Bob Grigg - History Bytes

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 (over 480 posted as of February 13, 2011). You'll need Adobe Reader to open most of these as PDF's.

New Posts ~ December 20, 2011
Agricultural Products Arnold, Charles Baking From Scratch Canals in Northeastern Pennsylvania Colebrook River - Another Saga Colebrook's First Cider Mill Erie Canal, The Importance of Flood of 1927, The French Family's Local History, The Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Historical Odds and Ends About Colebrook, II Humor Humor II Illumination in Colonial New England Johnstown, New York Letter From Kabul, Afghanistan, 1959	Long-lost Schoolhouse Site Discovered Looking Back From 2011 Memoirs of Colebrook River (Seymour) Memories of Colebrook - Sally (Jackson) Gray Misinformation Newspaper Accounts From the Past Newspaper Accounts From the Past, II Old Newgate Coon Club, The Oral History of Frank DeMars Postal Service Prock Hill Road Update Recipes My Mother Swore By Reuben Rockwell's Lost Journal Weather Predicting West School in Colebrook Westward Migration, The
New Posts ~ March 5, 2011
The Colebrook Historical Society, Inc. Colebrook Manufacturing Company Colebrook News From January 5, 1877 Colebrook Quilt, 1867 Colebrook School Account Book Colebrook School Records Colebrook Schools Graduation – June 9, 1930 Colebrook Schools Poetry From the Past Colebrook Schools The Colebrook Store’s Place in the Community Colebrook, Tasmania School Colebrook Tasmania Sheep and Schools Colebrook, Tasmania Update Colebrook, Tasmania Continued Colebrook, Tasmania, More Colebrook Wild Flowers with Latin Names Colebrook’s Colonial Pine Colebrook’s Possible Paleo Site Corliss Mountain Facts Early Dates for the Colebrook Congregational Church Ecclesiastical Funds, Town of Colebrook The Value of Fables Items from an 1809 Newspaper Laws Governing the Residents of the Colony of Connecticut The Leonard Grain Company An Intimate View of Abe Lincoln	Lincoln Local Society in 1800 Henry Manassa Memories of Colebrook – Sally (Jackson) Gray Moon Globe Nails News Items Over the Years North Family Letters Notes Pertinent to R. Smith’s Forge’s Operation Old Leonard Pacific and Asian Letters Pacific and Asian Letters, II Pacific and Asian Letters III Pacific and Asian Letters IV Pacific and Asian Letters V Pondtown in Norfolk Pub and Restaurant in Norfolk Regicides Regicides, Conclusion Roberts Road Cemetery Robertsville, Connecticut – Tunxis Creamery Robertsville, Connecticut Rockwell Steel Furnace Charles H. Rockwell, Admiral, U.S.N. More Tools of Yesterday White Family
New Posts ~ February 13, 2011
Automobiles in 1930 Biographical Review (1896) Items Civil War – Propaganda Letter Definitions Dogs in Colebrook 1896	Eben North Letter to Rufus, July 12 (no date) Eben North Letter to Rufus, March 2nd 1817 Elections of the Past Emancipation Proclamation Enos North’s Journal
New Posts ~ February 02, 2011
Hardscrabble Road Sandisfield, MA Hale Barn Hale Barn's Place in History	Hillside Plow Highlights of Colebrook History Haystack Mountain
New Posts ~ January 10, 2011
Archaeology in Connecticut Austin Family Colebrook Land Records Austin Family Letters Barkhamsted 170 Years Ago The History of the Sage Farm (Now 23 Sandy Brook Rd.) Lieutenant Edward Carrington Chaplin Charles Dixon	Cider Colonial Heads of State and Colonial Wars Climbing the Colorado Rockies in 1874 The Colorado Rockies in 1874, Part II Colorado Rockies Part III Commodity Prices in Colebrook, 1789-1830 Cultural Patterns in Colonial New England
New Posts ~ January 9, 2011
