29th Colored Regiment Monument
Criscuolo Park, Chapel and James Streets, New Haven, CT 06513African American Memorial
Ancient Burying Ground, 60 Gold Street (Main and Gold Streets, adjacent to Center Church), Hartford, CT 06103Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103Ancient Burying Ground
Main and Marsh Streets, Wethersfield, CT 06109Archer Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
320 Hayden Station Road, Windsor, CT 06095Benjamin Trumbull House
80 Broadway Street, Colchester, CT 06415Boce W. Barlow Jr. House
31 Canterbury Street, Hartford, CT 06112Boston Trowtrow Gravesite
Old Burying Ground, 69 Main Street, Norwich, CT 06360Bristol (Bristow) Gravesite
Old Center Burying Yard, approximately 28 North Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107Cesar and Lowis Peters Archaeological Site
Hebron Village Center, Hebron, CT 06248Charles Ethan Porter House
17 Spruce Street, Vernon, CT 06066Charles W. Morgan Whaling Vessel
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue , Stonington, CT 06355Constance Baker Motley House
8 Garden Street, New Haven, CT 06511Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church
217 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Edward A. Bouchet Monument
Evergreen Cemetery, 92 Winthrop Avenue, New Haven, CT 06519Faith Congregational Church (Talcott Street Congregational)
2030 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06120First Baptist Church
10 Northfield Street, Greenwich, CT 06830First Baptist Church
28 North Street, Milford, CT 06460Flora Hercules Gravesite
Antientist Burial Ground, Near Hempstead and Granite Streets , New London, CT 06320Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park
57 Fort Street, Groton, CT 06340Frank T. Simpson House
27 Keney Terrace, Hartford, CT 06112Freedom Trail Quilts
Museum of Connecticut History, Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106George Jeffrey House
66 Hillside Avenue, Meriden, CT 06451Glasgo Village
Intersection of Routes 201 and 165, Griswold, CT 06351Goffe Street School
106 Goffe Street, New Haven, CT 06511Green Farms Burying Ground
Sherwood Island Connector and Greens Farms Road, Westport, CT 06880Gunntown Passive Park
Gunntown Road, Naugatuck, CT 06770Hannah Gray House
235 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Hempstead Historic District
Area surrounding 11 Hempstead Street, New London, CT 06320Henry and Lyzette Munroe House
108 Cross Highway, Westport, CT 06880Hopkins Street Center
34 Hopkins Street, Waterbury, CT 06704Jackie Robinson Park of Fame
Jackie Robinson Way, Richmond Hill Avenue and West Main Street, Stamford, CT 06902Jail Hill Historic District
Fountain, Cedar and School Streets, Norwich, CT 06360
In the 1830s, a new county jail was built in Norwich between Cedar and Fountain Streets, north of the business district, which made the area less appealing to wealthier families. Because of lower property values and proximity to businesses and employment, a number of African American families built houses in what became known as Jail Hill. Among these families were the Williamses, Harrises, Spelmans and Smiths. Members of these families were active in the anti-slavery movement in Connecticut and provided teachers in the North as well as the South following the Civil War. Several daughters from these families attended Prudence Crandall's school in Canterbury. The Underground Railroad was active in Norwich, although there is little information available on how Jail Hill residents worked in the endeavor. One escaped slave who resided here was James L. Smith, who wrote an autobiography in 1881 (see Five Black Lives). Two of Smith's daughters graduated from Norwich Free Academy and were teachers in Washington, D. C. The black community remained in the Jail Hill area into the early 1900s.
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