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Walnut Hill Community Church

Walnut Hill Community Church is a nondenominational, evangelical multi-site megachurch based in Bethel, Connecticut. History The church was founded in 1982 by a group of families that had begun meeting in a home. In 2024, the weekly church attendance averaged 2,000. It is estimated that more than 4,000 people consider Walnut Hill home. Attendees come from a wide range of denominational and cultural backgrounds, giving the church a reputation for being warm and welcoming. Multi-campus church As a multi-campus church, Walnut Hill Community Church functions as one church with many locations. Each campus location shares the same mission, vision and values, but expresses them in a way that is relevant and effective to its local community. The church communicates its purpose as "Igniting a passion for Jesus in Connecticut, New England and around the world" and invests its resources in providing biblical preaching, serving the local community, developing the next generation and building a strong sense of belonging among its congregation. Campus locations can be found in Bethel, Derby, New Milford, and Waterbury and online. Additional campuses will be considered in the future. Team leadership Walnut Hill operates under a team leadership model, with twp pastors—Adam DePasquale and Shawn Winters—collaborating as lead pastors. Together, they share the traditional responsibilities of a senior pastor while guiding and advancing key areas of the church's ministry. Walnut Hill worship On June 12, 2011, Walnut Hill Community Church produced a live album entitled, "Revive Us: Songs of Prayer for New England." Recorded at the Strand Theater in Seymour, the evening was promoted as a live prayer and worship gathering as the church prepared to open its third campus. The album contains arrangements of hymns that have had influence in New England over the past few hundred years. Songs include Softly and Tenderly, My Faith Looks Up to Thee, Revive Us Again, I Surrender All and others. Walnut Hill is continuing to write and release original songs, available on streaming platforms. Former senior pastors Craig Mowrey, 2016-2025 (Lead Pastor) Brian Mowrey, 2016–2023 (Lead Pastor) Clive Calver, 2005–2016 Joel Eidsness, 1992–2005 Interim Period, 1991–1992 Doug Muraki, 1987–1991 Bill Wheat, 1982–1987 References External links Official website Walnut Hill Community Church media
The Woodhall School

The Woodhall School, located in Bethlehem, Connecticut, United States, is a small, independent boys' boarding school for students in grades 9-12. The school's individualized approach to teaching is intended for the unconventional learner, and utilizes multi-modal strategies to support learning. It was founded in 1983 by Sally Campbell Woodhall and Jonathan A. Woodhall, former Headmaster at the Oxford Academy. Sally Campbell Woodhall served in this role from 1983 to 2007; Matthew C. Woodhall became the second Head of School in 2008. Campus and facilities The campus is located on a 38-acre campus in Bethlehem, Connecticut. The school enrolls a maximum of 42 students per school year, with sixteen full-time teachers. The majority of the faculty live on campus. All students must complete 35 hours of service each school year, including theme-directed "Community Days". Activities Woodhall's mascot is the Phoenix and the school colors are maroon, gold, and white. Soccer, cross-country, basketball, lacrosse, wrestling, outdoor challenge, and drama are the sports and intramural activities offered. Woodhall is part of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC), Western Division, District 4. The drama program is considered part of the athletics and activities program. The Woodhall Players participate in The Seven Angels Theatre Halo Awards, a regional secondary school drama competition. Affiliations New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Connecticut Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) Small Boarding School Association Guide Star, Silver Member References External links Official website
Hartford 21

Hartford 21 is a 36-story, 134 m (440 ft) skyscraper located at 211 Trumbull Street in Downtown Hartford, Connecticut. It is the fourth tallest building in Hartford and the fifth in the state. Construction and structure Hartford 21 was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc. Construction began in June 2004 and was completed in 2006 by Turner Construction. It cost nearly $200 million to complete with $32.5 million coming in a grant from the state. There are 36 floors aboveground and three below. The building contains 262 luxury apartments as well as lower level retail and office space. It is the tallest building constructed in Hartford in the 21st century. History Hartford 21 was completed in 2006, and is purported to be the tallest residential tower between New York City and Boston. It is located adjacent to the PeoplesBank Arena, near where Asylum Street intersects Trumbull Street. See also List of tallest buildings in Hartford List of tallest buildings by U.S. state References
Rentschler Field

