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Please print an order form and mail to:
Museum Shop, Keeler Tavern Museum, P.O. Box 204, Ridgefield, CT 06877. You may also call the Museum at 203-438-5485 with your MasterCard or Visa number to place your order by phone, or fax
us at 203-438-9953. You may also contact
us by email at keelertavernmuseum@earthlink.net

Gift Items

11-inch Ridgefield Pewter Plate

Price: $42.00 (Plus Postage & Handling of $13.95)

Available exclusively at the Museum Shop

Description:
The Ridgefield Commemorative Pewter Plate is the perfect gift for
history buffs and collectors, or purchase one as a decorative accessory for your home. Designed with the Ridgefield town emblem, this 11-inch pewter plate by Wilton Armetale is part of their serveware collection and is available exclusively at the Keeler Tavern Museum Shop. While its beauty and craftsmanship make it a work of art, this serveware is appropriate for any kind of entertaining. Combine it with crystal and china for formal occasions or enjoy it for casual everyday use. Its unique non-toxic metal composition makes it safe for cooking, serving and storing foods. It meets guidelines for safe food and beverage handling and can withstand temperature extremes.
Item# 1

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Books and Videos

Title: The Keeler Tavern, Three Centuries of Connecticut History

Price: $19.95 — 25 minute color video

Description:
The Keeler Tavern has graced the Main Street of Ridgefield, Connecticut for almost 300 years. Originally a farmhouse, (circa 1713), it became T.Keeler's Tavern in 1772, the Resseguie Hotel in 1829, a summer home in 1907 to the renowned architect, Cass Gilbert, a private all year residence in 1957 and finally the Keeler tavern Museum in 1966. The lives of all the families who lived there and the changes they made are reflected in the property as it stands today. Take a trip back in time and visit with those who cared for and preserved Ridgefield's past for the present.
Item #721

Title: Five Village Walks by Jack Sanders Self-guided,
illustrated tours of the historic village of Ridgefield, CT
50 pages with photos and maps

Price: $5.00

Description:
Published by the Ridgefield Archives Committee, this guide provides detailed instructions on how to see historic Ridgefield at a leisurely pace. Also included are historical facts about locations and structures along the way. There are many historic photos from the Keeler Tavern Museum's Hartmann Glass Plate Photo Collection.
Item#908

Title: Images of America, Ridgefield
Ridgefield Archives Committee – 127 pages with photos and maps

Price: $18.99

Description:
This visual presentation of Ridgefield's past is valuable source of local history that will enlighten and entertain readers of all ages for many years to come. The Ridgefield Archives Committee encouraged the entire community of Ridgefield to work together to compile materials for this book. In local museums, at the area newspaper office and in household attics, townspeople searched for the best from their photographic collections to be included in this book.
Item#1401

Title: A View from the Inn, The Journal of Anna Marie
Resseguie1851-1867, 350 pages with photos and maps Edited and
Published by the Keeler Tavern Preservation Society, Inc.

Price: $36.00

Description:
The journals of Anna Marie Resseguie, offer a delightful retrospective on nineteenth century Connecticut. The writer was the daughter of the innkeeper of the Resseguie Hotel (formerly the Keeler Tavern) a small home-and-hostel located on Main Street in Ridgefield. The inn was a coach stop on the main post road from Philadelphia to New York, to Hartford and Boston; and its guests often included prominent personalities of the day. While her journals are a very personal account of family and friendships, of church and local happenings, they also reflect the larger world outside.
Item#695

Title: Keeler Family, Ralph Keeler of Norwalk, CT and some of His Descendants.Compiled by Wesley Keeler

Revised Edition. Published 2000, 1 volume, 461 pages including index.

Price: $47.50 (Includes Postage & Handling)

Description:
It is a special pleasure for the Keeler Tavern Museum to join with Wesley B. Keeler in presenting this third edition of his Keeler Family genealogy. Mr. Keeler has collected and added much earlier and later information about the extensive Keeler family. It is all here to enlighten present day Keelers and generations yet to come.
Item#1402

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