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The Hyland House Museum

Our mission is to share Guilford's rich colonial history and to inspire ongoing stewardship of that legacy.

  • Hyland House Home
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  • Become a Supporter
    • Donate
    • Membership
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  • Visit the House
    • Hours & Admission
    • Guilford, Connecticut
    • Hyland House Virtual Tour
  • The Garden
    • The Apothecary Rose
    • Our Garden Plants
  • Early Guilford Days
    • Virtual Early Guilford Days
    • Workshops
    • Costume Counsel
  • At Home Activities
    • Bake a Historical Election Cake
    • Make your own Leather Wallet
    • Make your own Silhouette Portrait
    • Bind Your Own Notebook
    • Martha Washington’s Great Cake
    • Sew a Historical “Huswife”
    • Build a Lucet Tool and Braid Cords
    • Herb Memory Card Game
    • Nine Men Morris Game
    • Make your own Button Whirligig
    • Weaving a Coaster
    • Making an Aluminum Lantern
    • The Flying Circle – Make your Own Game of Graces
    • Making and Using a Tape Loom
  • Learn Our Story
    • Museum Collection – Objects of Interest
      • Silhouette
      • The “Huswife” – a colonial travel sewing kit
      • Custom Curtains with a History
      • Fire Bucket
      • 18th Century Stays
      • Tape Loom
    • Diptheria Epidemic in 1736 
    • Hyland House History
    • Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society
    • A Witness Stone for Candace
    • Genealogy of Hyland House Residents
    • Architectural History
  • Board of Directors & Docents

What’s On

2026 Calendar of Events

Early Guilford Days

Picture Gallery of Previous Events

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