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Landscape of the Imagination - An overview of the Connecticut town green - an icon of history, tradition, and community. |
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Guilford: Heart of the Community - The history of Guilford's common reflects the evolution of many greens from unkempt public utilitarian spaces to landscaped parks used for leisure and recreation. |
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Lebanon: Patriots and More - Unlike most greens, the Lebanon Green was never landscaped as a park. To visit this mile-long swath of open hayfield is to imagine how a town common may have looked in the eighteenth century. |
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Litchfield: Colonial Revival Town - The Litchfield Green is one of the state's most distinctive and recognizable symbols of rural beauty. |
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New Haven: The Elm City - A distinctive presence for more than 350 years, the New Haven Green serves as a relic of the oldest formally planned community in America. |
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Norwich: The Rose City - An historical study and celebration of Norwich's four prominent town greens. |
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Tolland: A Quiet Curiosity - The Tolland green is an historic town landscape so sidestepped by modern development that it appears to be frozen in the late nineteenth century. |
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Waterbury: The Brass City - Waterbury's green is an old meetinghouse common that has survived through the years as a symbol of continuity in a city substantially affected by the post-war decline in brass manufacturing. |
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Identifying a Town Green: Methods
Learn how the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation identified the 172 town greens surveyed in 1992-93. Go to the Document Center and scroll to Methods. |
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Want to Research your own Green?
Visit the Document Center, to be found in the DataCenter and look for Researching Town Greens. Bibliographies, historical themes and helpful hints lead you to discover more about your own town green. |
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www.TownGreens.com Receives Awards
The Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to announce that www.TownGreens.com has received two awards: The Connecticut Humanities Council's Wilbur Cross Award for outstanding use of technology and the Connecticut League of History Organization's Award of Merit for developing a data-based history website which acts as an archive on Connecticut's town greens and for greatly adding to the understanding of Connecticut local and state history. |
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