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The University of Connecticut


Laboratory for Leisure, Tourism & Sport


TOP 100 HERITAGE TOURISM DESTINATIONS
OF CONNECTICUT



Data researched and compiled by Scott Wherley, Consultant, Laboratory for Leisure, Tourism & Sport,
 in collaboration with Tourism Districts. 






Copyright © 1998 by A. Yiannakis






REGION 1
COASTAL FAIRFIELD (203)854-7825



  •  Bates-Scofield House (c.1736) 

  •   Boothe Memorial Park & Museum 

  •   Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (c.1864) 

  •   Putnam Cottage (c.1692) 

  •   Sheffield Island Lighthouse 

  •   Weir Farm National Historic Site 

  •   Wilton Heritage Museum Art Gallery 

  •   Bruce Museum 

  •   Housatonic Museum of Art 

  •   The Barnum Museum 
 
    

    

     REGION 2
 HOUSATONIC VALLEY (800)841-4488
 
    

  •  Brookfield Historical Society & Museum

  •  Charles Ives Birthplace

  •  Cyrenius H. Booth Library

  •  Danbury Scott-Fanton Museum

  •  Keeler Tavern Museum

  •  Lonetown Farm Museum

  •  Mark Twain Library

  •  Mather Curtiss House

  •  Putnam Memorial State Park

  •  Old Sail and Pre-Revolutionary Cemetery

    

    

     REGION 3
 WATERBURY (203) 597-9527
    


  •  Mattatuck Museum

  •  Seven Angels Theatre

  •  Southford Falls

  •  Black Rock State Park

  •  Benedict-Miller House

  •  Railroad Museum of New England

  •  Flanders Nature Center

  •  1869 Waterbury Clock Tower

  •  Watertown Historical Society Museum

  •  Greater Waterbury Arts Resource Council Gallery

    

    

     REGION 4
 LITCHFIELD HILLS  (860)567-4506
    
 

  •   Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden 

  •   Bulls Bridge 

  •   Gay-Hoyt House Museum 

  •   Gaylordsville Historical Society 

  •   Glebe House & Gertrude Jeckyll Garden 

  •   Holley House Museum 

  •   Hotchkiss-Fyler House  

  •   Merwinsville Hotel 

  •   New Milford Historical Society Museum 

  •   Solomon Rockwell House 

  •   West Cornwall Covered Bridge 

    

    

     REGION 5
 NORTH CENTRAL    (860)763-2578

    

  •   Shaker Museum

  •   Luddy-Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum

  •   Noden-Reed Park Museum

  •   New England Air Museum

  •   Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine

  •   Lt. Walter Fyler House

  •   Martha A. Parsons House

  •   Salmon Brook Settlement

  •   Connecticut Trolley Museum

  •   Connecticut Fire Museum
 
    

    

     REGION 6
 GREATER HARTFORD (800) 793-4480
 
    

  •   Mark Twain House

  •   Harriet Beecher Stowe House

  •   Old State House

  •   Hill-Stead Museum

  •   Capitol

  •   Wadsworth Athenaeum

  •   Bushnell Park

  •   Elizabeth Park

  •   Old Wethersfield

  •   Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry

    

    

     REGION 7
 NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT (860) 258-4355
 
    

  •   New England Center for Contemporary Art 

  •   Benton Museum, University of Connecticut

  •   Putnam Elms 

  •   Prudence Crandall Museum 

  •   Chaplin Museum

  •   Nathan Hale Homestead 

  •   Jonathan Trumbull House 

  •   Revolutionary War Office 

  •   Connecticut State Museum of Natural History 

  •   Brayton Grist Mill & Marcy Blacksmith Museum 

  •   Windham Textile and History Museum 
 
    

    

     REGION  8
 MYSTIC & MORE (203) 444-2206
 
    

  •   Blue Slope Country Museum

  •   Ebenezer Avery House

  •   Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park

  •   Marcus Gallery of Contemporary Art

  •   Noank Historical Society Museum

  •   John Bishop House and Museum

  •   Mystic Seaport

  •   Shaw-Perkins Mansion

  •   Florence Griswold Museum

  •   Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House

  •   Old Lighthouse Museum

  •   Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

  •   Slater Museum

     

    

     REGION 9
 RIVER VALLEY & SHORELINE  
(860) 247-0028
    


  •   Allis-Bushnell House and Museum (c.1785) 

  •   Amasa Day House (c.1816) 

  •   Deacon John Grave House (c.1685) 

  •   General Mansfield House 

  •   General William Hart House (c.1767) 

  •   Henry Whitfield State Museum 

  •   Hyland House (c.1660) 

  •   Nathan Hale Schoolhouse 

  •   Pratt House (c.1732) 

  •   Solomon Goffe House (c.1711) 

  •   Stanton House (c.1790) 

  •   Thomas Griswold House (c.1774) 
 
    

    

     REGION 10
 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT (860) 225-3901

    

  •   New Britain Museum of American Art

  •   Lock 12 Historical Park/Farmington Canal Linear Park

  •   Barker Animation Art Gallery and Character, Comic Cartoon Museum

  •   Plainville Historic Center

  •   Barnes Museum

  •   New Britain Industrial Museum

  •   Southington Historical Center

  •   Lock 12 Historical Park 

    

    

     REGION 11
 NEW HAVEN (203) 777-8550

    

  •   Amistad Memorial 

  •   Ethnic Heritage Center 

  •   Gen. David Humphreys House 

  •   Black Rock Fort and Fort Nathan Hale

  •   Hotchkiss Farmhouse 

  •   Jonathan Dickerman House 

  •   Milford Historical Society 

  •   Osborne Homestead Museum 

  •   Pardee Morris House

  •   The Thomas Darling House 

  •   Yale University (Woolsey Hall)

  •   Fifteen Local Historical Societies

    

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