In this tour you will discover how Hebron’s center developed from a place where roads met to a thriving village and most prosperous town in Tolland County by the year 1800. Unfortunately, much of Hebron’s colonial past has been replaced by more recent developments. Even so, Church Street has remained a neighborhood that records the changes from first settlement to today.

In this tour you will have a chance to do the following:

1. Stop 1—Intersection of Routes 85 / 66 Traffic Light—Understand how the location of the Congregational Meetinghouse determined a town’s center in the colonial period.
   
2. Stop 2 --Fuller’s Tavern (no longer standing)– Learn about the important role taverns had to play in a New England town
   
3. Stop 3 - 1 West Main Street – Dutton House - View one of Hebron’s first Federal mansion houses featuring a central hallway.
   
4. Stop 4 - Post House site (no longer standing) - Imagine what life must have been like for young Chinese students sent to America to learn about western technology.
   
5. Stop 5 - War Memorial –explore how once site can have many different histories.
6. Stop 6 - 10 Church Street - United Brethren of Hebron Synagogue - Learn about Hebron’s Jewish farmers
   
7. Stop 7-18 Church Street – Amos Bassett House - Find out about the life of one of Hebron’s early 19th century ministers
   
8. Stop 8 -17 Church Street –Pomprowicz House - compare how home owners in Hebron’s center “borrowed” details from their neighbors’ houses to make their house a home.
   
9. Stop 9 - 22 Church Street - Governor Peters’ House - Learn about one of Hebron’s most distinguished citizens
   
10. Stop 10 - 25 Church Street Cheseborough-Keefe House - understand how life in Hebron center was different from living on a farm
    
11. Stop 11 - St. Peters Church and Graveyard - discover how religion brought Hebron people together and also split them apart.
    
12. Conclusion