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Housatonic Heritage

The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Exists To Illuminate The Diverse, Rich Identity Of The Upper Housatonic River Valley Region & To Preserve & Promote Its Historical, Cultural & Natural Resources.

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24 Main Street, PO Box 493, Salisbury, CT 06068
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Sharon Audubon Center & Miles Wildlife Sanctuary – Sharon, Conn

Audubon Sharon, consisting of the Sharon Audubon Center and Emily Winthrop Miles Wildlife Sanctuary, has been connecting people with nature for over forty years. Creating life-changing experiences that enable community members and their families to appreciate, understand and protect the natural world is at the very core of our mission. Artist Emily Winthrop Miles donated […]
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Norfolk Historical Society & Museum – Norfolk, Conn

The Museum is housed in the old Norfolk Academy, built in 1840, later used as the Town Hall and Jail, and located on the Norfolk Village Green. Since 1960, the Norfolk Historical Society has been preserving our town’s unique history and caring for our rich collection of artifacts and documents. Come see a wonderful display […]
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Hancock Shaker Village – Hancock, Mass

About The Museum—The Village today consists of 18 historic buildings set amongst farm, field, meadow and woodland, and a collection of 22,200 objects. The Hancock Shaker Village is a designated National Historic Landmark. National Historic Landmarks are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality […]
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Great Mountain Forest – Norfolk & Falls Village, Conn

The Great Mountain Forest (GMF) encompasses approximately 6,042 acres of contiguous forestland in the towns of Norfolk and Falls Village, Connecticut, in the northwest corner of Litchfield County, Connecticut. The mission is to engage in and support scientific research and education projects involving trees, forests, and other natural resources. Year-Round Public Access Recreational Uses – […]
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Arrowhead, Home of Herman Melville – Pittsfield, Mass

Arrowhead was the home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863. It was at Arrowhead that Melville wrote his most famous work, Moby-Dick, along with three other novels, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter, a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales, all of his magazine stories, and some of his poetry. Arrowhead is a designated […]
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Campbell Falls State Park – Norfolk, Conn

Campbell Falls State Park Reserve was a gift to the State of Connecticut and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the White Memorial Foundation of Litchfield Connecticut. The Whiting River, rising in Massachusetts, falls nearly 100 feet before entering Connecticut. The park was placed under protection of the two states in 1923 and special laws were […]
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Ashuwillticook Rail Trail – Lanesborough, Cheshire, Adams, No. Adams, Mass

The 11-mile Ashuwillticook Rail Trail wends its’ way through the back woods history and natural beauty of 4 Berkshire County communities, tracing roughly the same travel route Native Americans and later early settlers used centuries ago. It was an abandoned railway corridor that was then transformed into a paved trail for walkers, bikers, rollerbladers and […]
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Litchfield County Choral Union & LCCU Festival Orchestra

Summer performances at The Music Shed at Norfolk – the Battell Stoeckel Estate Yale Summer School of Music Norfolk, CT [ At the junction of Rt 44 and Rt 272 ] The Litchfield County Choral Union (an ~ 75 member chorus) was established in 1899 by Ellen and Carl Stoeckel in memory of Mrs. Stoeckels […]
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Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument – East Canaan, Conn

The Beckley Blast Furnace was one of three blast furnaces in operation along Lower Road and the Blackberry River in East Canaan during the period 1832-1923. Knowledgeable guides — members of the Friends of Beckley Furnace — are onsite at the Furnace from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each Saturday in the summer.

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