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History of Farmington
Sources

Part 1: The Tunxis Indians and the Settlers
Part 2: The Farming Town Prospers
Part 3: The Revolutionary War
Part 4: The Freedom Trail
Map of Colonial Farmington

Sources for History of Farmington


The Barney Library

Sources for the History of Farmington, Parts 1, 2, and 3, by Brooke E. Martin, include:

Amistad Sites (The Lost Eight Months) and Underground Railroad Locations: Farmington,
     Connecticut,
Ernest Shaw, 1997
The Diaries of Julia Cowles, 1931.
Farmington, Connecticut, A Journey of 360 Years, Ernest R. Shaw, 1995.
Farmington, Connecticut: The Village of Beautiful Homes, 1906.
Farmington, Connecticut: 350 Years In Pictures,
    
Farmington 350th Anniversary Committee. 
Farmington In Connecticut, Christopher Bickford, 1982.
Farmington: New England Town Through Time,
    
text by Barbara Donahue, photographs by Saren Langmann.
Farmington's Freedom Trail: The Amistad Story and the Underground Railroad,
    
Marguerite Yung and Jean B. Johnson, 2005
The Heritage Trail Guidebook: Farmington, CT,
     
Farmington Public Schools.

Images of America: Farmington, Jean M. Martin
A Short History of Farmington, Connecticut, Lydia Hewes, 1935.

Speaking for Ourselves, African American Life in Farmington Connecticut,
     
 Barbara Donahue and the Farmington Historical Society Research Team, 1998.
Wikipedia.org: Pages include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad 



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History of Farmington, Parts 1, 2, and 3,
and photos by Brooke E. Martin.
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