Mystic River Historical Society

Mystic River Historical Society

74 High Street

P. O. Box 245

Mystic, CT 06355

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Museum Association

Welcome to the Mystic River Historical Society.

MRHS is located in Mystic, Connecticut, centered around the famous Mystic Bridge which has connected the towns of Groton and Stonington for nearly 200 years. We are some 400 strong and have been dedicated to preserving and promoting the historical traditions of the greater Mystic area since 1973. We're a totally volunteer organization offering a wide variety of opportunities for those who are willing and able to contribute time and energy.

Join Us Today!

When you join MRHS, you become part of an active organization that welcomes your involvement.

Benefits include:
- Free monthly programs with speakers of interest (from September to May);
- Access to MRHS archives, including hundreds of documents, photographs, books and maps;
- Monthly newsletter with news of MRHS activities and articles of interest;
- Special events including bus trips, house tours, walking tours, appraisal days, and our annual pot-luck supper.

Your membership supports the on-going preservation of our collection and our property. It also makes available to the public free lectures on topics of historic interest.

Please note that MRHS has no affiliation with the Town of Groton's Historic District Commission, and does not regulate any building projects.

Click here
to read the current issue of our monthly newsletter, Portersville Press (.pdf). Click here
to review past issues
of Portersville Press (.pdf).
Click here
for a downloadable, printable version
of Mystic Riverside Walking Adventure: Self-guided History
of Gravel Street, Mystic (.pdf).

This beautiful poster of artwork
from Colors of Mystic is available from The Finer Line Gallery
in downtown Mystic.
The giclee print alone is $125.
Special framing packages are available.
20% of all print sales and 10% of all framing sales benefit MRHS.

Introducing
our newest publication!

Colors of Mystic

Designed and Illustrated
by Ashley Halsey

Available at
Mystic & Noank Library,
Bank Square Books, and MRHS.
Call 860-536-4779 or email info@mystichistory.org
for more information
or to order your copy!

$14.95

Visit Our Collections Exhibit

Images from our extensive collection of vintage photographs

Local scenes by local photographers

This website is hosted by
Mystic Net Marketing, Inc.

This website was developed
and is maintained
using Microsoft Front Page 2003.

Please contact webmaster@mystichistory.org
with any technical problems.

Other Titles Available

"A Kayaker's Guide
to the Mystic River
and Its History"

Available from MRHS
536-4779
$7 non-members
$5 members
$1 postage & handling

"Mystic:
An American Journey"

Bank Square Books
536-3795, $15
---------
MRHS, 536-4779, $10,
(+$5 s/h for mail order)

"Images of Mystic"

MRHS
Bank Square Books
Mystic & Noank Library
Mystic Seaport Book Store
Fort Hill Pharmacy
Groton Public Library
$19.99

You may also be interested to note that the blue-ish green color used to trim this website is referred to within MRHS as "MRHS Green" and matches closely the specially formulated color used to trim the Society's properties, the Downes Building and Portersville Academy.

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