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March 2019
Join us on Saturday, March 23 at 10 AM for a special program on trains. Our Hands-On-History Learning Center will be transformed with model railroads and train-oriented play tables. Bob Bell in costume as the [...]
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Just starting out? Hit a brick wall? Let's try to knock it down together! Want access to Ancestry.com and other genealogy databases? We have access to Ancestry’s international databases with our World Explorer account, as [...]
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Please join us on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 11 a.m. when Windsor Historical Society member and retired high school history teacher Herbert C. Hallas talks about his recently-published A History of Windsor 1944-1962: As [...]
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Think you know everything? Test your knowledge at the Shad Derby Trivia Contest on Thursday, April 11th, 2019 from 7-9 pm at the Windsor Historical Society. Teams of up to 6 members (age 21 and [...]
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Please join us at Windsor Historical Society on Wednesday, April 17th at 7 p.m., when historian Bill Hosley will present his illustrated lecture: Silicon Valley of the 19th Century: Rediscovering the Connecticut Valley’s Industrial Heritage. [...]
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Just starting out? Experienced but stumped? Want access to Ancestry.com? Family history researchers find that historical artifacts and documents become pieces of a complex and fascinating puzzle that shows you where you came from and [...]
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Please join us at the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead (778 Palisado Avenue, Windsor) on Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 2 p.m. as Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald discuss Amelia Simmons’ 1796 American Cookery, and what this [...]
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SOLD OUT More shad after Shad Derby! Take this rare opportunity to tour Windsor’s Rainbow Dam and Fish Ladder and the Farmington River Power Company built by Stanley Works in 1925. Enthusiastic participants on past [...]
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Just starting out? Hit a brick wall? Let’s try to knock it down together! Want access to Ancestry.com and other genealogy databases? We have access to Ancestry’s international databases with our World Explorer account, as well [...]
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As part of Connecticut’s Open House Day, please join us for a journey back to 1810. On Saturday, June 8, 2019 from 11 am to 3 pm, step into the Windsor Historical Society’s national award-winning [...]
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