The Noah Webster House By Claudia
If you are interested to know about the United States History, you have to visit this place. You will do a trip to the past of this country and you will learn about Noah Webster, who was one of the founding fathers. The Noah Webster House is a time machine and It offers a fun-packed adventures for everyone, it doesn’t matter your age. This is an amazing experience. Please don’t lose this opportunity.
How can you get there?
Noah Webster’s House is located one mile north of I-84 east or west from exit 41. You just have to follow the signs. Their address is 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107 USA.
Hours
Noah Webster’s House is opened from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 pm and is closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays and major holidays.
If you want to take the tour, you have to arrive before 3:00 p.m. Because the tour takes maybe one hour.
Parking information
Noah Webster’s house has limited parking but also you can park on South Main Street and Crestwood Rd.
Fares
Adults pay $7
AAA cardholders and Senior Citizens pay 5$.
Students 6 through 18 pay 4$.
College with a valid ID pay 4$.
Age 5 and younger don’t have to pay.
Museum members don’t have to pay.
If you need more information, you can call there at 860-521-6362
If you are interested to know about the United States History, you have to visit this place. You will do a trip to the past of this country and you will learn about Noah Webster, who was one of the founding fathers. The Noah Webster House is a time machine and It offers a fun-packed adventures for everyone, it doesn’t matter your age. This is an amazing experience. Please don’t lose this opportunity.
How can you get there?
Noah Webster’s House is located one mile north of I-84 east or west from exit 41. You just have to follow the signs. Their address is 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107 USA.
Hours
Noah Webster’s House is opened from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 pm and is closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays and major holidays.
If you want to take the tour, you have to arrive before 3:00 p.m. Because the tour takes maybe one hour.
Parking information
Noah Webster’s house has limited parking but also you can park on South Main Street and Crestwood Rd.
Fares
Adults pay $7
AAA cardholders and Senior Citizens pay 5$.
Students 6 through 18 pay 4$.
College with a valid ID pay 4$.
Age 5 and younger don’t have to pay.
Museum members don’t have to pay.
If you need more information, you can call there at 860-521-6362
About Noah and His House by Nella
Noah Webster was born in West Hartford from a farmer family, his parents sent him to school at Yale in New Haven to study. He graduated as a teacher.He noticed that the American students were using the books from England and they were pledging their allegiance to the King and that the spelling of the words were different from one teacher to another. He believed that the Americans should learn from American books and to spell the words all the same so he started writing words with the definitions and spelling creating the ‘’A Grammatical Institute of the English Language’’ the first American Dictionary .
He lived in New Haven with his wife Rebecca Greenleaf then moved to Amherst,Massachusetts where he helped to found Amherst College. Later, he moved back to New Haven.
The West Hartford family house still exist. The house has been kept originally as it was with the fireplaces, the lavatory ,the beds, the tools that they were using for their daily chores. We could still see the spinning wheel that they used for making the yarn from the sheep wool and the loom for weaving the material for making the clothes .they were using the fibers of a plant called flax for extract the material called ‘’Linen’’( is still used ). I saw things that were familiar to me from my own country like the iron for pressing the clothes, the sifter for the flours, the dried plants for the spices. .A lot of things have been improved but we still use the same procedure to get the same result.
Noah Webster was born in West Hartford from a farmer family, his parents sent him to school at Yale in New Haven to study. He graduated as a teacher.He noticed that the American students were using the books from England and they were pledging their allegiance to the King and that the spelling of the words were different from one teacher to another. He believed that the Americans should learn from American books and to spell the words all the same so he started writing words with the definitions and spelling creating the ‘’A Grammatical Institute of the English Language’’ the first American Dictionary .
He lived in New Haven with his wife Rebecca Greenleaf then moved to Amherst,Massachusetts where he helped to found Amherst College. Later, he moved back to New Haven.
The West Hartford family house still exist. The house has been kept originally as it was with the fireplaces, the lavatory ,the beds, the tools that they were using for their daily chores. We could still see the spinning wheel that they used for making the yarn from the sheep wool and the loom for weaving the material for making the clothes .they were using the fibers of a plant called flax for extract the material called ‘’Linen’’( is still used ). I saw things that were familiar to me from my own country like the iron for pressing the clothes, the sifter for the flours, the dried plants for the spices. .A lot of things have been improved but we still use the same procedure to get the same result.
Student Experiences
By Marie
What was interesting for me was the way they made wool from sheep, according to the guide's explanation. First, they could take a sheep in the water before they had a wool. Then, they could cut the wool from the sheep. What’s more they were able to make their clothes with a loom to have a wool. They also had a flax from a plant to make a linen.
By Ranju
We had a trip on october 30th to visit Noah Webster’s house in West Hartford. We went by school bus. It took 25 minutes to get there. It was nice trip. We were divided into five groups. We had a guide who gave us information about Noah’s life and what people did at that time. We took a tour room to room. We saw Noah’s house. The guide told us he had 90 acres all total land. We saw fireplace; they cooked over the fire. They had lot of iron pot with hand and stand. On that time people preserve their foods by hang on the wall with string to dry. Some foods they put in the barrel also. People used all part of animals.They ate meat for fat they used for candle. We saw spoon made by cow’s horns. I felt the life was hard and busy everyday. The boys and girls had separate work. If the family had only boys they traded chores with other family for only the day time. Every bed had fireplace and their work in there too. Girls’ room had wool and spinwheel. Boys had loom. They made cloth by themselves. They made clothes from flax seed plant. In that time clothes were only white color because it was hard to make other colors. We learned If you want to make red small patch you should go Mexico and bought 30.000 ladybug.It was not possible to do easilly. They cooked foods once a week. They washed their clothes in hot water in the big pot and stir with big long fork. They grew food on their farm.
