Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum
Experience Tobacco History.
The Connecticut Valley Agricultural Museum is located in the Beautiful 473 acre Northwest Park, Windsor Connecticut. Please feel free to visit us during our operating hours, or make an appointment for a visit. Requests for alternate visiting times are welcome and the museum will do its best to accommodate whatever size group will be visiting.
The Connecticut Valley Agricultural Museum is dedicated to preserving the agricultural history of the agricultural industry in Connecticut. The museum contains many artifacts in the archives building related to the agricultural industry in Connecticut.The museum also houses a fantastic collection of antique farm equipment used in the growing of shade and broadleaf here in the Connecticut River Valley. This equipment is located in a beautifully restored shed located next to the archives building.
The first shade tent for growing shade was put up on River Street in Windsor in 1900. Since then, the Connecticut River Valley has been recognized as producing the finest Wrapper in the world!
Come visit the museum and learn the history of the most important agricultural crop ever grown in Connecticut!
Directions
The museum is located in Windsor, Connecticut, USA.
From Interstate 91 heading north, take Exit 38.
From Interstate 91 heading south, take Exit 38A.
Turn right at the exit on to Poquonock Avenue (Route 75).
Go about 1.5 miles and turn left on to Prospect Hill Rd.
Turn right at the second traffic circle on to Lang Road
Continue up Lang Road to the parking lot on the left hand side.
There is ample parking there.
The first, large public parking lot is gravel. Please park in the main parking lot and walk to the museum buildings via a marked path past the pond.
The office is in the John E. Luddy Archive building and the main exhibit is in the Gordon S. Taylor Tobacco Shed Museum.
The second parking location, past the round-about,
is for Seniors and Handicap Parking only.
That parking lot is next to the Nature Center, a large red tobacco shed with tall, thin windows. Handicap spots are designated and you may also park in the spots marked “Senior or Permit Parking”
It is short walk to the Museum buildings. The wide path is hard-packed gravel. If even closer parking or drop-off is needed, we will accommodate that.
NO PARKING ON THE GRASS OR BESIDE THE MUSEUM BUILDINGS
