BETHEL

Village Among The Hills

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Officially incorporated as a town in 1855, Bethel's recorded history stretches back to its earliest settlement as part of Danbury in 1684. Hat manufacturing represented its premier industry for nearly two centuries, and the ever-changing number of shops and factories employed most of the area's populace. Roughly equidistant from New York City and Hartford and located along the Metro-North Railroad line and US Interstate 84, its convenient access, lively downtown, and modern educational park have attracted continued development. Growing from a population of 1,711 people in 1860 to one of 20,358 in 2020, Bethel has undergone tremendous change and yet still retains much of its small-town New England appeal.

BETHEL

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BOOKS

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IMAGES of America
BETHEL
Separated from Danbury in 1855, Bethel was settled as early as 1700. Studies of the town's unique and colorful past have been somewhat neglected until recently. With Bethel, town historian Patrick Wild brings to life the people, places, industries, and institutions of the independent town from the 1860s through the 1950s.

$20
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TYPES OF THE
OLD HOME TOWN
The Bethel Historical Society,
the Art Young Gallery, and Seraphemera Books, announce the long-overdue return of illustrator and visionary Art Young with TYPES OF THE OLD HOME TOWN - the never-before published, lost for 50+ years, manuscript of Art Young, Dean of American Cartoonists, who lived and had an art gallery here in Bethel from 1904 - 1942.
Learn more, see more
of the illustrations and texts, at:

http://www.
artyounggallery.org/types.html

$45
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Historic Tales of
BETHEL CONNECTICUT
Bethel, Connecticut, was settled as early as 1700 in the rolling hills of northern Fairfield County. Rooted in hat manufacturing, the town offered many residents employment in the factories of Hickocks, Judds and Benedicts. Bethel is also the birthplace of celebrated showman P. T. Barnum, who became an international celebrity yet never forgot his hometown.

$20

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Benj Hoyt's Book
A Diary written in BETHEL, 1830
Memories of a Danbury, Connecticut man who was born in 1778, heard first hand accounts about the burning of Danbury by the British, saw the New Hampshire troops stationed there during the winter of '79, and remembers the return of the French troops from Yorktown, as well as recollections of his school days in the Bethel parish.
$5

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Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum
Signed by the author -
A. H. Saxon

As the author, A. H. Saxon,  indicates, P.T. Barnum has the paradoxical distinction of being one of America's best known, least understood phenomena.  As the reader moves through his letters from 1810 to 1891, one will discover a man who was full of ideas, a humorist, a social critic and a very
complicated man.
$30

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History of
BETHEL 1759 - 1976
Bethel, Connecticut, until 1855, when the town of Bethel was incorporated, is a history of Bethel as a part of Danbury and is accordingly incomplete, since the records were burned by the British during the Revolutionary War in the raid on Danbury.
$10

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Note Cards
Set of 6 Note Cards, 2 of each picture $10.00

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