Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

Record books, None; Probate files, 1831-1953.

The Mansfield Training School opened on July 1, 1917 as a home for persons with mental retardation. It closed in 1993.

Handwritten slips from church, vital and estate records compiled by Robert R. Bisaillon for Mariages de la paroisse St. Anne of Waterbury, Connecticut: 1886-1982.

Marilyn P.A. Seichter (1945-2002), the first woman to graduate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, specialized in the fields of women's rights and family law. She served as the first women president of the Connecticut Bar Association among other posts.

Record books, 1846-1945; Files, 1846-1938.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission was established when Governor William A. O'Neil issued Executive Order Number 15 on January 10, 1986. The Connecticut General Assembly in 1989 passed Public Act 89-258, "An Act Creating the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission," to ensure the "commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the state is meaningful and reflective of the spirit with which he lived and the struggles for which he died." The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities is the secretariat for the holiday commission.

The papers consist of material pertaining to Mathias Spiess who was an amateur historian with an interest in Connecticut Indians and the town of Manchester. Spiess in 1936 served as a Republican selectman and in 1937 and 1938 was a police commissioner for the town of Manchester. Included in the papers are correspondence, subject files, writings, and maps.

Correspondence and a notebook of the Francis McLean family of Vernon, Conn.

Rev. Calvin B. McLean (circa 1876-1904) was a minister from Long Ridge (Stamford) and Salem, Conn. Drafts, notes, manuscript copies of sermons, probably collected by McLean. Some were probably written by him and others by his grandfather, Rev. Allen McLean of Simsbury, Conn. Click here to see the scanned paper finding aid and container list (pdf).​ ​

The Commission was chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1929 to provide portable water and sewage services on a regional basis.