Rentschler Field (IATA: EHT, FAA LID: CT88) was an airport in East Hartford, Connecticut in use from 1933 to 1999. Originally a military facility, later a private corporate airport, it was decommissioned in 1999, after which the football stadium of the same name was built on the site. On November 22, 2021 it was announced that the undeveloped remainder of Rentschler Field, was acquired from Raytheon Technologies (formerly United Technologies, Pratt and Whitney) by Massachusetts development firm National Development. The property will offer businesses more than 280 acres for development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. From 1930 to 1939, the Chance Vought Aircraft Corporations's manufacturing facility was located here, as was the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company and the Hamilton Standard Propellers Corporation. History During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces First Air Force as a fighter base, providing coastal air defense over the Atlantic Ocean. After the war, the airfield was returned to civilian use and later, in the 1980s, was decommissioned. In the mid-1990s, the Six Flags corporation considered using the vacated acreage as the site for a new amusement park property, following community pushback in the southeastern Connecticut tourist area surrounding their plan to use property in Stonington, Connecticut under an agreement with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. City of East Hartford leadership supported the introduction of a Six Flags park to Rentschler Field, with key points including the site's large size, proximity to Hartford and central location near major thoroughfares Interstate 91 and Interstate 84, with the possibility to attract people from New York City and Boston, Massachusetts in addition to Southern New England. At the time, Six Flags was also considering alternate locations in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Then-governor John G. Rowland stated that he would support and enjoy a new Six Flags amusement park in East Hartford, but that the State of Connecticut would not provide additional funds to establish the project. In 1998, Six Flags parent company Time Warner Entertainment opted to sell the division to competitor Premier Parks, the owners of nearby Riverside Park (now known as Six Flags New England) in Agawam, Massachusetts. The deal extinguished the desire to construct an additional park in Connecticut. Rentschler Field was donated to the State of Connecticut by United Technologies in 1999. Re-developed as part of the State of Connecticut's "UConn 2000" initiative, part of the former airfield became the University of Connecticut's new football stadium, Pratt and Whitney Stadium with the football field remaining the honorary name Rentschler Field. Students and fans of the UConn team commonly refer to the new stadium as "The Rent", an homage to the original name. See also Rentschler Heliport Connecticut World War II Army Airfields References External links Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Central Connecticut Pratt & Whitney sells 300-acre former airfield to Massachusetts development company
Beth El Synagogue (Waterbury, Connecticut)

Beth El Synagogue is a historic synagogue at 359–375 Cooke Street in Waterbury, Connecticut. Built in 1929, it is the first synagogue in the state to be built in the Byzantine Revival style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 for its architecture. Originally built for a Conservative congregation, it is now home to Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel, a yeshiva. Architecture and building history The former Beth El Synagogue stands in a mainly residential area north of downtown Waterbury, on the west side of Cooke Street at its junction with Sterling Street. It is a domed Byzantine Revival-style building, with broad steps leading to a triple entrance on the front facade, which is topped by a carved representation of the Decalogue. The dome is finished in gold, and is topped by a ring of acanthus cresting and a finial. The interior sanctuary space is open to the dome, and has wooden pews divided by three aisles. The front section functions as a small stage, with a proscenium arch and angled walls. The synagogue was built in the 1920s by the Conservative Beth El Congregation, which was organized c. 1920 and formerly had a synagogue on Park Place. The original design was by architect Nathan Myers, but interior work proceeded slowly after the main construction as financing permitted. The interior finishes in the sanctuary, including detailing in paneling of the bimah, were completed in the 1950s to designs by Waterbury architect Joseph Stein. The building remained with the Beth El congregation until 2001, when the shrinking congregation sold the building and moved to Southbury. The building was one of fifteen Connecticut synagogues added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and 1996 in response to an unprecedented multiple submission, nominating nineteen synagogues. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut References External links Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel website
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue (Hartford, Connecticut)

Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue is an historic former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 370 Garden Street, Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. Founded in 1905, the congregation built the Romanesque Revival temple on Garden Street in 1921–22. The congregation merged with the Ateres Kneset Israel congregation in 1962 to form the United Synagogue of Greater Hartford, and moved to new quarters in West Hartford. The congregation's building was vacated and during the 1980s converted into a Christian church, called the Greater Refuge Church of Christ. This former synagogue, now church, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as part of a multiple property listing of fifteen historic synagogues in Connecticut. Architecture and history The former Beth Hamedrash Hagodol building is located in Hartford's Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, on the east side of Garden Street north of Albany Avenue (United States Route 44). It is a brick building, two stories in height, with Romanesque styling. Its front facade has slightly projecting square corner towers, with paired narrow round-arch windows on each level. Stairs rise in between the towers to three entrances, each set in a rounded arch. On the second level above the entrances is a central circular window with Star of David tracery at its center, with flanking paired round-arch windows. The congregation was established in 1905 on Hartford's East Side, originally meeting in a space on Wooster Street. In 1921 it merged with Sharah Torah, another Orthodox congregation, and the combination built this synagogue in 1922 to be nearer the homes of its congregants. The building was designed by Julius Berenson and Jacob Moses, Jewish architects active in Hartford. It was the first of two synagogues they are known to have designed; the other was located on Greenfield Street. The congregation was again merged with other Orthodox congregations in the 1960s, which established the United Synagogue of Greater Hartford in West Hartford. The former Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue building was one of fifteen Connecticut synagogues added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and 1996 in response to an unprecedented multiple submission, nominating nineteen synagogues. This building is now owned by the Greater Refuge Church of Christ. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References External links Official website of the Greater Refuge Church of Christ
Chevry Lomday Mishnayes Synagogue

Chevry Lomday Mishnayes Synagogue is a historic former synagogue building at 148-150 Bedford Street in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. Built in 1924, it is unusual for an ecclesiastical structure in that its design appears to be based on that of an apartment house. It housed an Orthodox Jewish congregation until 1963, and now houses the local House of God Church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Description and history The former Chevry Lomday Mishnayes Synagogue stands in Hartford's Clay-Arsenal neighborhood north of the downtown, at the southeast corner of Mather and Bedford Streets. It is a masonry structure, built out of red brick with trim of orange and yellow brick. It is three stories in height, with a shallow-pitch gabled roof. Upper story windows are set in round-arch openings, framed by soldier bricks; the windows on the front facade second story have keystones. On the front facade there are round windows at the center of the second and third floors; the second floor window has been filled with a panel housing a cross, while the third floor window shows a Star of David. Chevry Lomday Mishnayes ("Society for Study of Mishnah"), an Orthodox Jewish congregation, was organized in 1918, and met in a variety of quarters before this synagogue was built in 1924. It has as its shell a basic three-story apartment house design, with its principal modification the shapes of the second and third-floor windows. The congregation remained here until 1963, when it moved to a private residence. It has since been occupied by Christian groups, most recently the House of God. The building was one of fifteen Connecticut synagogues added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and 1996 in response to an unprecedented multiple submission, nominating nineteen synagogues. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut Notes References
Enfield Town Meetinghouse

The Enfield Town Meetinghouse is a historic Greek Revival style meeting house located on Enfield Street at South Road in Enfield, Connecticut. Completed in 1775 and moved and restyled in 1848, it hosted the municipal government until the 1920s. Now managed by the local historical society as a museum, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Description and history The Enfield Town Meetinghouse occupies a prominent location in the historic town center of Enfield, on the west side of Enfield Street (United States Route 5) just north of its junction with South Street, and across the street from the fourth building used by the Enfield Congregational Church. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof, and clapboarded exterior. It is set on a brick foundation. The front facade is its most distinguished feature, resembling a Greek temple portico with four fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature and fully pedimented gable. There are three entrances, the outer two identical single-leaf doorways topped by transom windows and framed by Greek Revival pilasters and corniced entablature. The center entrance is a double-leaf entry with similar surround but no transom. The meetinghouse was built in 1773-74 by a local builder named Isaac Kirby, and was based on a similar building in East Windsor. Originally located across the street, it was moved to its present location in 1848, at which time its Greek Revival features were also added. It served as the community's town hall and principal meeting place until the 1920s, after which it served as a community meeting space, hosting dances, parties, and other events. It is now maintained by the local historical society as a museum. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut References External links Enfield Historical Society - Old Town Hall Museum
Lake Compounce Carousel

Lake Compounce Carousel is a historic carousel at Lake Compounce amusement park in Southington, Connecticut. It was designed by Charles I. D. Looff and built around 1890. A rare surviving operational Looff carousel, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Description and history Lake Compounce Carousel is located on the southern portion of the amusement park grounds, separated from the northern shore of Lake Compounce by a water slide and the Starlight Theater. The carousel is housed in a 12-sided wooden structure topped by a scallop-shingled roof with a monitor center and a central cupola. The roof is supported by wooden posts set on piers, with balustrades between the piers. The carousel has a platform 45 feet (14 m) in diameter, with 18 rows of riding positions. 16 of these positions consist of horse figures, three abreast. Of the other two, two of the three positions are taken up by a stationary chariot, and in one of those, the third position is occupied by a goat. The horses are each uniquely painted, and are set in a variety of poses and facial expressions. The decorative elements of the platform assembly are original. The carousel was built around 1890 at the Charles Looff factory in Riverside, Rhode Island. It was originally located at Savin Rock Amusement Park in West Haven, Connecticut, and was moved to Lake Compounce in 1911. At that time it was also modified by Tim Murphy to include a recently designed mechanism for making the horses go up and down. See also Amusement rides on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places listings in Southington, Connecticut References External links Charles I.E. Looff Carousel at Lake Compounce, Bristol, Connecticut – YouTube
Lake Quassapaug

