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Deep River’s 19th Century seafaring history
Deep River's 19th Century seafaring history. Join us on March 27, 7:00pm at the Deep River Historical Society Carriage House! The Deep River Historical Society will host a book talk and signing on March 27th in the Carriage House at 7 pm by Frank Santoro. Frank has...
Amazing Tales CT
Amazing Tales Connecticut – XYZ Tombstone, Deep River The name on his gravestone is XYZ. He was shot to death during a bank robbery in Deep River in 1899. No one knows for certain who he was. The one person who might know was the mysterious woman, dressed in black,...
Honoring our veterans as we celebrate our country’s independence
Eugene Wallace Post, Gene to his friends, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on November 19, 1939 just eight days after his seventeenth birthday serving as a torpedo man. The U.S.S. Growler, a Gato-Class submarine, was commissioned on March 20, 1942, under the command of...
Jennie Smith Floyd 1857-1934 An Open Book with A Missing Chapter
Jennie Smith Floyd was one of Deep River's most respectable and reliable citizens, a tireless worker for her adopted family, for their businesses, and for the Baptist Church. In those respects, her life was an open book, but little is known about her life-book's open...
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