By Osvaldo
In Noah Webster’s House in West Hartford I saw how the people lived in the 17 hundreds. How Mr. Webster was when he wrote the first Dictionary. In the house you can see many old things around such as old kitchen, and how they prepare the food, and how they made their own tools. When I went to M.r Webster’s room I saw how they made the bed warm when they went to sleep. In the same room he wrote the dictionary. He took 27 years to finish. When I went upstairs I saw how they made wool to use, and different things like made clothes for sale because in the winter the Webster family didn’t work in the farm.
By Marie
What was interesting for me was the way they made wool from sheep, according to the guide's explanation. First, they could take a sheep in the water before they had a wool. Then, they could cut the wool from the sheep. What’s more they were able to make their clothes with a loom to have a wool. They also had a flax from a plant to make a linen.
By Ranju
We had a trip on october 30th to visit Noah Webster’s house in West Hartford. We went by school bus. It took 25 minutes to get there. It was nice trip. We were divided into five groups. We had a guide who gave us information about Noah’s life and what people did at that time. We took a tour room to room. We saw Noah’s house. The guide told us he had 90 acres all total land. We saw fireplace; they cooked over the fire. They had lot of iron pot with hand and stand. On that time people preserve their foods by hang on the wall with string to dry. Some foods they put in the barrel also. People used all part of animals.They ate meat for fat they used for candle. We saw spoon made by cow’s horns. I felt the life was hard and busy everyday. The boys and girls had separate work. If the family had only boys they traded chores with other family for only the day time. Every bed had fireplace and their work in there too. Girls’ room had wool and spinwheel. Boys had loom. They made cloth by themselves. They made clothes from flax seed plant. In that time clothes were only white color because it was hard to make other colors. We learned If you want to make red small patch you should go Mexico and bought 30.000 ladybug.It was not possible to do easilly. They cooked foods once a week. They washed their clothes in hot water in the big pot and stir with big long fork. They grew food on their farm.
By Osvaldo
In Noah Webster’s House in West Hartford I saw how the people lived in the 17 hundreds. How Mr. Webster was when he wrote the first Dictionary. In the house you can see many old things around such as old kitchen, and how they prepare the food, and how they made their own tools. When I went to M.r Webster’s room I saw how they made the bed warm when they went to sleep. In the same room he wrote the dictionary. He took 27 years to finish. When I went upstairs I saw how they made wool to use, and different things like made clothes for sale because in the winter the Webster family didn’t work in the farm.
By Emilia
On October 31st 2013 we visited The Noah Webster’s House in West Hartford, CT . The visit in this museum was like a journey into the past. We learned a lot about Noah Webster and we saw typical New England’s house of an average colonial family in the 1700s. The Museum is the birthplace of the author of an American Dictionary of the English Language. The house is a very traditional from the mid 1700s. Like most colonists, Noah Webster lived on the farm. Before he left home for Yale College the house had two rooms up and two rooms down. They used to share bedrooms between several family members. The house was around 90-acres of land. During our house tour we experienced part of America’s history. The museum staff demonstrated 18-th century life and culture. As we could see, the colonists worked hard to get goods and services needed to live comfortably. A lot of hard work had to be done by young children. They use to teach 5 years old kids how to work. The staff used reproduction artifacts to demonstrate the life-style at that time by show the weaving and spun wool. in colonials days, women trained young girls to be wives and mothers. Girls helped around the house. They helped with cooking, washing, cleaning, gardening and caring children . Girls could not go to college in the 18th-century in U.S. Boys learned by helping men with chores on the farm. They caring animals and a land, split wood. They also planted and cared a harvest. Most boys grew up to farmland work. Some, like a Noah, went to college to study.After growing up on the farm and study at Yale College, Noah Webster - one of the Americans’ heros - spent much of his life trying to improve education. He wrote America’s First Dictionary and started important school reforms for better future. The Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society West in Hartford is a magnificent thank for Noah Webster’s activity, and this is a great place come to know late 18th-century New England’s life.
On October 31st 2013 we visited The Noah Webster’s House in West Hartford, CT . The visit in this museum was like a journey into the past. We learned a lot about Noah Webster and we saw typical New England’s house of an average colonial family in the 1700s. The Museum is the birthplace of the author of an American Dictionary of the English Language. The house is a very traditional from the mid 1700s. Like most colonists, Noah Webster lived on the farm. Before he left home for Yale College the house had two rooms up and two rooms down. They used to share bedrooms between several family members. The house was around 90-acres of land. During our house tour we experienced part of America’s history. The museum staff demonstrated 18-th century life and culture. As we could see, the colonists worked hard to get goods and services needed to live comfortably. A lot of hard work had to be done by young children. They use to teach 5 years old kids how to work. The staff used reproduction artifacts to demonstrate the life-style at that time by show the weaving and spun wool. in colonials days, women trained young girls to be wives and mothers. Girls helped around the house. They helped with cooking, washing, cleaning, gardening and caring children . Girls could not go to college in the 18th-century in U.S. Boys learned by helping men with chores on the farm. They caring animals and a land, split wood. They also planted and cared a harvest. Most boys grew up to farmland work. Some, like a Noah, went to college to study.After growing up on the farm and study at Yale College, Noah Webster - one of the Americans’ heros - spent much of his life trying to improve education. He wrote America’s First Dictionary and started important school reforms for better future. The Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society West in Hartford is a magnificent thank for Noah Webster’s activity, and this is a great place come to know late 18th-century New England’s life.