Historic Images Archives 2003
Edited by R.G. Brooks
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Edited by R.G. Brooks
Image: Drawing of Bolton Notch from the wagon road to Hartford, September
1, 1894.
Creator(s): Meech, Huntington Phelps.
Title: Bolton Notch from the wagon road to Hartford, September 1, 1894.
Date: 1894.
Description: To the left, Box Hill is covered with trees. To the right
is rocky Birch Mountain. Bolton Notch Pond and a few pine trees are in
the foreground. Several frame structures, possibly a railroad depot, houses
and barns, border the railroad tracks. A freight train is on the tracks.
Inscribed: "Bolton Notch / Sept. 1, 1894 / H.P.M. [H.P. Meech] /
From the wagon road / to Hartford."
Notes: Routes 6 and 44, in earlier days the Connecticut Path, pass through
the narrow gap known as Bolton Notch. Site of the state park established
in 1918.
Identifiers: Accession number 1961.47.12 Photo CD number 0523 img0048.pcd
Image: Drawing of Old tavern and store, Bolton.
Creator(s): Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.
Title: Old tavern and store, Bolton.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Description: Two-story wood-frame building with a lunette in the gable
and an addition at the rear. A fence and several hitching posts [?] are
in front of the entrances. The building sits on a grassy hill with a dirt
road at the far left and a log in the right foreground. Inscribed at upper
right: "Bolton Old Tavern & Store." Numerous notations include:
"Road / sandy" "distant" "The store at this end"
"owned by Calvin Carver / & he is very old" "Fences
broken & almost gone" "The man who drank / a quart of rum"
"Was whitewashed once / but nearly all washed off / the upper front
of the end / never painted." Inscribed on back: "Stage for Coventry
leaves Bolton Station at 2.20" "A good many chestnut trees about
/ Bolton."
Identifiers: Accession number 1976.68.0 Photo CD number 0523 img0030.pcd
Image: Photo of Spencer homestead, Bolton.
Title: Spencer homestead, Bolton.
Date: 1889.
Description: Two-story house with a gambrel roof, partially hidden by
trees, apparently fruit trees. A dirt road is at the left. Three carriages
or buggies are near a split rail fence that adjoins a Virginia rail fence.
Inscribed on back: "Jabez / Selden / Spencer homestead / Hebron Road
in Bolton Conn. / about 1889."
Identifiers: Accession number X.1973.424.0 Photo CD number 0523 img0017.pcd
Image: Photo of Workers in Bolton Notch.
Title: Workers in Bolton Notch.
Date: [between 1870 and 1890]
Description: Ten men standing on or near railroad flat car on tracks surrounded
by high rock walls.
Notes: Writing with ink, spotting, creases on photograph.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0083 Photo CD Number IMG0003-1455
Location Box A-Bridgeport, ff Bolton
Image: Photo of Cutting ice, Bolton
Title: Cutting ice near railroad station, Bolton
Date: [between 1890 and 1920]
Description: 2 men and 1 boy standing near partially frozen over pond.
Horse pulling sled with blocks of ice nearby. House and station building
in background.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0082 Photo CD Number IMG0018-1012
Image: Postcard of Bolton station, Bolton.
Title: Bolton station, Bolton.
Date: [between 1900 and 1930]
Description: Three men on or near flatbed rail car on tracks in front
of station building. Posters on walls of building. Rocky hills rise up
behind tracks and building. Road with bridge over tracks on right.
Originally a postcard.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0080 Photo CD Number IMG0089-1015
Image: Postcard of Bolton Notch.
Title: Bolton Notch.
Date: [between 1890 and 1920]
Description: Train engine and boxcars on tracks near buildings to sides
of tracks. Rocky hillside and road with rock wall on either side of tracks.
Water in distance.
Originally a postcard.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0079 Photo CD Number IMG0088-1015
Image: Postcard of Number 22, Bolton Hill Cut, Bolton.
Title: Number 22, Bolton Hill Cut, Bolton.
Date: [between 1880 and 1930]
Description: Railroad tracks surrounded by rock that has been cut/blasted
away to level ground for track.
Originally a postcard.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0078 Photo CD Number IMG0087-1015
Image: Postcard of Railroad station, Bolton Notch.
Title: Railroad station, Bolton Notch.
Date: [between 1910 and 1930]
Description: Engine pulling cars pulls in front of station building with
sign "Bolton". People waiting outside building for train.
Originally a postcard.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0086 Photo CD Number IMG0086-1015
Image: Postcard of Bolton Notch, Bolton.
