Local Museum Closed for Summer

The South Windsor Historical Society has cancelled summer hours at its Pleasant Valley District #5 Schoolhouse Museum because of Covid 19 concerns.

Used as a town elementary school from 1862 to 1952, the building has been renovated and expanded by the society as a local history museum containing school and town memorabilia. It is the only old district schoolhouse in South Windsor that hasn't been demolished or converted to a home. It replaced an earlier school that had been built on the north side of Ellington Road in 1837.

From 1978 to 1994, the society leased and maintained the building as a museum, open to visitors and to annual field trips by local elementary school children and scouting groups. It then acquired the building from the town. Most of the upper level is maintained as a 19th century school room, while the lower level has displays of various items from the town’s agricultural and social history.

Museum chair Joan Walsh said future visiting times will be announced later. For more information, call 860-291-9958 or visit the society on Facebook or its website at www.southwindsorhistory.org.