Fairfield County, Connecticut

Danbury Museum & Historical Society

Late 18th- and early 19th-century furnishings in the John and Mary Rider House (1785). Local hatting industry exhibits in John Dodd Shop (1790). Research library, gift shop. Birthplace (5 Mountainville Rd., c.1829)

Danbury, CT Museums

Ridgefield Playhouse

A performing art center providing live musical and dance performances, Arts in Education, lecture series, children?

Ridgefield, CT Arts

Vineyard Garden Cottage

Located on a 160

Sandy Hook, CT Bed and Breakfasts

Ogden House & Gardens

18th-century saltbox farmhouse furnished to portray the lives of its Revolutionary War-era inhabitants;

Fairfield, CT Historic Farmhouses

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (c.1864)

America's first chateau; 62-room Victorian palace with stenciled walls, inlaid woodwork and skylit rotunda;

Norwalk, CT Museums

Spirit of America

One-hour narrated cruise down the Norwalk River and Harbor and around the Norwalk Island aboard the Spirit of America, a 26

Norwalk, CT Cruises

Hilton Garden Inn Shelton

142 units (three suites with Jacuzzi)

Shelton, CT Lodging

Black Rock Art Center

Bridgeport, CT Arts

Homestead Studio Suites Hotel

140

Shelton, CT Lodging

Ridgefield Golf Course

Ridgefield, CT Golf Courses

Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield

Natural history exhibits, compound for non-releasable hawks and owls, reference library and shop in nature center. Adjacent 160-acre Larsen Sanctuary includes 6

Fairfield, CT Arts

DELAMAR Greenwich Harbor

Luxury boutique hotel with 83 rooms (nine suites; some with fireplace and balcony)

Greenwich, CT Harbors