3 Liberty Green Bed and Breakfast

Bed and Breakfast Inn Lodging in Clinton, Connecticut

This 2 story Early Colonial home was built in 1734 by John Rossetter.  The home passed into the Buell family around 1800.  The house was a regular stop on the circuit of the legendary “Leatherman” (vagabond) during his travels throughout the region.

We are located within a 300 year old national historic district, which began as a settlement laid out by the General Court government at Hartford for 30 homesteading families from England, Wales, MA and CT. In 1667 the settlement was designated a town and named Kenilworth, later became Killingworth. In 1838 the southern portion was incorporated by the General Assembly as the Town of Clinton, the northern portion retaining the name of Killingworth. Between the Revolutionary & Civil Wars, busy shipyards along the Indian River that flows through the center of town, launched nearly 200 vessels! Clinton's captains were known in trading ports along the Atlantic seaboard and on foreign shores. During the War of 1812, the village's citizen militia thwarted numerous attempts by British Warships to raid their harbor. On our Liberty Green sits a Navy cannon, reminicent of those skirmishes, as well as a Civil War Monument.

This burgeoning village grew to include a brickyard, foundry, tannery, tin factory, gristmills, sawmills, a woolen mill and a paper mill, as well as bountiful oyster beds and fisheries. In later years, Clinton became the home of Ponds, once the world's largest producer of creams and lotions.

Clinton's Main Street stretch of the old Boston Post Road is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from the Indian River to our own Liberty Green, a revolutionary war muster field and encampment. Main Street even has one of the Post Road's milestones placed in the 1750s by the enterprising Postmaster-General for North America, Benjamin Franklin. Both Washington and Lafayette are believed to have been guests at the inn that once stood to the southeast of Liberty Green!

Yale University may be 25 miles west of Clinton, but back in 1701 it's first classes were taught here by Rev. Abraham Pierson in the church's parsonage. His statue stands near at the Main Street Vece Bandstand, along with that of Charles Morgan, a steamship magnate who gave Clinton the nation's first endowed school just after the Civil War.

Clinton's showpiece is its stately Neo-Classical Town Hall, the 1938 legacy of a local banker, which boasts the Clinton History Museum with artifacts, memorabilia, a wonderful audio-visual presentation on Clinton's history, an antique doll collection, and an auditorium where theatrical and musical productions are presented year-round.