Take a walk through time and visit one of the first homes ever to be built in Guilford’s easter settlements at the Deacon John Graves House. Constructed in 1685, the museum tells the incredible, and at times heartbreaking story of the seven generations that called this beautiful house home up until 1979. What’s amazing is that the museum tells the family’s history accurately and with great detail, as the museum is based on a logbook that the family’s first four generations used to detail their lives. Within the museum’s walls are tales of the family’s lives, deaths, joys, sorrows, and their many struggles to simply stay afloat amidst a society that was constantly evolving. Visitors to the Deacon John Graves House can enjoy a lively tour that gives spectacular insights to its very first inhabitant, John Grave I, up to the last Grave descendant to occupy the house, Mary Elizabeth Redfield.
581 Boston Post Road, Madison, Connecticut 06443, Phone: 203-245-4798
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