A nationally cited independent bookstore has anchored the Boston Post Road since 1989 — three hundred author events a year on a colonial-era main street.
Madison was settled as East Guilford in 1641 and incorporated under its own name in 1826, honoring James Madison, fourth President of the United States.
Why People Visit Madison Connecticut
- Spend a day at Hammonasset Beach State Park — two miles of sandy beach on Long Island Sound, the largest shoreline state park in Connecticut, open to the public since July 18, 1920, with a boardwalk, campground, and picnic groves.
- Walk out to Meigs Point at the eastern end of the park — rocky headland views over the Sound — and visit the Meigs Point Nature Center for tide-pool touch tanks and salt-marsh exhibits.
- Stroll the Madison Town Green, one of the oldest in Connecticut, with the 1838 Greek Revival First Congregational Church facing it.
- Tour the Deacon John Grave House on the Boston Post Road — the 1685 saltbox that is one of the oldest houses in Connecticut, home to nine generations of the Grave family and now a museum.
- Visit the Allis-Bushnell House, the Madison Historical Society's museum a few doors down the Post Road.
- Browse the independent bookstore on the Boston Post Road that draws readers and authors from across the region — hundreds of author events a year on a colonial-era main street.
- Walk Madison Center — clapboard shops, cafes, and an art-house cinema along the Boston Post Road, built for window-shopping and ice cream.
- Paddle or birdwatch the lower Hammonasset River estuary and the salt marshes behind the beach.
- Fish or watch the boats along the East River and Neck River town shorelines.
- Circle Tuxis Pond on the walking path just behind the village center.
