Bob Grigg's "Bytes of History"


Born in Colebrook on Dec. 8 1932, Bob Grigg attended the Colebrook Center School through the eighth grade, graduated from Lyndon Institute in Lyndon Center, Vermont, enlisted in US Navy (1952-56), Clark Univ. (1956-60), then embarked upon a career as a cartographer, finishing as the Information Editor for Hammond, Inc. of Maplewood, New Jersey.

After returning to Colebrook, Bob became involved with the Colebrook Land Conservancy and the Colebrook Historical Society, which ultimately led to his being named Municipal Historian for the town of Colebrook.  For the past ten years Bob has written a weekly column in the Winsted Journal under the byline "Historic Bytes."

Bob has been married to Anna Grigg for the past twenty-five years, and has a daughter, Robin, who is married to Rick Tillotson.  They all live in Colebrook.

Below is an alphabetical index of Bob's many and diverse articles (323 posted as of March 3, 2010). You'll need Adobe Reader to open most of these as PDF's.

 

A

A Bear Story

Ammi Philips, Colebrook Native

A Hundred Years Ago

Ammi Robbins Journal

A Lesson on Slavery from a Colebrook Schoolbook

Ammi Robbins-highlights

Abiram Chamberlain

Amy Baxter's Colebrook River

Acts and Laws May 8, 1777

An Act for the Punishment of Drunkenness

Agriculture in Colebrook

An Enigma

Agriculture in Colebrook 1879

Andrews, Roy Chapman

Air Spotters of WWII

Andros, Sir Edmund

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 19th Anty Over The Shanty

American Automobile 100 Years Ago, The

Assessments, Town of Colebrook, 1823

American Heritage Letter

Attention Getters in the Nineteenth Century

American Revolution – Stony Point, NY

Australian Slang from WWII

American Revolution, a Definition

Autogiro Landing Field

American War of Independence

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B

Barberry Bushes, - Colonial Enemy

Blizzard of 1779, Conclusion

Barnice White

Blizzard of 1779,The

Baseball in a Strange Place

Bonin Islands

   

Beech Hill and Sandy Brook Roads

Book of Trades

Beech Hill Recollections – M. R. French (1950)

Bridge Expenses

Beech Hill Road

British-American Contrasts

Beginnings of Local Government in Connecticut

Brookside Pond Talk

Beginnings of Local Government in CT

Buster Hart

Beginnings of the American Monetary System

Butler, Mary E. – School Compositions, 1855

Berkshire County, Massachusetts in 1838

Butter Presses and Paper

Blizzard of 1779

C

Caesar’s Rescue June 29/30, 2002

Colebrook Roads - Moses Road

Capt. Wm. Swift, Artist and Mechanic

Colebrook Roads - Sandy Brook Road

Capture of Richard Smith’s Polly, Feb. 1st, 1783

Colebrook Roads Source Info

Capture of Richard Smiths Polly

Colebrook Store Owners

Carriages and Other Wheeled Vehicles

Colebrook Town Clerks since 1779

Center School in Colebrook

Colebrook Town Expenses For 1826

Charcoal's Role in the Iron Industry

Colebrook Trivia

Charles Everett Papers - Complete Text

Colebrook, Ohio

Charles H. Rockwell, Admiral, U.S.N

Colebrook, Ohio Revisited

  Colebrook Road, 597

Charlie Thompson

Colebrook, Tasmania

China Central Television

Colebrook’s Artist Colonies

China Trip

Colebrook’s Old Schoolhouses

China Update

Colebrook’s Oldest House

Chinese Contact

Colebrook's Artist Colonies

Chinese Contact, Part 2

Colebrook's Brush With Spirits

Chinese Contact, Part 3

Colebrook's Contribution to the Pap Test

Chinese Cultural Exchange, 2002-2003

Colebrook's First Telephone

Chinese Educational Mission

Colebrook's Historical Town Documents

Chinese Immigration to America

Colebrook & the Iron Industry, 1770 - 1810

Chinese Students in Colebrook

Colebrook's Non-involvement With Railroads

Chinese students mentioned in Sarah Carrington’s diaries

Colebrook's Possible Paleo Site

Church Hill Rd, 61  

Civil War Letter, March 10, 1863

Colnbrook

Clippings From Old Newspapers

Conflict Between Native Americans and the Colonists

Colebrook 170 Years Ago

Colonial Foods

Colebrook Bridges

Colonial Foods (Early)

