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 […]
Category: History and Other Old Things
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, […]
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (and Twain’s next door neighbor), Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in this house for over twenty years. […]
Museum of Connecticut History
MUSEUM OF CT HISTORY With a massive display of early Colt firearms and other amazing historical treasures, this museum, located in the Connecticut State Library, […]
Ancient Burying Ground
ANCIENT BURYING GROUND The ABG is the oldest historic site in Hartford. How old? 1640 old. Still another 130 years of being a British colony […]