6 Sources behind this site

Where All of This Came From

Every place, date, distance and photograph on this site traces to one of the records below. Nothing about hours, prices or menus is stated, because no source publishes them.

Sources, what each one supplies, and the license it is used under.
Source	Supplies	License
OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0	81 places, 6 trails, 16 ponds, and the avenue centerline	ODbL 1.0
National Register of Historic Places Greenwood Avenue Historic District registration form, reference 99001568	32 addressed resources in the historic district	Public domain
Town of Bethel calendar Bethel, CT events feed	8 of the upcoming dates on this site	Published by the Town
Bethel organizations Parks & Recreation, St Mary Church and Walnut Hill Community Church calendars	The remaining dates, from 3 Bethel organizations that publish their own calendars openly	Published by each organization
Wikimedia Commons Open-licensed photography of Bethel	22 photographs and historic views	CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA and public domain
Wikipedia Bethel, Connecticut	Background on the town, the district and the rail branch	CC BY-SA 4.0

Photograph Credits

Image	By	License
P.T. Barnum Square, a small triangular park with paved paths, benches and mature trees	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
The brick former Bethel Opera House on Greenwood Avenue, with a bracketed cornice	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Seth Seelye House, a white Greek Revival house with a full-height portico on fluted columns	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
A clapboarded former meeting house on Greenwood Avenue	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
Bethel's Congregational church, white clapboard with a tall steeple	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
The United Methodist Church at 141 Greenwood Avenue, its tower capped by a gold-leaf dome	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
Bethel's town hall building	User:Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
A brick church building in Bethel	User:Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Rev. John Ely House, an early clapboarded Bethel dwelling	Magicpiano	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Seth Seelye House seen from the street, now the Bethel Public Library	Doug Kerr	CC BY-SA 2.0
The shopfront of Dr. Mike's Ice Cream Shop on Greenwood Avenue	Brianegge	CC0
A row of commercial buildings along Greenwood Avenue	Jerry Dougherty	CC BY 2.5
The Bethel Public Library building on Greenwood Avenue	Jerry Dougherty	CC BY 2.5
The Bethel Metro-North station building beside the platform	Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States	CC BY-SA 2.0
The platform at Bethel station on the Danbury Branch	Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States	CC BY-SA 2.0
Bethel's Metro-North station seen from the parking area	Robert Mortell	CC BY-SA 3.0
A 1909 postcard looking down Greenwood Avenue, awnings out over the shopfronts	—	Public domain
A circa-1910 postcard showing Bethel from above	—	Public domain
A circa-1910 postcard of South Street, Bethel	—	Public domain
A 1914 postcard of the fountain at what is now P.T. Barnum Square	—	Public domain
An engraved bird's-eye view of Bethel published in the nineteenth century	O.H. Bailey & Co.	Public domain
A historic panoramic view of Bethel village	http://maps.bpl.org	CC BY 2.0

How the Data Was Gathered

Records were collected from public sources that permit automated access, one request at a time, with an identifying user agent. Every host’s robots.txt was read before anything else on it, and a refusal ended that source: several of Bethel’s busiest calendars ask automated clients to stay out, so their dates are not here except where the Town republishes them. The Town’s own website publishes the same policy, and this site links to bethel-ct.gov rather than reading it automatically.

Walking distances are computed from the OpenStreetMap centerline of Greenwood Avenue at a stated pace of about 3 miles an hour.