30 F Below Zero: 24 January 1857 at Coffin Road

Hear is a near death experience - one of several - for the Whipple V. Phillips family.  It also mentions the Sprague family in connection to the most important Hartford, Providence and Fishkill railroad system.  Lastly, it mentions the elusive "Coffin Road".

Water froze immediately and as hard as steel and as adhesive as the worst superglue.  These are temperatures that New England just did not see. The headlines stated that it was the worst of the century.

We know that Amos and Edward Fiske took over the Tyler store in 1855, and sold to Whipple V. Phillips in 1855.  After two years, WVP moved to the Coffin Road junction, later to be called Greene Station, or just Greene, Rhode Island.  It seems that WVP was not at the Coffin Road station on 24 January 1957 for the heroic efforts of the railroad men.

But he was surely freezing in the store back in Foster, Rhode Island.