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CTMQ > Military History

Putnam Memorial State Park Visitor’s Center

April 24, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Put 'Er Here Redding September 2017 This page may be a little confusing for you. It sure is for me. For you see, Putnam Memorial State Park has a museum: The Putnam Memorial State Park Museum as well as this place, The Putnam Memorial State Park Visitor's Center which, by almost any measure, is also a museum. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Fairfield County, Military History, putnam memorial state park, Redding

National Iwo Jima Memorial

February 1, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Oorah! National Iwo Jima Memorial, Newington & New Britain We all have "those things" that we live near that we just never check out. Be it a museum or a hike or restaurant or whatever. I think the unconscious thinking is, "I live nearby, so it's easy to get to, so I'll make the effort someday." The National … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art, Superlatives Tagged With: Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hartford County, Military History, Monuments and Plaques, New Britain, Newington

US Coast Guard Museum

December 1, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

No Coasting for Me New London, (Google Maps location) May 2018 Assuming the long-delayed, much debated National Coast Guard Museum will open someday up the road in New London, I'll go ahead and guess this smaller, obviously older museum will close. That's a bit of a bummer, because I rather like this plucky little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Military History, New London, New London County, US Coast Guard

Military Historians Museum (Closed)

September 8, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

They Lost The Battle and the War Westbrook, (Google Maps location) September 2022 The Military Historians Museum closed in January 2018. Very early on in this whole CTMQ thing I do... way back when the focus really was just museums... I "visited" some recently closed museums. This was back in 2009 or so. It was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Middlesex County, Military History, westbrook

Edward V. Sabotka Civil War Museum

August 17, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

It's All About the Union Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sabotka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. But I've given this page a brilliant title; it's a reference to The Wire … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Hartford County, Military History, Windsor Locks

Memorial Hall Museum

August 17, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Thanks For The Memories Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sobatka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. Memorial Hall is a striking building, right in the center of Windsor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Hartford County, Military History, Rarely Open, Windsor Locks

The Museum of Fife and Drum

July 7, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

I'm a Yankee Doodle Ding-Dong Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum... Come to the Museum of Fife and Drum. So I did on Connecticut Open House Day 2016. I knew that one of the oldest, and supposedly the largest, musters occurs each year in Deep River, right next door to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Deep River, Middlesex County, Military History

Bristol Memorial Military Museum

March 14, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Not Worth the Battle Bristol (Google Maps location) June 11, 2016 If you've happened to have read my page on the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame, you may remember I hinted at the fact that the wing of the building that the Bristol Historical Society Museum inhabits elsewhere was dark and effectively closed. I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Bristol, bristol historical society, Hartford County, Military History

Salisbury Cannon Museum (Closed)

March 9, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Adding to the Canon Salisbury When I began this website in 2006, the Salisbury Cannon Museum's website was exactly the same as it is in 2022. The same pictures, the same URL, and the same note that it is "currently closed." I don't know about you, but "currently closed" offers hope that it will reopen someday. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Industrial History, Litchfield County, Military History, Salisbury

263. Military Museum of Southern New England (RIP)

July 13, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Awww, Shoot! Danbury (RIP) May 24, 2014 Almost exactly one year before my family visited the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, its founder was shot and killed by police at his Ridgefield home. About a year after our visit, the museum's name was changed to The U.S. Military Museum. And three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Damian, Danbury, Fairfield County, Hoang, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Military History

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