Groton Railroad Correspondence

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2026.040.114

Scope and Content

Collection of correspondence regarding the Stonington & Providence Railroad and the New York, Providence & Boston Railroad, 1848-1890. *Letter from former Senator Philip Morgan to present member of the House of Representatives, Giles Chapman, re. CT legislature regarding the railroads, May 2, 1848. *Letter from the superintendent of the Stonington and Providence Railroad, February 24, 1859. *Letter from the treasurer's office of the New York, Providence & Boston Railroad regarding the Stonington Line, October 1866. *Letter on stationery from the Stonington and Providence Railroad, from the RR superintendent to the treasurer, January 13, 1869. *Letter from the accounting department of the New York, Providence & Boston Railroad regarding the Stonington Line, May 27, 1885. *Letter from the mechanical department of the New York, Providence & Boston Railroad to Charles L. Searle, a railroad employee at Noank, Conn., May 18, 1890. *Letter regarding the arrival of mail from California by train and steamship, undated.

Context

The New York, Providence & Boston Railroad Co. was a railway connecting Boston to Stonington, CT and steamship line connecting Stonington, CT to New York. In 1859, the company leased the New Haven, New London and Stonington Railroad, creating a line from Providence to New Haven with ferry service across the Thames and Connecticut Rivers.

Collection

Carol Kimball Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2026.040

Source or Donor

Carol Kimball

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1848 - 1890

Archive Size/Extent

1 folder

Provenance

Notes

Part of a collection of records collected by Carol Kimball during her tenure as the Town of Groton Historian; given to the Groton Historical Society following her death; stored for several years at the Avery Copp Museum; donated to the Groton Public Library 2026