Connecticut River Museum
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Connecticut River Museum is a museum in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Tater Hill stands 179 m to the north, 7.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Essex Park, a park 0.2 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 15 miles off.
The story
The Connecticut River Museum is a U.S. educational and cultural institution based at Steamboat Dock in Essex, Connecticut that focuses on the marine environment and maritime heritage of the Connecticut River Valley. The three-story Connecticut River Museum is located in a restored 1878 steamboat warehouse, which is now the only one of its type remaining on the river, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum opened to the public in 1975, with Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso as its first paid member and ex officio patron. The core of its collection came from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, which provided the museum with a loan of nautical artwork, navigation equipment and maritime-related artifacts.
The museum's main and third levels offer changing exhibits, while its second level is home to a permanent exhibition on shipbuilding, which includes historical maps and models of steamboats and exhibits on the piscine species in the Connecticut River. The museum's collection also includes a full-scale replica of Turtle, the first American submarine, which was constructed in Essex in 1776 for use against the British in the American Revolution. The museum property also includes a boathouse and a research library. In December 1995, the museum was given a triangular 1-acre (4,000 m2) waterfront property, valued at US$910,000, in the neighboring village of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, by Bill and Victoria Winterer, who were among the museums co-founders. The property is used as a waterfront park managed by the museum. In 2011 the museum caught fire. They had to rebuild part of it.
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Dates from 1975.
Wikidata Q5161592, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 14.8 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 25.8 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 28.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Essex Park: 0.2 mi
- Essex Square: 0.4 mi
- Municipal Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Essex Tennis Courts: 0.6 mi
- Hubbard Field: 0.8 mi
- South Cove Access: 0.4 mi
- Sunset Pond: 0.8 mi
- Turtle Creek Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Turtle Creek Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Heron Pond Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Essex Historical Society: 0.5 mi
- Essex Steam Train & Riverboat: 1.1 mi
- Museum of Fife and Drum: 3.2 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 3.5 mi
- Lyme Art Association: 3.5 mi
- Stumpet Hill: 0.8 mi
- Cheney Hill: 0.8 mi
- Ely Hill: 1.1 mi
- Viney Hill: 1.6 mi
- Book Hill: 1.9 mi
- Suellen Kozy McCuin: 2.7 mi
- Lyme Roll of Honor: 3.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 4.1 mi
- The Eagle: 4.9 mi
- The Ancient Town of Lyme: 4.9 mi
- Indiantown Beach: 5.2 mi
- Chalker Beach: 5.2 mi
- Great Hammock Beach: 5.3 mi
- Harveys Beach: 5.4 mi
- Chapman Beach: 5.4 mi
- Cascade: 6.9 mi
- Cascade: 7.6 mi
- Cascade: 7.6 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 7.8 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 8.3 mi
- Stone Table: 4.1 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 5.1 mi
- Historic Ferry: 5.3 mi
- tri-town marker: 7.2 mi
- turtle rock: 8.0 mi
- Memorial Garden: 3.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 9.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 10.8 mi
- Gingers Garden: 11.4 mi
- Native Plant Gardens: 12.5 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 4.9 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 10.1 mi
- Totem Pole: 10.9 mi
- James Madison: 12.3 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 14.6 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 3.3 mi
- Pine Ledge: 4.7 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 16.2 mi
- Bluff Head: 16.7 mi
- Chimney Corner: 18.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 4.8 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 16.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 21.5 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 21.8 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Skate Hut: 13.8 mi
- Powder House: 13.8 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 6.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 10.5 mi
- Old Spring: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.5 miles of Connecticut River Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tater Hill | N 9° | 179 m | 7.6 mi |
| Bald Hill | NNW 347° | 167 m | 7.8 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NW 307° | 138 m | 7.5 mi |
| Mount Archer | NNE 21° | 136 m | 3.8 mi |
| Dolbia Hill | NNE 24° | 134 m | 8.4 mi |
| Grassy Hill | ENE 58° | 129 m | 6.4 mi |
| Wig Hill | NW 305° | 128 m | 6.4 mi |
| Tower Hill | W 273° | 126 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367140059
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