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The Brewster Homestead is a historic house at 306 Preston Road (Connecticut Route 164) in Griswold, Connecticut. Built about 1740, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the town. The house was owned by six generations of the Brewster family, and originally was the centerpiece of a farmstead of 250 acres (100 ha). [2]
The Ecclesiastical Society of Preston was first organized in 1698, with the first meetinghouse located in present-day Preston City. At the request of residents in the northern part of Preston (now the town of Griswold), the North Society was established in 1716. A splinter group, the Separate Church of Preston, was established in 1747 and ...
Hallville Mill Historic District is a historic district in the town of Preston, Connecticut, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Contributing properties in the district are 23 buildings, two other contributing structures, and one other contributing site over a 50-acre (20 ha) area. [1]
Roughly along Main St. between CT 117 and Middle Rd. and along School House and Cider Mill Rd. Preston: Poquetanuck is a populated place with a long history as a "typical small New England village" [9] 148
Preston City is a village and the original town center of the town of Preston, Connecticut, United States.The core of the village around the junction of Old Northwest Road and Route 164 is designated as the Preston City Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
The Preston Historical Society is a historical society located in Preston, Connecticut. They maintain historical records for the town and maintain historical locations, such as National Register of Historic Places listed places like the Long Society Meetinghouse [ 1 ] and Preston City Historic District.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Just north of that location the trail enters a narrow rocky constriction in a woods road. This is the place for which the area received the name Hellgate. There is Hellgate Farm on Miller Road in Preston at the end of this woods road. The other end of the woods road is on Brickyard Road, named for another historic feature of the town. [3]