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which maintains a collection of twenty architecturally unique buildings. Some of the structures include a carriage house, Americana Museum, miniature lighthouse, windmill, a clock tower museum, trolley station, chapel, and a blacksmith shop. The property became a public park owned by the town of
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services, the Putney Chapel was moved onto Boothe Park grounds in 1968 from a nearby location on Chapel Street. The chapel is officially non-denominational, handicapped accessible and can still be used as a place of worship or for events, being rentable by the day.
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in America," since it sits on the foundations of a 1663 house, and has been continuously occupied. Circa 1914 two brothers, David Beach Boothe and Stephen Nichols Boothe, created the
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Observatory was built in 1957 on the grounds of the park, located near the cemetery. The observatory features two telescopes: a 16-inch
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Photographs and description of sights in the park from New England Site
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Photos of the park from the town of Stratford's website
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Cheshire, England
Booth Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Boothe Memorial Park and Museum is located in Connecticut
Boothe Memorial Park and Museum is located in the United States
Stratford, Connecticut
boothememorialpark.org
85000951
Putney
Stratford
Connecticut
Homestead
National Register of Historic Places
BMAS (Boothe Memorial Astronomical Society)
Cassegrain
Unitron
Congregationalist

toll booth
Milford
Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge
Merritt Parkway
National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Boothe Memorial Park, Stratford – Damned Connecticut"
"Friends Keep Watch over Grand Collection"
"Boothe Memorial Astronomical Society, Stratford, CT"

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