The Norwalk Seaport Association’s Friends of the Norwalk Islands offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to Sheffield Island...
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In the summer of 1882, American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir boarded a train from New York bound for his modest farm among rolling hills in ...
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Our History:
FOUNDED IN 1856 by citizens interested in preserving the history of their families, town and region, the Litchfield Historical Societ...
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In 1819, Walt Whitman, widely recognized as America's greatest poet, was born in a small farmhouse in the rural Long Island community of Wes...
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History of Bush-Holley HouseFor over two and a half centuries, this colonial saltbox has stood at the intersection of a mill pond and river flowing...
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A native of Manhattan, Theodore Roosevelt first came to Oyster Bay, Long Island on summer vacations with his family in the 1870s. The teenage boy g...
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The familiar Farmington River Valley landmark of Heublein Tower sits atop Talcott Mountain, a long, precipitous wooded ledge named after the Talcot...
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The presence of copper ore here was noted in 1705 and the site became one of the first commercial mines in the British Colonies. It was not a money...
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Andre Monument marks the site where the British spy was hanged and buried in 1780 during the American Revolution. It is a large granite monument ...
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Wilderstein is an independent not-for-profit historic site located in Rhinebeck, New York. Our mission is to enrich people's lives by providing a r...
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J.A. Skinner State Park is home to more than 400 acres of forest on Mt. Holyoke, as well as the historic Mt. Holyoke Summit House. The park is loca...
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"The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a unive...
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Clermont State Historic Site was the Hudson River seat of New York's politically and socially prominent Livingston Family. Seven successive generat...
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History:The history of the City of Paterson includes its beginnings as the ambitious project of Hamilton and the Society for Establishing Useful Ma...
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Cascading streams, waterfalls and flowering shrubs abound in Pittsfield State Forest. 65 acres of wild azalea fields are a profusion of pink blosso...
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About Us:
Olana State Historic Site, the home and studio of eminent Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church, is a historic site administ...
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Our MuseumOld Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, depicts a rural New England town of the 1830s. You are invit...
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Wells State Park is a popular 1,400-acre woodland park. The two principal activities are camping and hiking. The campground has 60 attractive sites...
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Thomas Edison's home and laboratory are a step back in time, when machines were run by belts and pulleys and music was played on phonographs. Whe...
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