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Contents Preface / ix Introduction: The Land and Its First Inhabitants / 1 Chapter One: Colonial Connecticut / 16 Chapter Two: Turnpikes and Stagecoaches / 48 Chapter Three: Steamboats and Canals / 79 Chapter Four: The Railroad, Part I / 120 Chapter Five: The Railroad, Part II / 151 Conclusion: A Period of Transition / 187 Appendix A: Population by Geomorphic Region, 1800–1920 / 193 Appendix B: Corporation Charters / 202 Appendix C: Connecticut Rail Lines / 217 Notes / 223 Bibliography / 239 Index / 247 This page intentionally left blank ...

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