Collections Include artifacts and documents relating to these and other well-known residents:
- General Gold Selig Selleck Silliman and Mary Fish Silliman, Revolutionary War
- Caleb Brewster, Culper Spy Ring
- Roger M. Sherman, lawyer, judge, statesman
- General Ely S. Parker, Seneca chief and Civil War officer
- Mabel Osgood Wright, wildlife preservationist and photographer
- Annie B. Jennings, philanthropist and creator of Sunnie-Holme estate gardens
- John Taylor Arms, artist and print-maker
- Cameron Clark, colonial-revival architect
- John J. Sullivan, First Selectman