and then onto Conneticut

Willimantic - Frog Bridge

All four "corner" posts have a different frog.  It was a fun bridge; unfortunately, it was under repair and it was impossible to get pictures of the four frogs.



East Granby - Old New Gate Prison

The mine, one of the earliest in the Americal colonies, was opened in 1706 and it continued in operation for more than 40 years.  In 1773 the Connecticut colony designated the mine as a prison, the state's first, naming it after the infamous Newgate Prison in London.  The prison held criminals as well as political prisoners during the Revolutionary War.  New Gate was closed in 1827,

Harriet Beecher Stowe House - Ms. Stowe's fame as the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) overshadowed her skill as an interior decorator and other civil rights activities she pursued.  The Stowes lived here until Harriet's death in 1896.




 
Mark Twain House - next door to the Stowe Home, Mark Twain lived here from 1874 to 1891 and penned six novels.

Twain wrote some of his best-known works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the tranquility of the Billiard Room.