The Perkins Hotel, 1908

Our Team

Our amazing team of part-time volunteers are committed to helping others. We take our convictions and turn them into action. Our volunteers have spent countless hours creating a museum of life in Bethany in our main building. Many more hours have been spent in organizing our archives of records, photographs, diaries and other memorabilia pertaining to the people of Bethany through the years.

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Our History

The Bethany Historical Society was incorporated on August 2, 1993. Our main building, housing our archives and museum, is located at the former Bethany Town Hall at 512 Amity Road, built in 1914, and now known as the Stanley Downs Memorial Building to commemorate a former First Selectman of that name.

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Our Mission

The mission of the BHS is two-fold: to preserve the records and history of Bethany, Connecticut and to educate the general public about Bethany’s rich rural history.

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