- Archives
- Historical Sources
- Libraries
- Beinecke Rare
Book/Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven CT 06520;
(203) 432-2972. This library is the repository for Yale University's
papers. The general collection includes, rare books and manuscripts,
the Yale Collection of Western Americana, and the Osborn Collection
in addition to many other resources.
- Connecticut Historical
Society Library
- Connecticut
Libraries, presented by the Connecticut State Library.
- Connecticut Libraries - Other Library Catalogs in Connecticut, presented by the Connecticut State Library.
- Connecticut
Polish American Library, presented by the Central Connecticut
State University.
- Connecticut State Library
- Godfrey Memorial Library, 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457-2534; (860) 346-4375.
- The Gunn Memorial Historical
Library and Museum, P.O. Box 1278 Washington, CT 06793; (860)
868-7756.
- Richard W.
Woolworth Library of the Stonington Historical Society, Stonington,
Connecticut. (mailing address) R.W. Woolworth Library, P.O. Box 103,
Stonington, CT 06378-0103; (860) 535-1131.
- Simsbury Genealogical and Historical Research Library, 749
Hopmeadow Street, Simsbury, Connecticut 06070; (860) 658-5382.
- Museums
- Allis-Bushnell House and Museum, 853 Boston Post Road, Madison
CT 06443; (203) 245-4567.
- Antiquarian and Landmark Society Museum, Offices & Library,
66 Forest Street, Hartford, CT 06105; (860) 247-8996.
- Barnes Museum, 85 N. Main Street, Southington CT 06489; (860)
628-5426.
- Barnum Museum,
820 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604; (203) 331-1104.
- Boothe Memorial Park and Museum, Stratford CT 06497; (203)
378-0630. An Americana Museum, the house, which was built about1840,
remodeled in 1914, is said to be "The Oldest Homestead in America,"
since it was on the foundations of the 1663 house and was continuously
occupied.
- Brookfield Museum
and Historical Society, An Extended Learning and Research
Center
165 Whisconier Rd, PO Box 5231, Brookfield, CT 06804; (203) 740-8140.
- CAMA - Connecticut Antique Machinery Association, Inc., P.O.
Box 1467, New Milford, CT 06776.
- The Captain David Judson House and the Catharine B. Mitchell Museum,
Stratford Historical Society, 967 Academy Hill, P.O. Box 382, Stratford,
CT 06497; (203) 378-0630.
- Connecticut Eastern Railroad
Museum, Willimantic, Connecticut
- Connecticut
Historical Societies and Museums, presented by the University
of Connecticut Libraries.
- Connecticut River
Museum - The "Great River" of New England - The Connecticut
River Excerpted from Edmund Delaney's The Connecticut River:
New England's Historic Waterway.
- Connecticut
State Museum of Natural History, Route 195, Storrs CT 06269;
(860) 486-4460.
- Connecticut
Town Historical Societies and Museums
- Cove Warehouse, Wethersfield, Connecticut, N Main Street at
Cove Park, Wethersfield CT 06109; (860) 529-7656. The maritime exhibit
presents Wethersfield's role in the maritime trade of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
- Danbury Museum
and Historical Society
- Day-Lewis Museum, 158 Main Street, Farmington CT 06032; 860)
678-1645.
- East Haddam Historical Society Museum, 264 Town Street, P.O.
Box 27, East Haddam C06423-0027; (860) 873-3944.
- Fairfield
Historical Society and Museum
- The Glebe House Museum
and Gertrude Jekyll Garden, PO Box 245, Woodbury, CT 06798;
(203) 263-2855.
- Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut
06371; (860) 434-5542.
- The Gunn Memorial Historical
Library and Museum, P.O. Box 1278 Washington, CT 06793; (860)
868-7756.
- Lebanon Historical Society Museum and Visitors Center, 856
Trumbull Highway, on the Historic Lebanon Green, P.O. Box 151, Lebanon
CT 06249; (860) 642.6579.
