Avon's New History Museum Is Right On Schedule
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Avon's New History Museum Is Right On Schedule With the first phase of creating the Avon History Museum done, a sneak peak is planned for Nov. 17 and a grand opening is set for July 2025.Avon Historical Society
AVON, CT — The new Avon History Museum is really taking shape these days, with a special sneak peak event slated for later this month and a grand opening slated for next summer.
Phase One of the Avon Historical Society's personalized brick paver patio at the museum site is now complete with "a beautiful new pergola over the top," wrote the Avon Historical Society.
Meanwhile, benches and a little free library will be added in the spring. Phase Two is aiming to add more engraved bricks early next summer.
The new patio and pergola are in place just in time for a preview opening for the public of the new museum project on Sunday, Nov. 17, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The museum is located at 8 E. Main St. in the true and historic center of Avon.
Parking is available off Enford Street behind the building or at the post office.
In partnership with the Town of Avon, the Avon Historical Society is renovating the 201-year-old, one-room schoolhouse.
Future funds raised will be used for the interior exhibit curation, build and installation.
The schoolhouse was originally built in the geographic center of Avon on Country Club Road where the Avon Free Public Library stands today.
For 115 years, from 1823-1938, students of West Avon were educated in this schoolhouse.
It was moved to its current location in 1985 directly over the site of the original 19th century Farmington Canal which crossed Route 44 running north and south.
To commemorate two centuries of the oldest building owned by the Town of Avon, the Historical Society approached the Town six years ago about establishing a state-of-the-art museum in the footprint of the schoolhouse.
The Town of Avon and the Avon Historical Society will host a public open house of the Avon History Museum on Friday, July 4, 2025.
Orders for engraved bricks can be made online via this link or by requesting an order form at 860-678-7621.
