• Wallop School Museum Open House

    Wallop School Museum 250 Abbe Road, Enfield, CT

    Built about 1800 to replace an earlier schoolhouse, the Wallop School Museum was one of the last one-room schools in use in Connecticut. Today it is a place to learn what school was like in the days before the Internet or even electricity and plumbing. Our friendly volunteers are here to help you practice your[...]

  • Letters from Enfield’s Past

    Enfield Public Library 104 Middle Road, Enfield, CT

    Do you remember the days before email, texts, and smartphones that follow us everywhere? The days when letters only came on paper - and just once a day? Letters filled with news, gossip, and important business? Travel back to those days with Mike Miller from the Enfield Historical Society. He will share letters from the[...]

    Free
  • Old Town Hall Museum Open

    Old Town Hall Museum 1294 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT

    The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum.  Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]

  • Old Town Hall Museum Open

    Old Town Hall Museum 1294 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT

    The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum.  Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]

  • Old Town Hall Museum Open

    Old Town Hall Museum 1294 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT

    The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum.  Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]

  • Old Town Hall Museum Open

    Old Town Hall Museum 1294 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT

    The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum.  Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]

  • Old Town Hall Museum Open

    Old Town Hall Museum 1294 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT

    The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum.  Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]

  • Enfield Sports & the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame

    Enfield Public Library 104 Middle Road, Enfield, CT

    Join Enfield Historical Society member Jim Malley for a PowerPoint presentation on Enfield Sports & the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame. The presentation will include a look at Enfield History, sports origins, the Grey's Athletic Association & Bigelow Carpet teams, and Angelo Lamagna. The program will also examine how Enfield's population impacted high school and[...]

    Free
  • Old Town Hall Museum Open

    Old Town Hall Museum 1294 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT

    The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum.  Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]

  • The British (and Germans) Are Coming!  The “Convention Army” in Enfield, 1778

    Enfield Public Library 104 Middle Road, Enfield, CT

    After the Battle of Saratoga, Massachusetts suddenly had thousands of British and German prisoners of war they desperately wanted to get rid of--and keep from rejoining the war.  The solution?  March them a thousand miles south to Charlottesville, of course!  So began the strange march of the "Convention Army," made up of British regulars, German[...]

    Free