Museum Opening Day
June 5, 2022. 1:30PM – 4:30PM. Mansfield Historical Society Museum
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MHS Awarded Two Grants
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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Indigenous People of Mansfield, Connecticut
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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