Harriet Beecher Stowe House
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER GIFT SHOP Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (and Twain’s next door neighbor), Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in this house for over […]
Category: History and Other Old Things
Zion Hill Cemetery
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Sigourney Square Park
SIGOURNEY SQUARE PARK Sigourney Square (1895) is a square block that was conceived with a simple “X” walk pattern connecting its four corners and was […]
A. Everett Austin House
a. everett austin house It isn’t fake. It’s real, and it’s spectacular. The largest object in the Wadsworth’s collection is the former West End home […]
Slipaway River Boat Tours
SLIPAWAY RIVER TOURS Get away from it all on this hour long cruise down the Connecticut River. You can see all the wildlife, bring your […]
Bushnell Park Carousel
BUSHNELL PARK CAROUSEL It’s not every city that has a fully restored wooden carousel circa 1914 with 36 hand carved jumper horses, 12 stationary horses, […]
Connecticut History Illustrated
CONNECTICUT HISTORY ILLUSTRATED Connecticut History Illustrated provides access to over 50,000 Connecticut related photographs, drawings, and prints. Get ready to lose yourself for hours on […]
Connecticut Historical Society
CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHS houses a genealogy research center, a library, and a museum where you can walk a really interesting timeline of Connecticut history. […]
Connecticut Old State House
CONNECTICUT’S OLD STATE HOUSE It was the site of the Amistad Trials, sits on the site of the first witch-hanging in America (55 years before […]
Mark Twain House
mark twain house & museum Mark Twain lived here for almost twenty years and some of his best-known works, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, […]