About the Chronicler

The Norwalk Chronicler is a reading room for one city’s printed past. It brings together 6 runs of Norwalk newspapers — 110,523 pages from 1818 to 1926 — and 20 books on Norwalk’s history, families and businesses published between 1836 and 1929, and makes every word of them searchable.

It is built for anyone with a question about Norwalk’s past: family historians tracing a name, neighbors curious about their street, teachers, students and local historians. Every search result leads back to the original page, and every newspaper page links to its scan at the Connecticut Digital Archive, so you can always check the printed original.

What you can do here

• Find a name, street, business or phrase across every page.
• Ask a question in plain English and get an answer drawn only from the pages, with every claim cited.
• Browse issue by issue, the way you would a bound volume.
• Read the books in full, with search inside each one.
• Explore the map of addresses and neighborhoods named in the papers.

A word of caution

The text was produced by optical character recognition (OCR) from old, sometimes damaged pages. It is full of misreadings — the search allows for this, but always read the scan before you quote anything. See How it works for details, and Cite for how to reference what you find.

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