- Lock 12 Historical Park and Museum, a restored section of
the Farmington Canal (1828-1848), 487 N. Brooksvale Road, Cheshire
CT 06410; (203) 272-2743.
- Mansfield Historical Society Museum, 954 Storrs Road (Route
195), Storrs CT 06268; (860) 429-6575.
- Mark Twain House,
351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 06105; (860) 247-0998.
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum,
110 Pequot Trail, Mashantucket CT 06338; (860) 396-6800. The museum
presents the story of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and its land.
- Mattatuck Historical
Society Museum, 144 W. Main Street, Waterbury CT 06702; (203)
753-0381.
- Museum of Connecticut
History, presented by the Connecticut State Library.
- Mystic
Seaport Museum of America
- National Railway Historical
Society Museum - the Connecticut Eastern Chapter, P.O. Box
665, Bridge Street, Willimantic, CT. 06226.
- Nellie McKnight Museum, Ellington Historical Society, 70 Main
St., P.O. Box 73, Ellington, CT 06029.
- Old Lighthouse
Museum, the Stonington Historical Society, Inc., P.O. Box
103, Stonington, CT 06378; (860) 535-1440.
- Old State House Museum, 800 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103;
(860) 522-6766.
- Peabody Museum of
Natural History - Yale University
- The Peters
Railroad Museum, Wallingford, Connecticut.
- Phelps Tavern Museum and Homestead, 800 Hopmeadow Street,
Simsbury, CT 06070; (860) 658-2500.
- The Thomas Griswold
House Museum, Guilford, Connecticut.
- The Unionville Museum, 15 School Street, Unionville, CT 06085;
(860) 673-2231.
- Vernon Historical Society
Museum and Library, 734 Hartford Turnpike, Route 30, Vernon,
CT 06066; (mailing address) P.O. Box 2055, Vernon, CT 06066; (860)
875-4326.
- The Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103; (860)
278-2670.
- Waterford Historical Society Colonial Village, Jordan Green,
Route 156, Waterford CT 06385.
- Webb Deane Stevens Museum, 211 Main Street, Wethersfield,
CT 06109; (860) 529-0612.
- West Hartford Historical
Society and Noah Webster House Museum, 227 South Main Street,
West Hartford, CT 06107; (860)521-5362.
- Windham Textile and History Museum, 157 Union-Main Street,
Willimantic, CT 06226; (860) 456-2178.
- Other
- 1895 U.S. Atlas
- Connecticut
- Civil War
Monuments of Connecticut, presented by the Connecticut
Historical Society, A Museum, Library, and Education Center.
- The Connecticut
Gravestone Network
-
Connecticut's Freshwater Wetlands, by Stephen P. Broker; site
presented by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. (Limestone/"marble"
quarry mentioned on the site.) In this article there is a large limestone
or "marble" quarry mentioned that is located in Robbins Swamp in the
northern Limestone Valley of Connecticut. The quarry is reportedly
visible west of the swamp.
- Cyndi's List - Online
Research Resources - Connecticut
- Essex Connecticut - The Walking Map of
Essex, Connecticut - A Joint Project of Connecticut River
Museum and Essex Historical Society.
- The Face of
Connecticut - People, Geology, and the Land, Bulletin
110, by Michael Bell, State Geological and Natural History Survey
of Connecticut, 1985, presented by Talcott Mountain
Science Center.
- Mining the Valley starts on page 31 and discusses the
Connecticut Brownstone and Trap Rock industries.
- Geology
at Talcott Mountain Science Center. The web site includes
a photograph of Talcott Mountain's Holyoke Basalt.
- Northwest Connecticut Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Repositories of Primary Sources - Connecticut, University
of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.
- Scenic
Byways – Connecticut, presented by the National Scenic Byways Program.
- State
of Connecticut - National Register of Historic Places
- WPA
Life Histories from Connecticut
- Yale Peabody Museum:
GNIS - Connecticut (Search the USGS Geographic Names Database.)
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