Welcome to the Plainville Historical Society

Keeping Local History Alive Through Preservation, Inspiration, and Education

Established in 1968 under the leadership of the legendary Ruth Hummel, the Plainville Historical Society has been keeping local history alive for over 50 years. Our goal is to accomplish this through:

• Collecting and preserving resources including documents, photographs, memorabilia, or other objects related to Plainville or considered to be relevant Americana.
• Providing public accessibility to the Plainville Historic Center which the Society maintains as a research center, museum, offices, and store.​
• Promoting interest in local history through programs, media, education, and personalized assistance with research and genealogy.

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Our video digitization project is well under way. Using grants from CT Humanities and Norton Trust, we have digitized many VHS tapes recorded in years past. We are now starting to upload them to YouTube. Here is our latest addition.

Technical quality of the tapes is not always the best, but these videos are truly a local history treasure! Access our YouTube Channel at:

 Come learn about Frank Wheeler, co-founder of Trumbull Electric (later GE) who, along with his wife Bertha, was also a dedicated public servant and philanthropist. Wheeler Regional YMCA and Wheeler Clinic were made possible by their generosity, and Wheeler School was named in honor of Frank. The Public Library was another project which the couple helped spearhead. Both Bertha and Frank also served the town in many other volunteer and public service capacities.

To register, please email name, number of persons, and phone number. Elevator access is available. There is no charge. We hope to see you on the 25th!

Please Note: We will be closed the morning of Wednesday September 25th, but will be opening in the evening for our program on the Wheelers. We wanted to give our wonderful core group of volunteers a little time off since in addition to Wednesday evening, most of them will also be attending a meeting at the Historic Center on Thursday!