Boothe Memorial Park preserves the Boothe brothers' eccentric 32-acre collection of buildings — a clocktower museum, chapel, blacksmith shop, windmill, trolley station, and an original Merritt Parkway tollbooth.
The brothers who collected buildings. Ask Stratford for its strangest story and you'll be sent to Boothe Memorial Park: two brothers, David and Stephen Boothe, spent the early twentieth century filling their family homestead with structures nobody could quite explain — a clocktower museum, a chapel, a blacksmith shop, a windmill, a trolley station, and, in time, an original Merritt Parkway tollbooth. They willed all thirty-two acres to the people of Stratford, and the town has been happily puzzled by it ever since.
Why People Visit Stratford Connecticut
- Tour Boothe Memorial Park, a 32-acre former estate with an eclectic collection of historic buildings on the Housatonic.
- Visit the Captain David Judson House (1750), the Stratford Historical Society's colonial Georgian home.
- See Stratford Point Light, the lighthouse marking the mouth of the river on Long Island Sound.
- Relax at the Lordship beaches and seawall, facing out onto the Sound.
- Explore the National Helicopter Museum and the Connecticut Air & Space Center, telling the town's aviation story.
