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Jillson Square Park is park located in Willimantic, Connecticut. It holds the William Jillson Stone House on its area, and is home to the Willimantic Carnival. The park was created after the Windham Historical Society bought the property in 1972, and gave the area to the Town of Windham Recreation Department for park development.
A section house was used to store tools and equipment used by maintainers who were in charge of a "section" of track as their territory. This former New Haven Railroad section house was located in Willimantic, and moved to the museum site in 1992. It was restored the following year and is used by museum volunteers to store tools. [8]
The Willimantic Elks Club is a historic Elks lodge at 198 Pleasant Street in the Willimantic section of Windham, Connecticut.Built in 1925 for a lodge founded in 1914, it is one of the finest examples of Tudor Revival architecture in the region, and has been a major site of social events in the community since.
The 2nd annual " Eastern Ct Children's Book fair" is being held from 10 a. m. to 4 p.m. at Jillson Square. ... Sep. 30—WILLIMANTIC — Emphasizing the power of reading, legendary animator Walt ...
The William Jillson Stone House is a historic house museum at 561 Main Street inside Jillson Square Park, in the Willimantic section of Windham, Connecticut.Built in 1825–27, it is a rare local instance of a stone house, built by one of the area's early industrialists.
Willimantic holds a Boom Box Parade every 4 July where, instead of a marching band performing, residents bring boom boxes tuned to WILI, the local AM radio station. The tradition started on Memorial Day of 1986, when no marching band was available for a parade. [45] The parade has received national attention from the Washington Post. [46]
The Frog Bridge (officially known as the Thread City Crossing) is a bridge located in Willimantic, Connecticut, which carries South Street across the Willimantic River. Opened in September 2000, it is known as the Frog Bridge because it has four copper frog sculptures on each end of the bridge, sitting on concrete thread spools.
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