Saturday, March 7, 2026 – 10AM – 12:30PM -Plymouth Maple Festival on the Plymouth Green, 10 Park Street, Plymouth. Watch maple syrup boiling over an outdoor fire, learn how to make syrup at home, try old-fashioned sugar on snow, drizzle local maple syrup on delicious foods in the Congregational Church, watch the sap drip out of a sugar maple, listen to the fiddle tunes of Down Home Frolic, visit the secret passageways of the Underground Railroad (reservations required by emailing plymouthct.history@gmail.com) and explore the historic village of Plymouth Center on a scavenger hunt, with maple candy as a prize! Call or text 860-921-6118 for more information.

Saturday, March 17, 2026, 10:30AM – Civics & Conversation – A 4-week series that explores the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Attend all sessions and receive a commemorative gift. Terryville Library, 238 Main Street, Terryville. Free admission

Wednesday, April 7, 7PM – Dinner and a Movie! Join us for a weekly community Watch Party of Ken Burns’ acclaimed documentary series “The American Revolution”. Each Wednesday at 7PM, on April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 13 and 20, we will gather to view one episode and take part in a guided discussion afterward. It’s in the Stoughton Building at the First Congregational Church of Plymouth. Space is limited, so please let us know you’re coming here: https://forms.gle/XkVZFo7jQY1Y7yJy7

Free admission. Also there is an open invitation to attend the regular Wednesday supper at the church at 6PM.

Saturday, April 11 – 10:30AM – Time Will Tell: Plymouth’s Clock Making History with Tom Vaughn. Terryville Library, 238 Main St., Terryville. Free admission

Friday, April 17, 2026 – Family Movie Night: National Treasure – PG-rated adventure film starring Nicholas Cage as a historian racing to uncover a hidden treasure tied to America’s founding. Terryville High School Auditorium, 33 North Harwinton Avenue, Terryville, CT 06786. Attendees will receive clue sheets to Plymouth’s Revolutionary Treasure Hunt! The Hunt takes place on the historic Plymouth Green. The clues are on the Green and the hunt can take place whenever you want. Fun for everyone! Free admission

Saturday, May 16 – 10AM – 3PM – Olde Plymouth Village Day – Revolutionary War reenactors, live colonial music, demonstrations of colonial skills and crafts, tours of the Burying Ground. More information coming soon. Plymouth Green, 10 Park Street, Plymouth. Free admission.

The Plymouth 225th Anniversary mural is on the side of the Lee Hardware Building at 171 Main Street, Terryville.

Click here for a description of the images on the mural – take the kids and find the 10 hidden keyholes! How many kinds of animals can you find? There are more than 20!

PASSPORT TO PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE!

The Passport includes maps, addresses, descriptions, and photos of 20 historic sites in Plymouth. At each location, adventurers will answer questions in the Passport that can be obtained by looking for information at that place. It’s a town wide scavenger hunt!

Copies of the Passport can be picked up at Antiques at the Green, 703 Main Street, Plymouth, 860-283-0689. Store hours are 10am – 5pm , Thursday through Sunday.

Passports are also available at the Terryville Library, 238 Main Street, 860-582-3121.

After you visit all the sites, you can get your Passport officially stamped at the Terryville Library.

THE DIGITAL VERSION of the PASSPORTS ARE AVAILABLE BELOW:

The Passport to Plymouth was funded by a $1,400 grant from the Betts Family Fund and Bristol Brass General Grant Fund of the Main Street Community Foundation.

WALKING TOUR OF HISTORIC TERRYVILLE brochure

To celebrate Plymouth’s 225th Anniversary in 2020, the Beautification Committee obtained a generous grant from the Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation to pay for a new publication, “A Walking Tour of Historic Terryville”. The brochures are available for free in a plastic box outside the Lock Museum of America (230 Main Street, Terryville), at the Terryville Library (238 Main Street, Terryville), and at Antiques at the Green ( 703 Main Street, Plymouth Center). Pick up a copy and stroll around historic downtown Terryville!

Digital version of the Walking Tour of Historic Terryville brochure. It is formatted to print on 12″ x 18″ paper.

With these self-guided tours, you will learn little known stories about our town’s fascinating history.

WALKING TOUR OF PLYMOUTH CENTER brochure

Copies can be picked up at Antiques at the Green, 703 Main Street, Plymouth, 860-283-0689. Store hours are 10am – 5pm , Thursday through Sunday.

They are also available at the Terryville Library, 238 Main Street, 860-582-3121.

Click here for a link to the brochure: walking tour 6-27 low res

The tour includes the Plymouth Burying Ground which dates to 1747. There are 38 soldiers from the Revolutionary War buried here. Learn about the symbolism of colonial gravestones.   Look for some ancestors!
Find the stone that is inscribed “MORTALS ATTEND and LEARN YOUR END”. Creepy!
Go on a scavenger hunt of Plymouth Center!  SCAVENGER HUNT on the Plymouth Green

GUIDED WALKING TOURS of the Plymouth Burying Ground and the Underground Railroad

The tour includes the Burying Ground, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Henry Terry House, a stop on the Underground Railroad. The owner will show you the hidden passageway in the cellar used by escaping slaves seeking their freedom.

The inscriptions and symbols on the gravestones provide clues to what life was like in colonial Connecticut.  Learn about the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the little known story of the Tories, the American colonists who were loyal to their mother country of England.

Seniors, youth groups, school classes, home schoolers, and historical organizations have  enjoyed our tours.