The Civil War battle of Mobile Bay was planned on the porch of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles' house and what is now Emmy Lou's gift shop. The town has more pre-1800s homes than any town in the United States except Marblehead, Mass.
These little factoids plus hundreds of archival photos of town are part of "Glastonbury," the newest addition to Arcadia Publishing's popular Images of America by Robert Hubbard and the Historical Society of Glastonbury. The book includes more than 200 vintage images and "memories of days gone by."
The book includes photos from the 1800s and 1900s of the town first settled by the English in 1636. Situated across the Connecticut River from its mother settlement of Wethersfield, Glastonbury became a shipbuilding center and later a manufacturer of gunpowder, ship anchors, cotton products, soap, and aircraft. One of the largest towns by area in the state, its rich soil led to the establishment of extensive orchards and a large poultry business.
BOOK IS AVAILABLE AT EMMY LOU'S AND AT THE MUSEUM ON THE GREEN
