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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Windsor

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Windsor, Connecticut

Updated October 21, 2022

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Table radio display

Windsor, Connecticut

Vintage Radio and Communications Museum

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.
Memorial brick to Alse Young.

Windsor, Connecticut

Memorial to Alse Young and Lydia Gilbert

Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.
Drastic Park visible from the main road.

Windsor, Connecticut

Drastic Park

A collection of mechanical beasts with some interesting names.
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Ancient sand dunes from Glacial Lake Hitchcock.

Bloomfield, Connecticut

Matianuck Natural Area Preserve

Sand dunes from a glacial lake are preserved in this woodland park.
3 miles from Windsor
The centerpiece of the Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, where the middle tent post stood.

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.
4 miles from Windsor
Jack the turkey.

Hartford, Connecticut

Statue of Jack the Pardoned Turkey

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.
4 miles from Windsor
The Anchisaurus cast in its display case.

East Windsor, Connecticut

The Bones from the Well

A replica of fossils believed to be the first scientifically-described dinosaur bones found in North America.
5 miles from Windsor
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