E.+Hartford+County

﻿ Locations with * denote field trips the school went on last year.

**Hill-Stead Museum** (Farmington) This is a turn-of-the-20th-century Colonial revival house built for Alfred A. Pope, an art-loving industrialist. It is furnished as if Pope still lived there, complete with a collection of impressionist paintings by Degas, Monet, Manet and American painters such as Cassatt and Whistler. The house was designed by the Popes’ daughter, Theodate Pope Riddle, who went on to found Avon Old Farms School in the 1920s. [|www.hillstead.org]

***Connecticut State Capitol** (210 Capitol Avenue Hartford) ﻿[] 

**Walking Tour of Hartford** (p. 76) Old State House … to the Richardson … to the Center Church … and the Ancient Burying Ground … to the Wadsworth Atheneum of Art … to the Burr Mall and the State Capitol …(state Library, Supreme Court) and the Museum of Connecticut History.

**Mark Twain House** [|www.marktwainhouse.org]

[|www.harrietbeecherstowe.org]
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe Center **

**New England Air Museum** (Windsor Locks) There are 75 aircrafts in three buildings that trace the history of aviation. This is the largest museum of its kind in the Northeast.

**Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Three houses built for a wealthy merchant, a diplomat, and a craftsman. Each house represents a different style of 18th century life. The Webb house was a setting for a conference between General George Washington and his French counterpart, Jean de Rochambeau.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The ELCCT is a private, non-profit environmental education center that serves the state. Programs are offered at the Barnes Nature Center and Indian Rock Nature Preserve (both in Bristol), as well as in schools. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The "Indian Rock Field Trips" are conducted in the fall and spring and allow students to take part in a full range of early American experiences, including a Wigwam Adventure, Stone Tools, Farm Tours or a four-hour Colonial Cooking adventure where classes will learn how to cook over over an open fireplace. Students actually will prepare a mini meal and sit down to enjoy what they have cooked! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Main Site: [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Field Trips Link: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(501 Wolcott Road Bristol 860-583-1234)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A 65-acre park between Hartford and New Haven offers a geodesic dome exhibit center enclosing an exposure of rock that bears about 500 tracks made by dinosaurs from the Jurassic period – 200 million years ago. Students can make plaster casts from May to October though materials are not included. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.dinosaurstatepark.org]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Dinosaur State Park **