AVON HISTORIC SITES OPEN EVERY SUNDAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER
Avon Historical Society announces that the Living Museum at 8 E. Main Street, the Pine Grove Schoolhouse on West Avon Road/Route 167and the Derrin House on 249 West Avon Road are open for the season every Sunday through September from 2:00 – 4:00pm. You are encouraged to visit these sites and experience Avon in a by-gone era. Admission is free.
The Living Museum was built in 1825 as Schoolhouse No.3 on Country Club Road but moved in 1982 to its present location near the U.S. Post Office on Route 44. Since that time the Avon Historical Society has interpreted the one room schoolhouse with artifacts of life in Avon during 1830-1850 when the Farmington Canal was operating in the region. Historic maps, photographs, farming implements and household items from that time are on display. 8 East Main Street
The Pine Grove Schoolhouse was built in 1865 as Schoolhouse No.7 and still remains in its original location. It was in use until 1949 when it became a branch of the town library, nursery school and meeting place for the Boy Scouts. The Avon Historical Society restored the building in 1976 and is interpreted as a schoolhouse of 1900 with bolted desks, hand slates, textbooks, scrolling blackboard and other educational memorabilia of the time. West Avon Road.
The Derrin House, opened to the public in 2009, is operated as a 19th century rural farmhouse. 249 West Avon Road
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