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Boothe Memorial Park and Museum: Stratford: Fairfield: Open-air: The museum's collection of buildings includes a carriage house, Americana Museum, miniature lighthouse and windmill, a clocktower museum, trolley station, chapel, and blacksmith shop. The park also has the last remaining highway toll booth in Connecticut from the Merritt Parkway.
Roxbury Center is the central village of Roxbury, Connecticut. Centered at the junction of Connecticut Routes 67 and 317 , it has been the center of town civic life since the mid-18th century. The village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Roxbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 2,260 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The town is located 65 miles (105 km) northeast of New York City , and is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region .
SAILS was founded in 1995 to link the ABLE and SEAL library networks, which were later dissolved into SAILS in 2000. [3] The network provides library patrons with access to check out and return items at member libraries, [ 4 ] interlibrary loans through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners ' Commonwealth Catalog, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] mobile ...
Permanent exhibits include "Making Connecticut", about the history of Connecticut, [1] and "Inn & Tavern Signs". [25] There are also galleries for temporary exhibitions. Recent exhibit topics include the American School for the Deaf, women and needlework, [26] the Kellogg brothers lithography firm, women's basketball, [27] the Amistad, [28] a history of cleanliness, [29] the Civil War [30] and ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Thompson Museum at the Ellen Larned Memorial Building. The organizational headquarters is the building once known as the Thompson Library, built in 1902. In 1995, the town of Thompson leased the old town library on Thompson Hill to the Thompson Historical Society. The building was named the Ellen Larned Memorial Building, after historian and ...
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.