The Sage Family of Colebrook Possible Artists of the Sage Paintings Sanderson, Dr. Roy’s Naval Diary Sandy Brook Sandy Brook Bridge Satan’s Kingdom Shay’s Rebellion	A Lesson on Slavery From a Colebrook Schoolbook Social and Cultural Events, 1809-1865 Early Land Titles at Stillman Hill 1791, March 3rd The Store that Alpha Built Capt. Wm. Swift, Artist and Mechanic Three Black Crows The Union Chair Company
New Posts ~ January 3, 2011
Archaeology In Robertsville Coconut Palm Colebrook Historical Odds & Ends Colebrook Historical Odds & Ends Colebrook Memories Sally Gray Colebrook Photographer Una Clingan Colebrook Town Expenses 1814-1825 Colebrook Veterans CT Involvement in The War of Independence CT Western Boundary False Information Guam and the Northern Marianas Guam and the Northern Marianas Part 2 Hale Barn History Hiroshima & Nagasaki Historical Inaccuracies	Historical Inaccuracies Part 2 Julia Wharton's Colebrook Julia Wharton's Colebrook Part 2 Julia Wharton's ColebrooK Part 3 Julia Wharton's Colebrook Conclusion Mills Interview Mills Interview Part 2 Nineteenth Amendment Orrin Oles Patterns in our Landscape Richmond, VA Richmond Whig Two Hundred and Twelve Years Ago US Overseas Territories Water Power
~ Archived Articles ~
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A Bear Story A Hundred Years Ago A Lesson on Slavery from a Colebrook Schoolbook Abiram Chamberlain Acts and Laws May 8, 1777 Air Spotters of WWII Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 19th American Automobile 100 Years Ago, The American Heritage Letter American Revolution – Stony Point, NY American Revolution, a Definition American War of Independence	Ammi Robbins Journal Ammi Robbins-highlights Amy Baxter's Colebrook River An Act for the Punishment of Drunkenness An Enigma Andrews, Roy Chapman Andros, Sir Edmund Anty Over The Shanty Assessments, Town of Colebrook, 1823 Attention Getters in the Nineteenth Century Australian Slang from WWII Autogiro Landing Field
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Barberry Bushes, - Colonial Enemy Barnice White Baseball in a Strange Place Beech Hill and Sandy Brook Roads Beech Hill Recollections – M. R. French (1950) Beech Hill Road Beginnings of Local Government in Connecticut Beginnings of Local Government in CT Beginnings of the American Monetary System Berkshire County, Massachusetts in 1838 Blizzard of 1779	Blizzard of 1779, Conclusion Blizzard of 1779,The Bonin Islands Book of Trades Bridge Expenses British-American Contrasts Brookside Pond Talk Buster Hart Butler, Mary E. – School Compositions, 1855 Butter Presses and Paper
Colebrook
Agriculture in Colebrook Agriculture in Colebrook 1879 Ammi Philips, Colebrook Native Ammi Philips, Colebrook's own American Folk Artist Colebrook Bridges Colebrook 170 Years Ago Colebrook Cave Colebrook Center's Beginnings Colebrook Community Center Background Colebrook Congregational Church, Early Dates Colebrook Consolidated School, The Beginnings Colebrook Fire Department History Colebrook Flagpole Colebrook History at a Glance Colebrook Humor Colebrook in the Eighteenth Century Colebrook in the Nineteenth Century Colebrook News Clippings, 1850's & 1870's Colebrook River in 1914 Colebrook River Lake, Creation of Colebrook River Recreation Colebrook River Roads Colebrook River, Thumbnail Sketch Colebrook Roads - Chapin Road Colebrook Roads - General Colebrook Road (Rt. 183)	Colebrook Roads - Moses Road Colebrook Roads - Sandy Brook Road Colebrook Roads Source Info Colebrook Store Owners Colebrook Town Clerks since 1779 Colebrook Town Expenses For 1826 Colebrook Trivia Colebrook, Ohio Colebrook, Ohio Revisited Colebrook Road, 597 Colebrook, Tasmania Colebrook’s Artist Colonies Colebrook’s Old Schoolhouses Colebrook’s Oldest House Colebrook's Artist Colonies Colebrook's Brush With Spirits Colebrook's Contribution to the Pap Test Colebrook's First Telephone Colebrook's Historical Town Documents Colebrook & the Iron Industry, 1770 - 1810 Colebrook's Non-involvement With Railroads Colebrook's Possible Paleo Site Colnbrook Early Dates in Colebrook Richard Smith Forge Site in Colebrook
