Groton Railroad Tickets

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2026.040.113

Scope and Content

Collection of tickets from the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the Central Vermont Railroad, the New London Northern Railroad, the New York, and Providence and Boston Railroad, 1867-1937. Includes a ticket for the observation train of the 1894 Yale-Harvard Boat Race on the Thames River, tickets belonging to photographer Everett A. Scholfield and a ticket book recording passengers on the New London Northern Railroad in 1888.

Context

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. was formed through a merger of the New York and New Haven and Hartford and New Haven Railroads in 1872 and operated primarily in Southern New England. The line ran through Groton, CT. 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. This line ran through Groton, CT. It was acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. in 1892. The New London Northern Railroad was part of the Central Vermont Railway, connecting New London, CT and Brattleboro, VT. It succeeded the New London, Willimantic and Palmer Railroad in 1861. It was later consolidated with the Canadian National Railway and the New England Central Railroad.

Collection

Carol Kimball Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2026.040

Source or Donor

Carol Kimball

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Ticket

Nomenclature Class

Exchange Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

NY, NH & H RR

Archive Details

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