Glastonbury

Worth seeing in and around Glastonbury

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   First Church of Christ, Wethersfield

   The First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, is an American Colonial Era church located in the Old Wethersfield Historic District of Wethersfield, Connecticut. The congregation was founded in 1635, and the cemetery dates from the 1600s, but the current Georgian-style, brick meetinghouse, with its distinctive white steeple, was built in 1761.

   3.6 km · church building in Connecticut, United States of America · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Joseph Webb House

   The Joseph Webb House is a historic Georgian-style house at 211 Main Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was designated a National Historic Landmark for its significance as the location of the five-day military conference between George Washington and French commander Rochambeau in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War that preceded the Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the war.

   3.8 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Wethersfield Village Cemetery

   Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery is a historic burying ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States, which was established in 1638. It is the second-oldest burial ground in the state.

   3.5 km · cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Gideon Welles House

   The Gideon Welles House is a historic house at 17 Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Built in 1783, it was home to generations of the locally prominent Welles family, whose most famous member was Gideon Welles, the United States Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

   0 m · house in Glastonbury, Connecticut · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum

   The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, located in Wethersfield, Connecticut, is owned and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Connecticut. The museum features three 18th-century houses that sit on their original sites in the center of Old Wethersfield: the 1752 Joseph Webb House, the 1769 Silas Deane House and the 1789 Isaac Stevens House.

   3.7 km · museum in Wethersfield, Connecticut · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Buttolph-Williams House

   The Buttolph–Williams House is a historic house museum at 249 Broad Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Built in 1711, it is one of the oldest surviving houses in the town.

   3.6 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   William H. Putnam Memorial Bridge

   The Putnam Bridge is a bridge in the state of Connecticut carrying the Route 3 freeway over the Connecticut River, connecting Interstate 91 in Wethersfield and Route 2 in Glastonbury. It is the southernmost crossing of the Connecticut River in the Hartford Area and carries an average of 50,800 vehicles per day.[1] The bridge was built in the late 1950s as part of the Route 3 freeway between Interstate 91 and Route 2.

   2.7 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia

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Bradley (BDL), 26 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 98 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 148 km

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