Old Manchester Museum
Old Manchester Museum is a museum in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 61 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is The Fire Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 28 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Manchester Historical Society
How to reach it
- 28.4 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Named places within 25 miles
- The Fire Museum: 0.2 mi
- Cheney Homestead Museum: 0.5 mi
- Lutz Children's Museum: 1.0 mi
- Pratt & Whitney Hangar Museum: 5.0 mi
- Selden Brewer House: 5.3 mi
- Attawanhood Park: 0.4 mi
- Center Park: 0.8 mi
- Center Spring Pond Park: 0.9 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Spruce Street Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Gould Parklet: 0.8 mi
- Path to Wellness Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Alpine Parklet: 1.0 mi
- Purdy Nature Park: 1.3 mi
- Linares Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Academy Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mount Nebo: 1.0 mi
- Toby Hill: 1.7 mi
- Bush Hill: 2.3 mi
- Green Hill: 2.6 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 1.0 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 2.1 mi
- Case Falls: 2.3 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 4.6 mi
- Blackledge Falls: 6.0 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 2.3 mi
- Hay Tedder: 4.4 mi
- The Dreamyard: 5.1 mi
- Car Wreck: 5.9 mi
- filled-in well: 6.4 mi
- Frog: 2.4 mi
- Sorry Rock: 3.4 mi
- Equality: 6.5 mi
- The Circuit Rider: 6.7 mi
- Career Column: 6.7 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 6.5 mi
- William H. Putnam: 7.2 mi
- Site Of The Charter Oak: 7.2 mi
- Warner Memorial: 7.3 mi
- Dr. Horace Wells: 7.4 mi
- Wickham Park English Garden: 2.4 mi
- Wickham Park Irish Garden: 2.5 mi
- Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 2.6 mi
- Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 2.7 mi
- Growing Roots Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Flag Rock: 4.7 mi
- Crow Point: 6.0 mi
- Garden Wall: 13.7 mi
- South Wall: 13.7 mi
- Solar Panel: 13.8 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 13.6 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.1 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 16.4 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 20.2 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 21.3 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 15.0 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 15.0 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 18.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 23.4 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 24.7 mi
- Gay City State Park: 5.6 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 19.4 mi
- Windham Spring: 17.3 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Old Manchester Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NE 44° | 294 m | 11.0 mi |
| Grant Hill | ENE 65° | 284 m | 8.3 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NE 43° | 282 m | 12.1 mi |
| Reed Hill | NE 51° | 275 m | 8.7 mi |
| Mannantuck | SE 142° | 273 m | 5.1 mi |
| John Tom Hill | SE 142° | 272 m | 5.1 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | S 183° | 265 m | 9.4 mi |
| Box Hill | ENE 58° | 252 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:13 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/853521364
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 10 mi
- Tolland · 11 mi
- Storrs · 15 mi
- Somers · 16 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 17 mi
- Willimantic · 17 mi
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