While we were working on 1 Imlay, we were very fortunate to meet Eileen Curtis, a nurse who works for Aetna and who walked by our house as she went to and from her car. Her great-great grandmother Eliza Brazell owned 1 Imlay in the 1870s, and her father could remember visiting his great grandmother there while he was a child.
We also found a bunch of stuff in the walls, among which was this invitation for a wedding on October 16, 1878 -- two sisters marrying two brothers on their family's "island home" in Windsor Locks. Eileen and her sister did some digging, and they came across a reference to King's Island in Enfield, which is now owned by Northeast Utilities. It's accessible by canoe, and apparently you can still find evidence of the house where the wedding would have been.
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