Mystic house tour will give inside look at history

Carol W. Kimball

Mystic's octagon house
Mystic house tour, "A Stop in Time"
Mystic River Historical Society's 350th anniversary
Minor, Burrows, Packer, Fish, Denison, Stark, Wolfe, Morgan and Wheeler houses

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New London, CT.

09/27/2004

Carol W. Kimball

The Mystic River Historical Society's 350th anniversary of Mystic's settlement hosts a house tour titled "A Stop in Time" and the chosen houses represent many of the first families. The date of 1654 as the beginning of Mystic is based on the diary kept by dairy farmer Thomas Minor. Early family names include Minor, Burrows, Packer, Fish, Denison, Stark, Wolfe, Morgan and Wheeler and thier homes will be part of the tour. But the most unusual is the octagon house built in 1850 by Albert Stark, a wealthy merchant who believed, along with Dr. Orson Fuller, that such a home was beneficial to the health and welfare of its dwellers.

Minor,Thomas
Minors
Burrows
Packer
Fish
Denison
Stark
Wolfe
Morgan
Wheeler
Fish, John
Denison, George (Capt.)
Fish, Alden
Fish, Nathan Gallup (Capt.)
Wolfe, Thomas
Wolfe, Mary Fish
Stark, Albert
Fuller, Orson (Dr.)
Wheeler, William (Capt.)
Spicer, Elishu (Capt.)
Packer, Thomas E.
Morgan, Elijah

Mystic River Historical Society (350th anniversary)
Mystic house tour titled "A Stop in Time"
octagon house