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History & Culture

• Center for Connecticut Studies
• Connecticut Historical Society
• Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation
• Connecticut History On-Line
• Connecticut’s Heritage Gateway
• Connecticut Railroad Archives
• Connecticut Humanities Council
• Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism - official state tourism site
• Colonial Connecticut Records
• Connecticut Archaeology Center
• Hog River Journal
• FAQs About Connecticut  - courtesy of the Connecticut State Library

Cemeteries & Gravestone Studies

• Connecticut Gravestone Network
• Connecticut Cemetery Inscription Search
• Tombstone Transcription Project 
• The Crypt at Center Church - an underground graveyard in New Haven

Highways, Byways & Roadside Attractions

• Roadside America - Connecticut
• Weird Tales in the Connecticut Highway System
• Frog Bridge - aka Thread City Crossing in Willimantic
• Joseph Steward's Museum of Oddities and Curiosities
• Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum - in Bristol
• The Nut Museum - in Old Lyme
• Ghost Parking Lot - in Hamden
• Old Newgate Prison
• Lock Museum of America
• The Keeler Museum - has a cannon ball from the Revolutionary War embedded in their wall
• P. T. Barnum Museum - in Bridgeport – also see the Barnum Festival
• The CRRA (Children's) Garbage Museum
• Gillette Castle - in East Haddam
• Stew Leonard's - world's largest dairy store
• Holy Land USA  - in Waterbury
• Connecticut River Museum - features America's first submarine, the "Turtle"
• Timexpo Museum - a museum about time, includes an Easter Island tour(!), in Waterbury
• Mystic Seaport 
• Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry
• Dinosaur State Park
• Little People Village - somewhere in Fairfield County
• Savin Rock Museum - in West Haven
• The Mill Museum - Windham Textile and History Museum
• New England Air Museum
• Nathan Hale Homestead
• Prudence Crandall Museum
• Noah Webster House – home of the author of the American dictionary
• Sloan-Stanley Museum - studio and museum of artist and tool collector Eric Sloan

Legends & Folklore

· The Story of the Windham Frogs

• The Curious History of the Bacchus of Windham
• The Charter Oak
• Barkhamsted Lighthouse
• Legend of Lake Pocotopaug
• The Black Dog of Meriden
• The Dark Side of Bethany - spooky tales of Bethany including the "Downs Road Monster"; more here about Downs Road

Local Color

• Boombox Parade - in Willimantic
• The Whale Trail - a new meaning to the term "whale watching" in Mystic
• Hooker Day Parade – in Hartford
• “Bundling” in Bolton – also see “The Art of Bundling” on the New England Links page
• Hosmer Mountain Soda - locally produced beverages
• Avery Soda – more locally produced beverages
• The First Pizza - from Frank Pepe's in New Haven
• How did the dogtags of a Killingly Union soldier end up in a Confederate submarine?
• The Voynich Manuscript - at the Yale Library
• Louis' Lunch - in New Haven, home of the original hamburger as created by Louis Lassen
• Gardner Lake - with watery tinkling of the ivories

People

• The Leatherman
• The XYZ Bank Robber  - in Deep River
• Capt. S. L. Gray - buried in a rum cask in Lebanon
• The Man Who “Rocked” Hartford – artist Carl Andre and his controversial public sculpture
• General Israel Putnam
• Nathaniel Lyon - first general to die in Civil War
• Gustave Whitehead - first man to fly, two years before the Wright Bros.
• Salvatore Verdirome - built a shrine to "Mary in the Bathtub"
• Nathan Hale - the official state hero 
• Prudence Crandall - the official state heroine
• Michael Ross - serial killer from Killingly
• Venture Smith – the slave who bought his freedom and became a wealthy landowner, read his autobiography here.
• Charles Q. Eldredge – owned a private museum in Mystic

Places & Explorations

• Megaliths, Caves and Litchfield County History
• Gungywamp - in Groton
• Colebrook Cave: Legend or Hoax?
• Satan’s Kingdom – in New Hartford
• Devil's Hopyard
• Indian Place Names of Connecticut
• Norwich State Hospital
• Joshua's Trust - conservation and historic trust...site has trail maps 
• Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor - covering northeast CT and southcentral MA...site has area maps  
• The Southwick Jog - Why is there a "jog" in Connecticut's border with Massachusetts?

Phenomena

• The Moodus Noises
• Mutual UFO Network of Connecticut
• Resident Reports UFO Sighting – in Bristol
• Devil's Hopyard Encounter - in Haddem

Ghosts and Hauntings

• Dudleytown - in Litchfield County (also check National Geographic's Birder's Journal)
• Connecticut Paranormal Research Society
• PSI - Paranormal & Supernatural Investigation - mostly all Connecticut sites
• Cosmic Society  - Donna Kent's homepage
• Skeleton Crew Paranormal Research Society
• The Warrens
• The Benton Homestead – in Tolland
• Phelps Mansion
• Ghosts of Bolton Past and Present
• Union Cemetery
• Ledge Lighthouse - in New London...haunted by "Ernie"
• Bara Hack - Lost Village of Voices

Witches

• Connecticut Witch Trials Bibliography
• Research Guide To Some Materials on Witchcraft at the Connecticut State Library
• Hanna Cranna, the Witch of Monroe
• Witches and Witchcraft: The First Person Executed in the Colonies
• A Case of Witchcraft in Hartford 

Vampires

• Walton Cemetery - in Griswold
• The Ray Family – in Jewett City

Misc.

• Legendary Connecticut: Traditional Tales of the Nutmeg State - by David E. Philips (The complete book now on line courtesy of Curbstone Press.)

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