Wethersfield, Connecticut: Difference between revisions

 

A [[meteorite]] fell on Wethersfield on November 8, 1982. It was the second meteorite to fall in the town in the span of 11 years, as the first crashed on April 8, 1971. It crashed through the roof of a house without injuring the occupants, as had been the case with the first meteorite as well.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/10/nyregion/meteorite-crashes-into-house-in-connecticut.html|title=Meteorite Crashes into House in Connecticut|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Robert E. Tomasson|language=English|date=November 10, 1982|accessdate=January 8, 2023}}</ref> The 1971 meteorite was sold to the [[Smithsonian]], and the 1982 meteorite was taken up as part of a collection at the [[Yale Peabody Museum]].<ref>[http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/met/met_wethersfield.html The Wethersfield Meteorite], [[Yale Peabody Museum]]. Retrieved August 21, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.wethhist.org/articles-from-the-community/2011/10/the-wethersfield-meteorites.html The Wethersfield Meteorites]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Wethersfield Historical Society, October 24, 2011</ref>

 

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* [[William Watson Andrews]] (1810–1897), clergyman

* [[Steven Anzovin]] (1954–2005), American non-fiction author

* [[Elizabeth Canning]] (1734–1773), English maid notoriously exiled for perjury

* [[Kenneth F. Cramer]] (1894–1954), U.S. Army Major General and Chief of the National Guard Bureau