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The Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail

The Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame is the proud founder of a statewide program, the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail. The Women's Heritage Trail is a constellation of fourteen museums and historic houses around the state committed to the interpretation of women's history and culture. The women whose stories are brought to life on the Women's Heritage Trail - both famous and less known - maintained homes and businesses, cared for children and the infirm, provided family income, initiated social reform, inspired creative endeavors, achieved artistic brilliance, and sometimes even became heroines. Discover the remarkable women in Connecticut history on the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail.
Old State House
Hartford
The Old State House Association is a nonprofit association that was formed in 1975 to protect and preserve the site and the building in Hartford, Connecticut.

Prudence Crandall Museum
Canterbury
The site of New England's first academy for African-American girls, established by Prudence Crandall in 1833.

Holley-Williams House Museum
Lakeville
Learn about the role women played in the great American issues of the 19th century.

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Hartford
The Stowe Center's mission is to preserve and interpret Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hartford home and the Center's historic collection.

Windham Textile and History Museum
Willimantic
The Windham Textile and History Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history and heritage of the American textile industry.

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington
A National Historic Landmark, Hill-Stead is an outstanding example of Colonial Revival domestic architecture designed by Theodate Pope Riddle.

Bush-Holley Historic Site
Greenwich
Located on the historic Cos Cob Harbor and home to Connecticut's first art colony.

 

Florence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme
Thanks in large measure to "Miss Florence" Griswold, what is known today as the Florence Griswold Museum has, for more than a century, been the home of the Lyme Art Colony, America's center of Impressionism.

Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary
Fairfield
Founded in 1889 by Mabel Osgood Wright, part of the Connecticut Audubon Society.

New Canaan Historical Society Hanford-Silliman House
New Canann
Illustrates a number of the economic roles women played over time: waitress, cook, boarding house keeper and heiress.

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

Norwalk
This Museum recreates lives led on different economic scales during the height of the Victorian era.

Thankful Arnold House of the Haddam Historical Society
Haddam
Thankful Arnold's ghost leads tours through the house and tells the life story of her, her daughter and granddaughter, which begins in 1794.

Webb-Dean-Stevens Museum
Wethersfield
The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum promotes understanding of colonial life and its enduring influence in the lower Connecticut River Valley through the preservation and interpretation of the Museum's buildings, collections, and grounds.

Osborne Homestead Museum
Derby
The Osborne Homestead Museum encompasses the house and grounds of the former Frances Osborne Kellogg Estate.

 

Attention Girl Scouts!!
Visit the Connecticut Women’s Heritage Trail and earn a badge! For more information please contact the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame: info@cwhf.org