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Caesar’s Rescue June 29/30, 2002 Capt. Wm. Swift, Artist and Mechanic Capture of Richard Smith’s Polly, Feb. 1st, 1783 Capture of Richard Smiths Polly Carriages and Other Wheeled Vehicles Center School in Colebrook Charcoal's Role in the Iron Industry Charles Everett Papers - Complete Text Charles H. Rockwell, Admiral, U.S.N Charlie Thompson China Central Television China Trip China Update Chinese Contact Chinese Contact, Part 2 Chinese Contact, Part 3 Chinese Cultural Exchange, 2002-2003 Chinese Educational Mission Chinese Immigration to America Chinese Students in Colebrook Chinese students mentioned in Sarah Carrington’s diaries Church Hill Rd, 61 Civil War Letter, March 10, 1863 Clippings From Old Newspapers	Conflict Between Native Americans and the Colonists Colonial Foods Colonial Foods (Early) Colonial Foods in Western New England Colonial Hunting Laws Colonial Laws Colonial Tales About Uncas Commodity Prices Commodity Prices in Colebrook – 1832 Commodity Values in Early Colonial New England Composition of Colebrook’s Original Forest Connecticut Charter and John Boyd Connie Nordstrom's Quilt Convention Troops in Connecticut Cotton Industry in Colebrook River,The Cotton Industry in New England Coy Family in Colebrook (2), The Coy Family in Colebrook, The Creating a Farm on Prock Hill, 1830’s Crime in Colebrook CT Route 8 Realignment 1966 CT's Early Money CT's Involvement in the War of Independence
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Dairying in Colebrook 1 Dairying in Colebrook 2 Deacon Grant Farm Deacon William Lawrence Dialects	Diary from Beech Hill Diary of September1947 Direction Giving, The Art of Duel Ownership
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Early Turnpike Roads Early Types of Fencing Effects of Malaria in the New World Eggers Trail	English Immigration to Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1640 Ethan Allen European Contact with New England Native Americans
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Farmington River Turnpike Rate List Feuds Flag Day is June14 Flood (1955) , Fifty Years Later Floyd Hart Flying The Hump in WWII With Lt. Wyllys Smith	Flying The Hump, Part II Flying The Hump, Conclusion Forge School Growing Pains Forge School Papers 1849 Fourth Grade Students at the Rock School, 1858 French and Indian Wars
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Gasoline Station Fire in Colebrook Center Gathering Clouds of War Genealogical Information at Historical Society General Assembly Mandated Roads Gettysburg National Cemetery	Girl Scout Cookies Great Hartford Water Grab, The Grocery Store in 1908 Growth & Development in CT Towns 1635~1790
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Hart Family of Colebrook Hartland 170 Years Ago Hessian Soldiers Buried in Colebrook Highways Around the Center Highways of Southwestern Colebrook Historical Inaccuracies	Historical Odds & Ends about Colebrook Histories of Various Colebrook Houses History of the Rock School House Fires Have Always Been With Us Houses and Early Home Life of Colebrook
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Important Trees and Shrubs in the Food Chain During Colonial Times Independence, 1776 Indian Stories From Connecticut Indian Story of Early Litchfield Indians From Litchfield Interim Report on the Archaeological Investigation at	Interim Report, Robertsville Forge, Part II Interim Report, Robertsville Forge, Part III Interim Report, Robertsville Forge, Part IV Introduced Plant Species at the Rock School Iron and Steel Items for Grandmother's Kitchen
