Local Museum Hosting Tours

The South Windsor Historical Society is offering a visual tour of its Pleasant Valley District #5 Schoolhouse Museum at www.southwindsorhistory.org. Created by teacher Joan Degen and professional photographer Carl Walsh, the new video provides 360-degree views of the entire building and its contents.
All South Windsor third graders have been visiting the museum every spring as part of their study of local history, but that program was cancelled because of Covid 19 concerns.
Used as a district elementary school from 1862 to 1952, the building has been renovated and expanded by the society as a local history museum containing school and town memorabilia. It is the only old district schoolhouse in South Windsor that hasn't been demolished or converted to a home. It replaced an earlier school that had been built on the north side of Ellington Road in 1837.
From 1978 to 1994, the society leased and used the building as a museum. It then acquired it from the town. Most of the upper level is maintained as a typical 19th century school room, while the lower level has displays of various items from the town’s agricultural and social history.
Family or small group appointments for a physical tour of the museum may be made by calling museum chair Joan Walsh at 860-644-6000.
For more information about the museum and the society, visit its website at www.southwindsorhistory.org or on Facebook.