Historic Sites
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Canton Historical Museum Collinsville, Connecticut
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At its peak 100 plows a day were manufactured by the company. In 1924 the building was... |
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Chester Historical Society Chester, Connecticut
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The Chester Historical Society was founded in 1970. In keeping with its mission, the... |
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Connecticut Firemen's Museum Manchester, Connecticut
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Located in the heart of the Cheney National Historic District, The Fire Museum is housed... |
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Connecticut State Library & Supreme Court Building Hartford, Connecticut
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The library and court building became an important repository of local and state archival... |
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Custom House Maritime Museum New London, Connecticut
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NLMS was formed in 1983 by a group of concerned citizens looking to save New London's "... |
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Darien Historical Society Darien, Connecticut
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The society operates the Bates-Scofield Homestead, an eighteenth century house-museum... |
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Derby Historical Society & Humphreys House Ansonia, Connecticut
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More than just a wonderful interactive tool for educating the region's children, the... |
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Essex Historical Society Essex, Connecticut
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Initially, Hill's Academy served as the main focus of the society for it was both a... |
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Gov. Jonathan Trumbull House Lebanon, Connecticut
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Governor Jonathan Trumbull's house is unusual in having the only central chimney with a... |
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Guilford Keeping Society Guilford, Connecticut
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Along with the buildings, we maintain an extensive collection of Guilford historic... |
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Haddam Historical Society Haddam, Connecticut
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The society operates the Thankful Arnold House Museum and the Wilhelmina Ann Arnold... |
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Historical Society Of The Town Of Greenwich Cos Cob, Connecticut
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The grounds and gardens have been restored to their appearance during the Cos Cob... |
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Hunt Hill Farm Trust New Milford, Connecticut
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The trust is devoted to protecting this piece of New England agricultural history - the... |
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Kent Historical Society Kent, Connecticut
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The Swift House has recently become the focus of town wide attention. Owned by the Town... |
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Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum Norwalk, Connecticut
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Lockwood's financial reversals in 1869 and his untimely death in 1872 resulted in the... |
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Manchester Historical Society & Old Manchester Museum Manchester, Connecticut
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The society manages The History Center, 175 Pine Street, site of our administrative... |
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Mystic River Historical Society Mystic, Connecticut
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The society maintains a part-time archival and curatorial staff available to assist... |
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New Canaan Historical Society & Museums New Canaan, Connecticut
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Fulfilling its mission, the society brings together the historical artifacts, events, and... |
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New Haven Museum And Historical Society New Haven, Connecticut
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The New Haven Colony Historical Society was founded in 1862 by a group of citizens... |
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Norfolk Historical Society & Museum Norfolk, Connecticut
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The museum is housed in the old Norfolk Academy, built in 1840, later used as the Town... |
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Norwalk Historical Society & Mill Hill Museum Norwalk, Connecticut
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The Mill Hill complex consists of three historical buildings and a cemetery. Through the... |
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Old Statehouse, Hartford Hartford, Connecticut
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The Hartford Convention of 1814, one the earliest debates on the sovereignty of states... |
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Phelps Tavern Museum Simsbury, Connecticut
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The mission of the society is to promote an appreciation of the history of Simsbury, its... |
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Ridgefield Historical Society Ridgefield, Connecticut
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The headquarters also features a reception and reference room, where the public can... |
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Rocky Hill Historical Society & Museum Rocky Hill, Connecticut
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The Rocky Hill Historical Society's current mission is to continue to preserve Academy... |
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Sharon Historical Society & Museum Sharon, Connecticut
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The Sharon Historical Society has an institutional history similar to many small... |
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Shelton Historical Society Shelton, Connecticut
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The early 19th-century Brownson House is an example of late-Federal/early Greek Revival... |
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Stamford Historical Society Stamford, Connecticut
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The Stamford Historical Society was founded in 1901. Like most historical societies,... |
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Stanley Whitman House Farmington, Connecticut
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The Stanley-Whitman House dates from 1720 but incorporates earlier features typical of... |
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Torrington Historical Society & Hotchkiss Fyler House Museum Torrington, Connecticut
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When Torrington resident Orsamus R. Fyler (1840-1909) commissioned a new home in 1897, he... |
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Webb Deane Stevens Museum Wethersfield, Connecticut
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The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, owned and managed by the National Society of the Colonial... |
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Weston Historical Society Weston, Connecticut
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The Weston Historical Society was formed in 1961. It already held a substantial backlog... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