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John Atkinson John Potpolak Kayaking on Sandybrook Krakatoa Volcanic Explosion, 1883 Ledger of Daniel Sears, 1793 Lessons From an 1825 Spelling Book Letter From E. North, 1824	Letter From L. North, 1825 Letter to Rufus North, June 15 1828 Lewis Hurd, American Patriot Lieutenant Edward Carrington Linguistic Phonics Lost in The Greenwoods Lumbering in the 1920's
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Major Categories of Colebrook History Mark Twain - Joseph Twichell Walk Medical Advice from 130 Years Ago Memories of Beech Hill Memories of Colebrook Memories of Reuben and Aurelia Rockwell Middle East, Then and Now Millbrook Road, 78, The History of Military Episodes of the Revolutionary War	Misconceptions About Early Iron Industry Miss Rockwell's Trip to Ohio, 1850 Mizner, Addison More From Colebrook, Tasmania More Tools of Yesterday Mother's Day Music From Revolutionary Period Music From WWII Miscellaneous Information
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Nancy Phelps Blum Naval Crossings of the Equator, 1812 and 1956 New Hartford 170 Years Ago Newspaper Reports From 1982 Norfolk 170 Years Ago	North Colebrook Roads North, Enos, Footnotes to Ledger North, Letter from Enos to His Parents, 1829 Notes From the Zhuhai Trip Notes on Indians from CT Historical Collections
O-P-Q
Old Colebrook Road Old Newgate Prison Origin of Litchfield County Names Origins of 474 Smith Hill Road P. T. Barnum's Recollections Panorama Hill Paper Making in Colebrook Passing of Colebrook's Dairy Industry Paul Revere's Kitchen	Petroleum Industry in Pennsylvania Phelps Road, 99 Plant Lore Postcards Preparing for Rock School Day Prock Hill Road Prohibition Era Quilting Explained
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Recollections of 1801 Reuben Rockwell's Journal 1835 Reverend Cotton Mather Smith of Sharon Riley Whiting and the Local Clock Industry Roads of Western Colebrook Robertsville Forge Update	Robertsville Roads Rockwell Spring Robertsville Forge during the War of Independence Romance of Maps Rowley Bricks Sandy Brook
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Sandy Brook Area in the 19th Century Sarah Carrington’s Recollections, 1926 School Report for Colebrook – 1886 School Report for Colebrook – 1916 School Visitor Report – 1850 Seth Hurd, Colebrook Pioneer Significance of the Gray Barn Simons Pond in Colebrook Solomon Sackett of Colebrook	Sounds of Yesterday South School Spring Water Starting With 2001 and Going Back in Time with Twenty Year Leaps Stockbridge Indian Notes Stockbridge Indians Story of the Flag Students Interact With History
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Tales of the Greenwoods Tanning Industry in the Nineteenth Century Tapping the Maple Tree Telephone of Alexander Graham Bell Telling Tales Thanksgiving Dinner During the Revolution The Perils of Teaching Grammar The Roots of our Freedoms	Time Changes Tools of Yesterday Tools of Yesterday III Tools of Yesterday IV Tornado of June 30,1976 Torrington and Harwinton 170 Years Ago Transportation in the United States Trees/Shrubs/Plants in Rock School Yard
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Underground Railroad Quilts Vegetation Existing at the Rock School Voices from the Past Wampum War of Independence - Burgoyne 1 War of Independence - Burgoyne 2 War of Independence - Burgoyne 3 Westmoreland County Connecticut Winchester 170 Years Ago	Winchester Town Records Winchester Town Roads Winsted Herald Articles - 1870s & 1880s Winsted in the 1940s Winsted Wildman Winter Road Conditions in Colebrook Witchcraft in Colonial New England Yarn-Beam Cannon Year Without a Summer, 1816

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