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| Attraction Name |
Location |
Phone |
Description |
| Lake Compounce Amusement Park |
822 Lake Avenue Bristol, CT |
860-583-3300 |
Connecticut's largest waterpark which also has a great selection of rollercoasters and children's rides.
http://www.lakecompunce.com
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| The Children's Museum |
950 Trout Brook Dr West Hartford, Ct |
860-231-2824 |
Connecticut's largest and most popular children's museum. Igniting curosity through science and nature.
http://www.thechildrensmuseumct.org
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| Hill-Stead Museum |
35 Mountain Rd Farmington, Ct |
860-677-4787 |
See original paintings by Monet, Degas, Whistler, Cassatt & Manet hung amid orginal furnishings in this turn of the century estate.
http://www.hillstead.org
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| Phelps Tavern Museum and Homestead |
800 Hopmeadow St Simsbury, Ct |
860-658-2500 |
Experience rural New England tavern life from 1786-1849.
http://www.simsburyhistory.org
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| Old Newgate Copper Mine |
115 Newgate Rd East Granby, Ct |
860-653-3563 |
The tunnels left behind in the early 1700's by miners burrowing deep underground in search of copper ore became Connecticut's first prison.
http://www.cultureandtourism.org
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| Ski Sundown |
126 Ratlum Rd New Hartford, Ct |
860-379-7669 |
Experience top quality skiing and snowboarding in Connecticut.
http://www.skisundown.com
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| The Mark Twain House & Museum |
351 Farmington Ave Hartford, Ct 06105 |
860-247-0998 |
Visit the Tiffany decorated victorian mansion where Mark Twain lived with his family from 1874 to 1891.
http://www.marktwainhouse.org
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| Hillstead Museum |
Farmington, CT |
860-677-4787 |
The paintings at Hill-Stead reflect their collector’s personal aesthetic at the end of the 19th century. Masterpieces by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet make the collection one of the most significant in the United States today. Combined with notable works by Mary Cassatt and James McNeill Whistler, these paintings reflect Alfred Pope’s distinguishing taste for what was new and fresh and moved him. Pope also acquired paintings by such mainstream artists as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Eugène Carrière, whose paintings were widely collected in the 1880s and 1890s.
http://www.hillstead.org
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| Wadsworth Athenaeum |
Hartford, CT |
(860) 278-2670 |
From classical to contemporary, and everything in between, exhibits at the Wadsworth Atheneum are groundbreaking, thought-provoking, illuminating, and captivating.
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org
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| New Britain Museum of American Art |
New Britain, CT |
860 229-0257 |
Over 5,000 works of American Art.
http://www.nbmaa.org
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| Stanley-Whitman House |
Farmington, CT |
860 677-9222 |
Stanley-Whitman House is a living history center that educates through the collection, preservation, research and dynamic interpretation of the history and culture of early Farmington.
http://www.stanleywhitman.org
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| Mark Twain House |
Hartford, CT |
860-247-0998 |
The museum provides the richest possible treasury of Twain's triumphs and tragedies, contemporaries and the Gilded Age.
http://www.marktwainhouse.org
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe House |
Hartford, CT |
860-522-9258 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.
http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
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| Six Flags New England |
Agawam, Massachusetts |
413-786-9300 |
Amusement park
http://www.sixflags.com/newEngland/index.aspx
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| Lake Compounce |
Bristol, CT |
860-583-3300 |
Amusement park
http://www.lakecompounce.com
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| HEUBLEIN TOWER |
Talcott Mountan State Park Simsbury, CTCt |
(860) 677-0662 |
One-mile hike to the historic 165-foot Heublein Tower on Avon Mountain, with superb views of Hartford and the Farmington River valley; picnic and hiking areas, music festival and other activities in the summer.
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