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CTMQ > Guilford

Hyland House Museum

May 23, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Guilford, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

Medad Stone Tavern Museum

March 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

"But What About Me, Dad?" Guilford (Google Maps location) June 11, 2016 For whatever reason I've always thought in my head that the guy's name was Stone Medad. And I always thought that was funny. Now, as I begin writing about my visit to the museum with my son Damian and notice the guy's name was actually Medad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Guilford, guilford keeping society, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

RWA: Genesee Trails

March 23, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

I Gen eh See How It Is Genesee Trails, Guilford & Madison January 2021 All Regional Water Authority (RWA) properties require a purchased permit to access. Hot on the heels of my very first RWA hike down the coast at Maltby Lakes, I was all jazzed up for a dawn hike here, at the Genesee Property. I'd learned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post Tagged With: Guilford, Madison, New Haven County, privately owned trail, RWA Trails

CTMQ’s Guide to Guilford

December 19, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

Everything Guilford I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Guilford CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CTMQ Town Guides, New Post Tagged With: Guilford, New Haven County

Guilford’s Town Trails

December 19, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Guilford's Town Trails Guilford isn't a large town, but it does have a lot of trailed properties. It's another one of our towns where it seems like the town owned land bleeds into state owned land which surrounds land trust land. This used to bother me from a list-making perspective, but now I've come to really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Guilford, New Haven County

Cockaponset State Forest Intro

November 20, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Cockaponset State Forest Haddam, Chester, Deep River, Killingworth, Durham, Guilford, Madison, Clinton, Westbrook, Middletown & Middlefield I listed all the towns above not because there are worth CTMQ things do within the Cockaponset in each, but just to make the point that this is a disjointed and sprawling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Chester, Clinton, cockaponset state forest, Deep River, Durham, Guilford, Haddam, killingworth, Madison, Middlesex County, westbrook

237. Henry Whitfield State Museum

September 23, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Stone Cold Cool Guilford (Google Maps location) September 8, 2012 The state of Connecticut operates fewer museums than you’d think. There really are just a handful, and many of them rely on partnerships with volunteers (Old New-Gate Prison in East Granby) and/or local historical societies (Prudence Crandall House … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Guilford, historic house museums, Historic Houses, National Historic Landmarks, New Haven County

NHL: Henry Whitfield House

February 12, 2018 by Steve 1 Comment

CT National Historic Landmark Henry Whitfield House 248 Old Whitfield Street, Guilford You’re darn tootin’ this is a National Historic Landmark! One of the best, in fact... not just in Connecticut, but in the entire country. Not just because it has housed an excellent museum (since 1899!), but because it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff", Superlatives Tagged With: Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Guilford, historic house museums, Historic Houses, National Historic Landmarks, New Haven County

238. Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum

February 11, 2018 by Steve Leave a Comment

It Just Dawned on Me... Guilford (Google Maps location) September 8, 2012 At the time of my visit to this little one-man-show museum, I am fairly certain it was a standalone operation that just happened to be located at another museum - The Dudley Farm Museum. These days (2018 and beyond) it certainly still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Guilford, native american history, New Haven County

Andrew Leete House

January 25, 2018 by Steve 1 Comment

L337 H4x0r Andrew Leete House, Guilford September 2012 Now, normally this wouldn't rate enough for CTMQ. But - and this is a big but because I'm not totally sure of the history here - but, when this house is taken with several other sites around Connecticut, it makes sense to be here. That and I drove by once … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Guilford, Historic Houses, New Haven County, Yale

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