day, 1900

By |2014-06-25T18:11:51-04:00September 28, 2012|

Election day in 1900 fell on Tuesday, November 6, and Old Lyme’s eligible voters cast their ballots at the town hall starting “at 9 o’clock in the forenoon.” Above the polling place a Republican campaign banner declared: “Our Candidates McKinley & Roosevelt.”

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