Wicked Litchfield County

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Thieves, rumrunners and rapscallions all color the unsavory aspect of Litchfield County history. Townspeople accused girls of witchcraft merely for now not bearing enough kids within the early days of the region. All over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Owen Sullivan and William Stuart took good thing about the county’s isolated stretches and a currency shortage to build counterfeiting empires. In 1780, Barnett Davenport’s brutal actions earned him infamy because the nation’s first mass murderer. Small-time speakeasies slowly took hold, and the omnipresence of alcohol-fueled crime resulted in the birth of the nationwide prohibition movement. Local historian Peter C. Vermilyea explores these and other devilish tales from the seedier history of Litchfield County.

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