Title: Engine on snow covered tracks in Bolton Notch, Bolton.
Date: 1908
Description: Snow and ice covered railroad tracks with engine under
bridge connecting two hills above. Train approaching through the notch.
Originally a postcard.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0085 Photo CD Number IMG0085-1015
Image: Postcard of Railroad station, Bolton.
Title: Old station at Bolton which was burned.
Date: [between 1870 and 1900]
Description: Boxcars on railroad tracks, stacks of railroad ties surround
two small wood frame buildings.
Originally a postcard.
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0084 Photo CD Number IMG0084-1015
Image: Drawing of Bolton stone quarry.
Creator(s): Barber, John Warner 1798-1885.
Title: Bolton stone quarry. Date: [ca. 1836].
Description: A drawing of men at work in a stone quarry in Bolton. Men
are shown pulling slate from a hillside. Two men in top hats in the lower
left watch the use of long bows and pulleys to move the stone. A horse
or mule is tied in the distance in front of a white building.
Identifiers: Accession number 1953.5.13 Photo CD number 2826 img0071.pcd
Image: Photo of Railroad station, Bolton
Title: New Haven Railroad station, Bolton
Date: [between 1900 and 1930]
Description: Wood framed station building with advertising posters on
walls. Tracks in front of building. Posters advertise "Smith Brothers
Cough Drops" and "Bromo-Seltzer"
Identifiers: Accession number UC17-0081 Photo CD Number IMG0017-1012
Image: Drawing of Manchester, " Looking East toward Bolton".
Creator(s): Barber, John Warner 1798-1885.
Title: Manchester.
Date: 1835.
Description: This was in Manchester, to the west, but was labled at the
time as looking down the road East toward Bolton notch. Now known as East
Center Street (Route 6) near its junction with Main Street. A broad tree-lined
street fences on either side. On the right are two churches, the Congregational
Church and the Methodist Church. Details of both churches appear above.
Identifiers: Accession number 1953.5.160 Photo CD number 2798 img0045.pcd
Image: Drawing of Bolton quarry.
Creator(s): Barber, John Warner 1798-1885.
Title: Bolton quarry. Date: 1834.
Description: View of the quarry in Bolton Notch. The cliff from which
the stone is being quarried is at the left. Derricks for lifting and moving
stones are in the center and right background. A large building with a
tall chimney is also in the right background. The stone being quarried
is a light gray slate, used for flagging and other purposes.
Identifiers: Accession number 1953.5.14 Photo CD number 2798 img0052.pcd
Image: Photo of Bolton Notch, Bolton.
Creator(s): Ham, Oliver H.
Title: Bolton Notch, Bolton.
Date: [ca. 1896]
Description: Large rock formation. Shrubs and pine trees are on top of
the stony cliff. Railroad tracks run along the bottom of the notch. Utility
poles are to the right.
Identifiers: Accession number X.1998.419.0 Photo CD number 0523 img0050.pcd
Image: Drawing of William Grant house, Bolton.
Creator(s): Street, Esther D.
Title: William Grant house, Bolton.
Date: [185-]
Description: A frame structure with two chimneys, multiple entrances,
a pedimented door and louvered shutters at the windows is behind a fence.
Several trees are nearby. The corner of another building, possibly a barn,
is at the right. Inscribed: "Sketched by / Esther D. Street / 12
years old or / less / looking Northeast / Mr. William Grant House / Bolton,
Conn / as seen from the old oak tree."
Identifiers: Accession number 1987.195.250 Photo CD number 0523 img0042.pcd
Image: Engine #363 New York New Haven and Hartford Line at Bolton Notch.
Date: 1900's
Description: Three Men and a woman in front of the imposing steam engine
stopped at Bolton Notch Station.
Image: Railroad Station at the Notch, Bolton.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Description: Kind of a wide angle shot of the Bolton Station showing the
signal pole and the tracks leading through the Notch to the left.
Image: Bolton Station.
Date: Unknown
Description: Shows tracks with switch for siding next to the Station house.
Believed to be prior to 1900.
Notice man or soldier standing next to the signal pole.
Image: Photo of bridge at Bolton notch in the 50's
Date: 1950
Description: Topless wooden bridge at Bolton Notch with car on bridge.
Image: Photo of new bridge at Bolton notch after 1955
Date: 1955
Description: New bridge at Bolton Notch just completed in 1955. The narrow
notch of the 19th century has become a broad notch indeed.
