The Lyme Local History Archives lost our good friend, Doris “Doad” Reynolds Jewett, who died December 10, 2013 at 100 years old. She was a volunteer in the Archives for several years until just four years ago. She would walk over from the home she grew up in on Hamburg Cove to the Lyme Public Hall, always…
In the years between 1880 and 1930, there was a big change in Lyme, CT’s population profile. Overall, the population declined by almost one-half. Even more remarkably, the number of households headed by farmers, dropped by almost 70%. Connecticut as a whole at the end of the 19th century was experiencing strong growth in the cities, manufacturing, the railroads, and improved…
Long before a Lyme Public Library was established in 1914, town residents in the 18th and 19th centuries organized a number of ways to lend and borrow books. A surprise? Not really. Although there were books in print, they were not generally accessible or affordable to the general population. It was the case then, just as now,…