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Location. 58 North Road. East Windsor, Connecticut. Type. Railroad museum. Website. ct-trolley.org. The Connecticut Trolley Museum, also known as the Warehouse Point Trolley Museum, [1][2] is the oldest incorporated museum dedicated to electric railroading in the United States. [3] Founded in October 1940, the museum is located in East Windsor ...
83001278 [1] Added to NRHP. June 3, 1983. The Shore Line Trolley Museum is a trolley museum located in East Haven, Connecticut. Incorporated in 1945, it is the oldest continuously operating trolley museum in the United States. The museum includes exhibits on trolley history in the visitors' center and offers rides on restored trolleys along its ...
Brewster & Company was an American custom carriage and motorcar coachbuilder. James Brewster established the company in 1810 which operated for approximately 130 years. Brewster got its start in New Haven, Connecticut, and quickly gained a reputation for producing the best carriages in the country. In 1827, he set his shop at 52 Broad Street in ...
The first Mercer cars arrived in 1910. A.R. Kingston, E.T. George and C.G. Roebling were credited with the design. The Mercer was available as a speedster, toy tonneau or touring car and were powered by four-cylinder L-head Beaver engines. The T-head Raceabout was announced late in 1910 for the 1911 model year, this car was the idea of ...
85000951 [ 1] Added to NRHP. May 1, 1985. Boothe Memorial Park and Museum sits on a 32-acre (130,000 m 2) site in the Putney section of Stratford, Connecticut. Built about 1840 and remodeled in 1914, it is said to be "The Oldest Homestead in America," [ 2] since it sits on the foundations of a 1663 house, and has been continuously occupied.
Stratford Center Historic District. / 41.18611°N 73.13028°W / 41.18611; -73.13028. The Stratford Center Historic District is a 220-acre (89 ha) historic district in Stratford, Connecticut. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It then included 257 contributing buildings.
According to Stratford land records, Abraham Nichols purchased several old farms and large parcels of land in 1696. Nichols exchanged his land for 22 acres (0.089 km 2 ) of Lt. Joseph Judsons old farm which had a barn on it, 54 acres (0.22 km 2 ) or half the land owned by Jeremiah Judson, and 19 acres (0.077 km 2 ) of land from Benjamin Curtiss ...
Carini was born in Portland, Connecticut, on October 13, 1951. He is the son of Robert (Bob) Carini who owned a collision repair and auto restoration business in Glastonbury, Connecticut . [ 3 ] He eventually inherited half of the family business as a gift.