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Heritage Tourism Initiative

On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, the Guilford Preservation Alliance sponsored a workshop on Heritage Tourism. The workshop was led by Carolyn Brackett, the Senior Program Associate for the Heritage Tourism Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Susan Misur covered the event and her article appeared in the Friday, October 21, 2011 issue of the New Haven Register.

New inventory on our website

We have just posted on our website (on the page entitled GPA Survey of Historic Places) a new, comprehensive annotated list of properties in Guilford. This survey, entitled “Significant Structures Fifty Years Old or More, Guilford, [Read More...]

Dispatches from Dennis

Photo by Nicole Ball

Civil War documents

May 6, 2011 By admin

Dispatches from Dennis:  Spring 2011. I have been studying the Civil War in spurts and starts since I was sent to Petersburg, Virginia in the 1980s for procurement training.  Civil War history contains such a vast amount of information from varied sources that when I restarted my studies a few years ago, I decided to try to connect my understanding to local soldiers and local units here in Guilford.  The problem that surfaces while studying the Civil War is that the more you discover, the … [Read More...]

Sustainable Guilford

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What’s new, what’s old

May 6, 2011 By admin

A column by Howard Brown, widely acclaimed environmental and management consultant and GPA board member. Preservation and Change. I often hear people say that nothing ever changes around here.  When I moved to Guilford in 1970, there was one traffic light.  Route 1 was a rural road through open fields and woods.   Most of the houses along the shoreline were uninsulated summer cottages.  The population was about 8,000 and an acre of land was about $8000. Many of the houses in the center … [Read More...]

View from the Chair

Trolley Days

May 6, 2011 By admin

The unpretentious utilitarian building at the corner of Water and River Streets evokes memories of the time when Guilford residents could hop aboard an electric trolley on the Green and take the scenic route up and down the shoreline, from New Haven to New London and beyond. Presently occupied by a carpet store, the old trolley barn was built around 1910 and served as a maintenance facility for electric railway cars until 1930. During the brief heyday of the interurban trolley, before the … [Read More...]