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The Governor Jonathan Trumbull House contains several excellent examples of 18th and 19th century needlework.

The Governor Jonathon Trumbull House owns 12 pieces of custom-made china that were made in England by the famous Leeds company. None of the pieces have a maker’s mark which indicates they were made in the later 18th or early 19th century. They have a red Greek key pattern with an inset of a bull’s…

On permanent exhibit in the Stable, is a beautifully restored elegant sleigh once having belonged to many generations of the Alsop family of Middletown, CT.  After conveying many generations of Alsop’s through the cold and snowy streets and byways of Middletown, it was eventually replaced by the automobile, and the beautiful ‘booby hut’ sleigh was stored…

Soaring behind the Wadsworth Stable Museum is a descendant of the Washington Oak tree that shaded General George Washington and his troops as they traveled from New York to Hartford, Connecticut. This famous tree was brought here as a scion, a graft of the original tree, and given to the DAR by Miss Katharine Matties…