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Friday, September 22, 7:30PM. Following our Annual Meeting reports Connecticut State Archaeologist Sarah Sportman will be presenting, “The Farmington Mastodon: Connecticut at the End of the Last Ice Age”.
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Sunday, October 15, 1:00 p.m. (Rain date, October 22, 1:00 p.m.) – Tour of the Old Mansfield Center Cemetery led by local historian Bruce Clouette. This is a TLGV Walktober event.
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Sponsored by the Columbia Historical Society. September 30, 2023, 4-6PM (rain date, October 1) 124 Hunt Road Columbia
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Friday November 10th at 7PM. Town Council Chambers, Mansfield Town Hall. Vernon Historical Society’s Museum Director Jean Luddy will be presenting a program titled “Rockville’s Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life.”
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Watch a recorded video of this ZOOM program from November 18, 2022 as presented by Bruce Clouette.
Continue reading “The Mills of Mansfield Hollow”
We had an exceptionally beautiful morning for our tour of the Gurley Cemetery on Bonemill Road given by Micheal Carroll. A large number of folks came out to learn more about the recent rehabilitation and cleaning of existing and missing grave markers in the older section of the cemetery.
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We are ringing in the New Year with some great news! We have been awarded an $8,400 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant (CTCFOSG). We were one of 624 organizations in Connecticut that were awarded CT Cultural Fund support totaling $16M from CT Humanities (CTH). The CTCFOSGs are part of $30.7M of support allocated to arts, humanities, and cultural nonprofits through CTH over the next two years by the CT General Assembly and approved by Governor Ned Lamont.
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Thousands of years before Europeans arrived, Mansfield, like every town in northeastern Connecticut, was inhabited by Indigenous people. The oral traditions preserved by their descendants tell of their occupying the land from time immemorial, and evidence assembled by archaeological investigations confirms those traditions.
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POST #42 Chaffee House and Barn Chaffeeville
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POST #41 The Silkmills in Chaffeville
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POST # 40 THE SILK MILLS IN ATWOODVILLE
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POST # 39 – HENRY BROWN HOUSE, CHESTNUT HILL
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POST # 38 – Boaz Stearns House, Chestnut Hill
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POST # 37 – EAGLEVILLE TRAIN DEPOT, STORE AND POST OFFICE
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POST # 36 – THE EAGLEVILLE MILL
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POST # 35 – THE MILLS AT THE RAVINE
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POST # 34 – HILLSIDE HALL, MANSFIELD DEPOT
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POST # 33 – THE MANSFIELD ORGAN PIPE WORKS, MANSFIELD DEPOT
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POST # 32 – MANSFIELD DEPOT, TRAIN STATION
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POST # 31 – THE WILLIAM J. HERNBERG HOUSE, MANSFIELD DEPOT
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POST # 30: MERROW TRAIN DEPOT AND GENERAL STORE:
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POST # 29: STOCKINET MILL, MERROW.
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POST # 28: THE GURLEY-MASON MILL, MANSFIELD FOUR CORNERS.
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