May 17, 2018 at 6:30
Haddam Historical Society Annual Meeting
Haddam Volunteer Fire Department #1, 439 Saybrook Road, Higganum, CT
2018 Annual Meeting and election of new board members and officers.
May 17, 2018 at 7 pm
Haddam Volunteer Fire Department #1, 439 Saybrook Road, Higganum, CT
Max Miller – Along the Valley Line: The History of the Connecticut Valley Railroad
On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 7 pm Higganum resident, train historian and author Max Miller will talk about his new book
Along the Valley Line: The History of the Connecticut Valley Railroad.
The program will take place at the Haddam Fire Station No. 1, 439 Saybrook Road, Higganum. The program is free and open to the public. There will be a short Haddam Historical Society business meeting at 6:30 prior to the presentation.
The Connecticut Valley Railroad (CVRR) completed in 1871, once carried both passenger and freight traffic along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Saybrook. Miller, who is a historian for the CVRR and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, has long been collecting documents, photographs and memorabilia and has recently published the first comprehensive history of the line which includes stories of train wrecks, ghosts and booms and bust.
