Editing Willimantic, Connecticut (section)

== Points of interest ==
[[File:Willimantic CT 33.jpg|thumb|A Victorian-era house in the Prospect Hill Historic District]]
Willimantic is home to a wealth of Victorian-era architecture. [[Prospect Hill Historic District (Willimantic, Connecticut)|Prospect Hill Historic District]] is a National Register-listed historic district containing 993 buildings. [[Windham Town Hall]], formerly Willimantic City Hall, is a [[Romanesque Revival]] building housing the town offices for Windham and Willimantic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.windhamct.com/townhall.htm|title=Windham Town Hall - Windham/Willimantic, CT|website=www.windhamct.com|access-date=2018-06-22}}</ref>

The [[Windham Textile and History Museum]] preserves and presents the history of the neighboring [[Jillson Mills]] and the rest of Willimantic during the [[Second Industrial Revolution|Industrial Revolution]]. The [[Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum]], located where the Columbia Junction Freight Yard was, has a collection of locomotives and rolling stock, as well as a reconstructed six-stall roundhouse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cteastrrmuseum.org/about.htm |title=About the Museum |publisher=Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum |access-date=2013-04-29}}</ref>

Willimantic is the home of the [[Willimantic Footbridge]]. Built in 1907, it is the only footbridge in the United States to connect two state highways, as well as crossing all three major forms of transportation: road, rail, and river. The [[Thread City Crossing]] ("Frog Bridge") is a road bridge over the Willimantic River, opened to traffic in September 2000, featuring eight-foot high, green-painted bronze frogs sitting on concrete thread spools to represent Willimantic's history in textiles as well as the local legend of [[The Battle of the Frogs|the Windham Frog Fight of 1754]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://connecticuthistory.org/bridge-ornaments-help-tell-the-legend-of-the-windham-frog-fight/|title=Bridge Ornaments Help Tell the Legend of the Windham Frog Fight|publisher=ConnecticutHistory.org|access-date=2014-07-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/20180225/historically-speaking-bridges-frogs-have-roots-in-willimantics-past |newspaper=Norwich Bulletin |last=Curland |first=Richard |date=2018-02-25 |title=Historically Speaking: Bridge's frogs have roots in Willimantic's past |access-date=2018-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/nyregion/once-again-frogs-land-in-willimantic.html|title=Once Again, Frogs Land in Willimantic|last=Polk|first=Nancy|date=2000-12-03 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2018-06-22|language=en}}</ref>