{"id":2064,"date":"2011-09-08T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:15:36","slug":"tariffville-dam-on-the-farmington-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/09\/08\/tariffville-dam-on-the-farmington-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffville Dam on the Farmington River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/1996-0010_ph152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2065 \" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/1996-0010_ph152.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/1996-0010_ph152.jpg 2759w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/1996-0010_ph152-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/1996-0010_ph152-1024x289.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/1996-0010_ph152-500x141.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Tariffville Dam on the Farmington River, ca. 1915<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The last two posts of this week showed some photographs of Walter Atkin, an employee at the Tariffville Dam, who went fishing from an open window at the hydroelectric station.\u00a0 Those photographs were just three of many interesting images of the dam that we find in the\u00a0Hartford Electric Light Company Records, one of which includes this beautiful wide angled shot\u00a0of the dam, taken circa 1915.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left\">The\u00a0\u00a0Tariffville Dam hydroelectric station was built in 1899 on the Farmington River in Simsbury, Connecticut, by the Hartford Electric Light Company.\u00a0 It provided electricity to the Hartford area\u00a0until at least August 1955, when it was destroyed by flooding caused by back to back hurricanes in August 1955.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariffville Dam on the Farmington River, ca. 1915 The last two posts of this week showed some photographs of Walter Atkin, an employee at the Tariffville Dam, who went fishing from an open window at the hydroelectric station.\u00a0 Those photographs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/09\/08\/tariffville-dam-on-the-farmington-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22,38,96],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-xi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}