According to the sign on the house at 62 East Main Street in Mystic, the residence was built in 1892 for Allen Avery [possibly Allen Avery (1838-1915)?] by John Heath. It also lists a later owner, Henry S. Miner, “ships carpenter.”
The house at 381 Wolcott Hill Road in Wethersfield is believed to have been built by Maj. Samuel Wolcott about 1750. The Wolcott Coat of Arms are painted on a panel over the mantel in the house’s north parlor. A later resident was Elisha Wolcott (1755-1827), a hat maker. He married Mary Welles in 1775 and soon after served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Hanmer’s company As related in Vol. I of Henry R. Stiles’ History of Ancient Wethersfield (1904):
Elisha Wolcott, gt-gd-son of Samuel Wolcott 2nd, after some service in the army at New York in the summer and autumn of 1776, is said, at Gen. Washington’s suggestion, to have returned to his home in Wethersfield for the purpose of making hats for the soldiers — and one of the “hat blocks” used by him in this manufacture, at the old Samuel Wolcott (present Bourne) house, is still in possession of his descendants.—Letter of Mrs. J. W. Griswold.
The house at 1169 Long Hill Road in Guilford was built in 1838 for James Stone Loper (1802-1888). It features a large Greek Revival doorway and has a large addition, built c. 1840.
The Gothic Revival house at 69 East Main Street in Clinton was built c. 1870. It is now home to Milone Chiropractic Center.
The precise construction date for the house at 9 West Simsbury Road in Canton is uncertain, but town Assessor’s records give it a date of 1820. The house once retained its original stone sink, with a spout to drain the water outside. There was also once a small building on the northwest side of the house that was used as an office by the property’s owner, Dr. Benjamin Weed, Jr. (1789-1846). A surgeon in the War of 1812, Dr. Weed practiced medicine and was also the first postmaster to be appointed (in 1826) for what was then called New Canton. He also served as Justice of the Peace. He moved to Bloomington, now Muscatine, Iowa in 1839 with other members of his family.
The house at 87 Chaplin Street in Chaplin has been variously dated to 1825, 1832, 1855 and 1865. It was once the home of E. W. Day. Since the house at 93 Chaplin Street, on the other side of Tower Hill Road, was home to Deacon Darius Knight, the intersection was known as Knight and Day corner.
Built in 1880, the house at 28 Pearl Street in Mystic was originally the home of Parmenas Avery (1842-1886), a veteran of the Civil War who was a plumber/tinsmith and served as Mystic River postmaster and in the state General Assembly in 1882. In the collections of the Mystic River Historical Society is an invitation to a reception held at the new house the evening of Thursday, December 22, 1880.
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