Lake Quassapaug is a 296-acre (120 ha) reservoir located in Middlebury, Connecticut. It is home to Quassy Amusement Park. The lake also hosts six private outing clubs, including the Lake Quassapaug Outing Club and the Quassapaug Sailing Center. The Lake Quassapaug Association (LQA) manages the reservation of the lake and is composed of interested individuals, groups, and property owners on the lakefront. The LQA was formed in 2012 to preserve the lake’s high water quality and promote responsible enjoyment of the lake. References
Mashamoquet Brook State Park

Mashamoquet Brook State Park ( mash-MUH-kit) is a public recreation area in the town of Pomfret, Connecticut. Notable features of the state park include the Wolf Den national historic site, the Brayton Grist Mill, and the Table Rock and Indian Chair natural stone formations. The state park offers facilities for camping, swimming, fishing, and picnicking. It is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. History Mashamoquet Brook first came to the attention of the State Park Commission when former Pomfret resident Sarah Fay donated eleven and a half acres of the stream's hemlock-lined gorge to the state in 1918. In 1925, that parcel was combined with the Wolf Den, site of Israel Putnam's legendary wolf slaying, which the Daughters of the American Revolution had purchased in 1899. The donation of the Hotchkins Wolf Den Farm parcel in 1957 together with other purchases and gifts brought the park to its present size of over 900 acres. References External links Mashamoquet Brook State Park Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Mashamoquet Brook State Park Map Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Osborn Correctional Institution

The Osborn Correctional Institution (OCI), formerly known as the Connecticut Correctional Institution – Somers, is a medium-security state prison that includes a high-security mental health unit for men of the Connecticut Department of Correction located in Somers, Connecticut. It has capacity of 1900 inmates, making it amongst the largest prisons in the state and one of the oldest operational facilities in Connecticut. It housed the state's execution chamber until 2015, when capital punishment was declared unconstitutional. It also housed male death row inmates until 1995 when they were transferred to the nearby Northern Correctional Institution. History OCI was opened in November 1963 as a replacement for the Wethersfield State Prison, and was originally the state's maximum-security prison until 1994 when it was changed to become a medium-security prison. Notable inmates Michael Bruce Ross, a convicted serial killer, was executed by lethal injection on May 13, 2005. He was the only person executed in Connecticut and all of New England after capital punishment was reinstated. Ross was voluntarily executed after waiving his appeals. Francis Clifford Smith, the oldest living and longest serving inmate in both Connecticut and U.S history, as well as the second longest serving inmate in world history. References
Peoples State Forest Nature Museum

The Peoples State Forest Nature Museum is a state-run museum on Greenwood Road in the Peoples State Forest in Barkhamsted, Connecticut. It features displays on forestry, plants and animals native to Connecticut, local history, rocks and minerals, and insects. The museum is open seasonally from Friday through Monday. The rustic style building was constructed in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Building history The Peoples State Forest Nature Museum is located in the southern part of Peoples State Forest, which is located on the east side of the West Branch Farmington River. The museum is set in a clearing on the west side of Greenwood Road, a forest road providing vehicular access to the forest's interior. It is a single-story structure, built mainly out of rubblestone, with a bellcast gabled roof covered in wooden shingles. The main facade is oriented to the southwest, with large window openings flanking the main entrance. A small stone ell extends to the right, partly sandwiching a rubblestone chimney. The interior of the museum is finished with a bluestone floor, chestnut paneling on the walls, and exposed queenpost truss timber framing with wrought iron strapping for the roof. The museum was built in 1934-35 by a crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps based across the river in American Legion State Forest, and was formally dedicated by Governor Wilbur Cross in 1935. It closed in the early 1950s, and was reopened in 1992 after standing unused for many years. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut References External links Peoples State Forest Nature Museum