Colebrook Cave

Colonial Foods in Western New England

Colebrook Center's Beginnings

Colonial Hunting Laws

Colebrook Community Center Background

Colonial Laws

Colebrook Congregational Church, Early Dates

Colonial Tales About Uncas

Colebrook Consolidated School, The Beginnings

Commodity Prices

Colebrook Fire Department  History

Commodity Prices in Colebrook – 1832

Colebrook Flagpole

Commodity Values in Early Colonial New England

Colebrook History at a Glance

Composition of Colebrook’s Original Forest

Colebrook Humor

Connecticut Charter and John Boyd

Colebrook in the Eighteenth Century

Connie Nordstrom's Quilt

Colebrook in the Nineteenth Century

Convention Troops in Connecticut

Colebrook News Clippings, 1850's & 1870's

Cotton Industry in Colebrook River,The

Colebrook River in 1914

Cotton Industry in New England

Colebrook River Lake, Creation of

Coy Family in Colebrook (2), The

Colebrook River Recreation

Coy Family in Colebrook, The

Colebrook River Roads

Creating a Farm on Prock Hill, 1830’s

Colebrook River, Thumbnail Sketch

Crime in Colebrook

Colebrook Road (Rt. 183)

CT Route 8 Realignment 1966

Colebrook Roads - Chapin Road

CT's Early Money

Colebrook Roads - General

CT's Involvement in the War of Independence

D

Dairying in Colebrook 1

Diary from Beech Hill

Dairying in Colebrook 2

Diary of September1947

Deacon Grant Farm

Direction Giving, The Art of

Deacon William Lawrence

Duel Ownership

Dialects

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E

Early Dates in Colebrook

Eggers Trail

Early Turnpike Roads

English Immigration to Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1640

Early Types of Fencing

Ethan Allen

Effects of Malaria in the New World

European Contact with New England Native Americans

F

Farmington River Turnpike Rate List

Flying The Hump, Part II

Feuds

Flying The Hump, Conclusion

Flag Day is June14

Forge School Growing Pains

Flood (1955) , Fifty Years Later

Forge School Papers 1849

Floyd Hart

Fourth Grade Students at the Rock School, 1858

Flying The Hump in WWII With Lt. Wyllys Smith

French and Indian Wars

G

Gasoline Station Fire in Colebrook Center

Girl Scout Cookies

Gathering Clouds of War

Great Hartford Water Grab, The

Genealogical Information at Historical Society

Grocery Store in 1908

General Assembly Mandated Roads

Growth & Development in CT Towns 1635~1790

Gettysburg National Cemetery

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H

Hartland 170 Years Ago

Historical Odds & Ends about Colebrook

Hessian Soldiers Buried in Colebrook

Histories of Various Colebrook Houses

Highways Around the Center

History of the Rock School

Highways of Southwestern Colebrook

House Fires Have Always Been With Us

Historical Inaccuracies

Houses and Early Home Life of Colebrook

I

Important Trees and Shrubs in the Food
Chain During Colonial Times

Interim Report, Robertsville Forge, Part II

Independence, 1776

Interim Report, Robertsville Forge, Part III

Indian Stories From Connecticut

Interim Report, Robertsville Forge, Part IV

Indian Story of Early Litchfield

Introduced Plant Species at the Rock School

Indians From Litchfield

Iron and Steel

Interim Report on the Archaeological Investigation at
the Richard Smith Forge Site in Colebrook

