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- Author: Scott Lewis
- Publisher: History Press
- ISBN-10: 1467170143
- ISBN-13: 9781467170147
- Format: 15.5 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Avon, Connecticut has had a long history of people who challenged conventions and persevered through tragedy. There was the clock peddler's encounter with Abraham Lincoln, a suffragist's political showdown with her cousin Eleanor Roosevelt, and a man who betrayed his brother-in-law, Thomas Edison. Before the Heublein Tower, art patron Daniel Wadsworth built the first of two viewing towers on Avon Mountain. Following the courage of local abolitionist David Bartlett, Black Civil War soldier Leverett Holden fought for emancipation. Shocking events included one of the first murder cases in America to test the insanity defense, homicides at a house doomed for bloodshed, and the horrific factory fire that shattered the lives of immigrant families. Scott Lewis reveals the stories of the visionaries and victims who shaped the town of Avon's future.
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- Author: Scott Lewis
- Publisher: History Press
- ISBN-10: 1467170143
- ISBN-13: 9781467170147
- Format: 15.5 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Avon, Connecticut has had a long history of people who challenged conventions and persevered through tragedy. There was the clock peddler's encounter with Abraham Lincoln, a suffragist's political showdown with her cousin Eleanor Roosevelt, and a man who betrayed his brother-in-law, Thomas Edison. Before the Heublein Tower, art patron Daniel Wadsworth built the first of two viewing towers on Avon Mountain. Following the courage of local abolitionist David Bartlett, Black Civil War soldier Leverett Holden fought for emancipation. Shocking events included one of the first murder cases in America to test the insanity defense, homicides at a house doomed for bloodshed, and the horrific factory fire that shattered the lives of immigrant families. Scott Lewis reveals the stories of the visionaries and victims who shaped the town of Avon's future.
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