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This was followed by the Wolf Rock property, the Ashford Oak and others, including in 1978 the historic Gurleyville Gristmill and miller's cottage, [12] birthplace of Wilbur Cross, the 56th governor of Connecticut. Many of these early trust properties now abut other conserved lands, significantly increasing the size of the protected habitat.
Quasset Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southeastern part of the town of Woodstock in Windham County, Connecticut, United States, surrounding a lake of the same name. [3] (Federal topographic maps use the name "Wappaquasset Pond". [4]) It is bordered to the east by South Woodstock.
Woodstock Academy, a "New England Academy" which is a corporate school (there are two others in the State; Norwich Free Academy and The Gilbert School) and is governed by a 30-member Board of Trustees, is located in Woodstock. Founded in 1801 as a New England Academy, Woodstock Academy briefly closed twice in the 19th century, and the second ...
The Matthew Bowen Homestead, also once known as the Plaine Hill Farm, is a historic house at 94 Plaine Hill Road in Woodstock, Connecticut. It is now the Inn at Woodstock. Built in 1816, it is a prominent and well-preserved example of a Federal period farmstead, with a long history of association with the locally prominent Bowen family.
New Canaan Land Trust: New Canaan: Fairfield Website: Northern Connecticut Land Trust: Somers: Tolland website: Roxbury Land Trust: Roxbury: Litchfield website, includes Mine Hills Preserve: Waterford Land Trust: Waterford: New London website: Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy: Kent: Litchfield Regional website: Wintonbury Land Trust ...
Woodstock was settled in 1686 by English colonists from Roxbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was known as New Roxbury until 1690, when it was incorporated as Woodstock. The early settlers occupied the ridge along which Plain Ridge Road now runs, and the area now occupied by the green, Congregational church, and adjacent cemetery were ...
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The New Roxbury Ironworks Site is a historic industrial archaeological site in Woodstock, Connecticut. It is the site of a colonial-era iron foundry, established about 1760 in the vicinity of Black Pond. It was built to process iron ore that had been found by area settlers. The area was also later the site of grist and saw mills. [2]