Middletown Heritage Trail
With 20 stations sited at various landmarks throughout the city's downtown, this historic walking tour provides the city's first permanent exploration of Middletown's illustrious and diverse past. Colorful, highly illustrated plaques reveal the city of yesteryear: the shipbuilding glory days, clashes between Tories and Patriots, efforts by local Abolitionists to end slavery, and how newly arrived immigrants build the majestic churches that stand today.

Their Own Stories
Hear the voices from Middletown’s melting pot. Our virtual exhibit chronicles the worlds of a nearly a dozen groups, beginning in 1650 with the Wangunk Indians and the early English colonists. It looks at Africans and follows the waves of European immigrants – Irish, Swedes, Poles, Germans, Jews, Italians and Greeks – who sought a better life in America.

Civil War Exhibit
The experiences of local Union soldiers come vividly to life in our permanent exhibit, Hard Tack, Salt Pork and Faith, in which soldiers’ own words are juxtaposed with their belongings.

General Mansfield
Middletown’s own Civil War hero, General Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, died at the Battle of Antietem in 1862.

Historical Societies
Connecticut is rich in history, and many of the local and state historical societies maintain web sites to improve access to their materials and programs.