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Nowashe Village

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787 Main Street
South Windsor , CT , 06074
Phone: 860-289-1783
41° 50' 11.994" N, 72° 33' 38.736" W
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Where history, nature and the arts come alive. Nowashe Village is owned and operated by the Friends of Wood Memorial Library & Museum, which is led by a part-time staff and dedicated board of directors. For centuries, members of the Indigenous Tribal Nations, commonly known as the Podunk or Nowaas tribe, flourished on the banks of the Connecticut River and its interiors, in the towns now known as South Windsor, East Windsor, Ellington, Vernon, Manchester, East Hartford and Glastonbury. The Wood is now home to more than 20,000 artifacts and ecofacts, including projectile points, stone and shell pendants, axes, pipes, hoes, steatite bowls and more. These pieces have formed the basis for lectures and hands-on programs on the lifeways of the Northeast Woodland Indigenous Peoples for both children and adults.

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