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Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum’s “Witches and Tombstones Tours”
October 27, 2018 - October 28, 2018
Sponsored by: Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
The tours will begin in the museum’s Stevens House, where visitors will step into the parlor set up for the wake of little Henry Stevens, who perished in 1828 at age 3. The next stop is the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground, with Henry Stevens’s tiny headstone and those of his father and mother,the final resting places of the victims of Connecticut’s first mass murder. The last stop is the ca. 1714 Buttolph-Williams House for tales from the notorious Wethersfield witch trials.
Note: The 90-minute timed tours will begin at 10:00AM and leave every 45 minutes.
The cost is $18 per person. Advance tickets go on sale September 25 and may be purchased at webb-deane-stevens.org/witches-and-tombstones-tours-2/.