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The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is a non-profit museum, library, archive and education center that is open to the public. It houses a research center containing 270,000 artifacts and graphics and over 100,000 books and pamphlets. [2] It holds one of the largest costume and textile collections in New England. [3]
The house was remodeled in 1868 and opened to the public in 1899 as the first museum of the State of Connecticut, the Henry Whitfield State Museum. The house was restored in 1902–04 and in the 1930s and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. [2] It was named a State Archeological Preserve in 2006. [4] [6]
The museum stewards and preserves a large scope of natural history and archaeological collections from Connecticut and beyond. The natural history collections comprise more than 6,000 objects such as fossils, minerals, shells, and taxidermied insects, birds, and mammals, including the “Pope Mastodon," excavated in 1913 and one of the largest ...
Connecticut State Library. / 41.762316; -72.683143. The Connecticut State Library is the state library for the U.S. state of Connecticut and is also an executive branch agency of the state. It is located in Hartford, Connecticut directly across the street from the Connecticut State Capitol. The State Library provides a variety of library ...
Bush–Holley House. Greenwich. Fairfield. Historic house. This former boarding house, now run by the Greenwich Historical Society, was once used by artists in the Cos Cob Art Colony, holds examples of their work and regularly offers exhibits on art and local history. Burnham–Hibbard House. Hampton.
Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 27, 1890) was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, [ 1] which became the first school for black girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States. In 1832, when Crandall admitted Sarah Harris, a 20 ...
History of Connecticut. The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English ...
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