Open House on Saturday, June 10, 2023

Theme: Plymouth’s First Responders – Service to Community and Country

The Historical Society will be open with a fascinating display of items reflecting Plymouth’s residents who devoted their lives to our community and country. There will be rarely seen photographs and memorabilia such as vintage uniforms of volunteer firefighters.

If you have images or items that fit with this theme, please contact us.

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?

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 AVAILABLE

Guided walking tours of Plymouth Center can be arranged for your group.  The tour includes the Burying Ground, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The inscriptions and symbols on the gravestones provide a timeline of early American history, giving us 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. The tour is a wonderful supplement to Connecticut’s social studies curriculum which covers colonial America and the Revolutionary War.

There is a $10 suggested donation for adults, kids are $5. Minimum total is $50. All funds are used to restore the Burying Ground.

Call 860-921-6118 for more information.

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