Norwalk ChroniclerSources
7 newspaper runs · 137,963 pages · 1818–1926 · 20 books 1836–1929
Newspapers · 7 runs · 137,963 pages
1818–1883 · 10,753 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 6 May 1818, last 24 April 1883. Gaps: 1828-1829, 1849. Under 20 issues in 1822, 1827, 1830-1832, 1834-1836.
1870–1887 · 3,869 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 24 November 1870, last 23 December 1887.
1883–1896 · 3,961 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 1 May 1883, last 24 January 1896.
1887–1926 · 106,012 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 3 December 1887, last 31 December 1926.
1890–1896 · 4,111 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 20 December 1890, last 1 February 1896. Gaps: 1892.
1896–1899 · 6,739 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 3 February 1896, last 29 June 1899.
1896–1900 · 2,518 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
First issue 31 January 1896, last 16 February 1900.
Page images and OCR text from the Connecticut Digital Archive (UConn Library). The newspapers themselves are in the public domain.
Books · 20
John Warner Barber · 1836 · archive.org
Royal R. Hinman · 1846 · archive.org
Edwin Hall · 1855 · archive.org
Edwin Hall · 1865 (of the 1847 original) · archive.org
D. Hamilton Hurd (ed.) · 1881 · archive.org
W. Andrew Boyd · 1883 · archive.org
Rev. Charles M. Selleck · 1886 · archive.org
William Hale Beckford · 1887 · archive.org
John Emery Morris · 1888 · archive.org
James Boughton · 1890 · archive.org
David H. Van Hoosear · 1895 · archive.org
Rev. Charles M. Selleck · 1896 · archive.org
J. H. Beers & Co. · 1899 · archive.org
Rev. Charles M. Selleck · 1900 · archive.org
Samuel Richards Weed (ed.), Norwalk Historical and Memorial Library Association · 1902 · archive.org
Grand Army of the Republic · 1908 · archive.org
Ella Frances (Reed) Wright · 1909 · archive.org
Seymour Morris · 1918 · archive.org
Harold S. Palmer · 1920 · archive.org
Elsie N. Danenberg · 1929 · archive.org
Public-domain scans and OCR text from the Internet Archive.
Maps and places
- South Norwalk and Norwalk, Conn., 1875, O.H. Bailey & Co. — Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library. No known copyright restrictions.
- Edwin Hall, The Principal Parts of Norwalk in the Year 1847, with a Plan of the Ancient Settlement — fold-out plate in Hall’s Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk (Internet Archive). Pinned to today’s map at 20 points that still exist (mostly road junctions, plus the Mill Pond, the Green and the railroad bridge) and bent to fit them; between those points expect it to be off by about 50 m (median 48 m, worst 85 m in leave-one-out tests).
- The 1875 Bailey bird’s-eye view as an overlay is warped by Allmaps.
- Landmark positions: OpenStreetMap where the building or place still exists; otherwise the street the newspapers name, or Hall’s aligned 1847 plan. Each landmark links to the clippings that mention it.
- Neighborhood boundaries: City of Norwalk GIS (Neighborhoods 2020 and neighborhood-association layers).
- Street locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Nominatim. Satellite imagery: Esri World Imagery.