Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Under $25A Hamden museum on the Irish Famine that presents it through visual art.
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An 18th-century house in Hamden, Connecticut, open for tours through the Hamden Historical Society.
105 Mount Carmel Avenue, Hamden, CT · Hamden, CT
The Jonathan Dickerman House is a late-eighteenth-century home in Hamden, Connecticut, run by the Hamden Historical Society. Visitors can take a guided tour of the house, which is furnished in period style. The property also includes the Talmadge Cider Mill Barn, which displays work from the restoration of the house after a 2018 tornado damaged it, along with a bench made from the Door-Tree of Hamden. The house has also hosted spinning demonstrations and school visits about daily life in the 1700s.
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