Lock Museum of America
Lock Museum of America is a museum in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 194 m. Jefferson Hill stands 378 m to the west-northwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Baldwin Park, a park 0.2 miles away.
The story
The Lock Museum of America is a museum about locks and the history of locksmithing in the United States. The museum houses an extensive lock collection that includes 30 early era time locks, escutcheon plates from safes, a large number of British safe locks, door locks, padlocks, handcuffs and keys, and more. Located in Terryville, Connecticut, the museum is directly across from the original site of the Eagle Lock Company, founded in 1854.
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Dates from 1972.
Wikidata Q6665224, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 194 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Baldwin Park: 0.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Playground: 0.2 mi
- Town Hall Field: 0.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls Nature Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Vista Park: 2.6 mi
- Town Hill: 0.8 mi
- Holt Hill: 1.9 mi
- Plymouth Hill: 2.1 mi
- Lane Hill: 2.2 mi
- Pine Hill: 2.3 mi
- Lake Winfield Recreation Area: 0.8 mi
- City of Bristol Land: 1.6 mi
- Shepard Nature Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Thomaston Dam: 2.9 mi
- Minor Preserve: 2.9 mi
- James P. Casey plaque: 1.6 mi
- Edward G Swicklas Employee Garden: 2.7 mi
- Bristol Spanish War Veterans Monument: 2.7 mi
- Sap Evaporator: 6.1 mi
- Kathy Ebersold plaque: 6.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 2.4 mi
- Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 4.1 mi
- Cascade: 4.5 mi
- Knife Shop Falls: 4.8 mi
- Knife Shop Falls: 4.9 mi
- Railroad Museum of New England: 2.9 mi
- Bristol Memorial Military Museum: 3.3 mi
- Imagine Nation Children's Museum: 3.5 mi
- American Clock and Watch Museum: 3.7 mi
- New England Carousel Museum: 3.8 mi
- Tory's Den: 2.9 mi
- Boynton Butterfly Garden: 4.6 mi
- Rock House: 4.8 mi
- Libby's Lump: 5.5 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 5.5 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 8.6 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 8.9 mi
- Japanese Garden: 9.4 mi
- Sustainable Garden: 9.5 mi
- Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 9.5 mi
- Ben Franklin: 8.8 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 8.8 mi
- Maori Head: 8.8 mi
- Greetings from Waterbury: 8.9 mi
- Home: 11.9 mi
- Ravens Roost: 2.8 mi
- Petro Cliffs: 2.9 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 4.6 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 4.7 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 9.0 mi
- Boating Side: 3.5 mi
- Waterfront: 3.5 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 8.9 mi
- Sandy Beach: 10.4 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 11.0 mi
- Hermit spring: 13.4 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 16.7 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 16.9 mi
- Big Spring: 19.0 mi
- Cold Spring: 25.0 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 9.2 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 16.4 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 19.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 3.5 mi
- Dudley Town: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Lock Museum of America. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Hill | WNW 302° | 378 m | 8.9 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | WNW 295° | 359 m | 9.0 mi |
| Johnnycake Mountain | N 10° | 354 m | 5.3 mi |
| Guernsey Hill | WNW 289° | 346 m | 6.7 mi |
| Scoville Hill | NW 322° | 340 m | 6.9 mi |
| East Chestnut Hill | WNW 293° | 324 m | 8.4 mi |
| South Mountain | ESE 122° | 313 m | 4.0 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | SSE 148° | 312 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:41 | 16:25 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/969622818
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- East Windsor · 29 mi
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