Items for Grandmother's Kitchen

J-K-L

John Atkinson

Letter From L. North, 1825

John Potpolak

Letter to Rufus North, June 15 1828

Kayaking on Sandybrook

Lewis Hurd, American Patriot

Krakatoa Volcanic Explosion, 1883

Lieutenant Edward Carrington

Ledger of Daniel Sears, 1793

Linguistic Phonics

Lessons From an 1825 Spelling Book

Lost in TheGreenwoods

Letter From E. North, 1824

Lumbering in the 1920's

M

Major Categories of Colebrook History

Misconceptions About Early Iron Industry

Mark Twain - Joseph Twichell Walk

Miss Rockwell's Trip to Ohio, 1850

Medical Advice from 130 Years Ago

Mizner, Addison

Memories of Beech Hill

More From Colebrook, Tasmania

Memories of Colebrook

More Tools of Yesterday

Memories of Reuben and Aurelia Rockwell

Mother's Day

Middle East, Then and Now

Music From Revolutionary Period

Millbrook Road, 78, The History of Music From WWII

Military Episodes of the Revolutionary War

Miscellaneous Information

N

Nancy Phelps Blum

North Colebrook Roads

Naval Crossings of the Equator, 1812 and 1956

North, Enos, Footnotes to Ledger

New Hartford 170 Years Ago

North, Letter from Enos to His Parents, 1829

Newspaper Reports From 1982

Notes From the Zhuhai Trip

Norfolk 170 Years Ago

Notes on Indians from CT Historical Collections

O-P-Q

Old Colebrook Road

Petroleum Industry in Pennsylvania

Old Newgate Prison

Phelps Road, 99

Origin of Litchfield County Names Plant Lore

Origins of 474 Smith Hill Road

Postcards

P. T. Barnum's Recollections

Preparing for Rock School Day

Panorama Hill

Prock Hill Road

Paper Making in Colebrook

Prohibition Era

Passing of Colebrook's Dairy Industry

Quilting Explained

Paul Revere's Kitchen

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R

Recollections of 1801

Robertsville Roads

Reuben Rockwell's Journal 1835

Rockwell Spring

Reverend Cotton Mather Smith of Sharon

Role of the Robertsville Forge During the War of Independence

Riley Whiting and the Local Clock Industry

Romance of Maps

Roads of Western Colebrook

Rowley Bricks

Robertsville Forge Update

Sandy Brook

S

Sandy Brook Area in the 19th Century

Sounds of Yesterday

Sarah Carrington’s Recollections, 1926

South School

School Report for Colebrook – 1886

Spring Water

School Report for Colebrook – 1916

Starting With 2001 and Going Back in Time with Twenty Year Leaps

School Visitor Report – 1850

Stockbridge Indian Notes

Seth Hurd, Colebrook Pioneer

Stockbridge Indians

Significance of the Gray Barn

Story of the Flag

Simons Pond in Colebrook

Students Interact With History

Solomon Sackett of Colebrook

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T

Tales of the Greenwoods

Time Changes

Tanning Industry in the Nineteenth Century

Tools of Yesterday

Tapping the Maple Tree

Tools of Yesterday III

Telephone of Alexander Graham Bell

Tools of Yesterday IV

Telling Tales

Tornado of June 30,1976

Thanksgiving Dinner During the Revolution

Torrington and Harwinton 170 Years Ago

The Perils of Teaching Grammar

Transportation in the United States

The Roots of our Freedoms

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U-Z

Underground Railroad Quilts

Winchester Town Records

Vegetation Existing at the Rock School

Winchester Town Roads

Voices from the Past

Winsted Herald Articles - 1870s & 1880s

Wampum

Winsted in the 1940s

War of Independence - Burgoyne 1

Winsted Wildman

War of Independence - Burgoyne 2

Winter Road Conditions in Colebrook

War of Independence - Burgoyne 3

Witchcraft in Colonial New England

Westmoreland County Connecticut Yarn-Beam Cannon

Winchester 170 Years Ago

Year Without a Summer, 1816

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