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Stanley-Whitman House Receives 2025 Award of Merit from the Connecticut League of Museums

We are pleased to share that Stanley-Whitman House, in partnership with Farmington High School, has been honored with a 2025 Award of Merit from the Connecticut League of Museums for the Tunxis Land and Water Memory Tour.

This collaborative program reimagined the ninth-grade history field trip for Farmington High School. Over three days, 251 students explored six sites, three at Stanley-Whitman House and three throughout the community (Cowles Parcel/Nancy Conklin Nature Trail, Riverside Cemetery, and the Lewis Walpole Library), engaging directly with land deeds, maps, foodways, historic structures, rivers, and cemeteries. By incorporating Indigenous sources and primary research into place-based education, the tour deepened student understanding of the relationship between people, land, and water in Farmington’s history.

The committee was "impressed by the ways this collaborative project engaged with the land and environment beyond the walls of the museum and the high school, bringing Indigenous sources and primary research together with place-based education."