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 06360James Mars Gravesite
Center Cemetery, Old Colony Road (off of Route 272), Norfolk, CT 06058James Pharmacy
2 Pennywise Lane, Old Saybrook, CT 06475Joseph Rainey House
299 Palisado Avenue , Windsor, CT 06095Lemuel R. Custis Gravesite
Cedar Hill Cemetery, 453 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114Leverett Beman Historic District
Cross and Vine Streets, Middletown, CT 06457Lighthouse Archaeological Site
People's State Forest, 106 East River Road, Barkhamsted, CT 06063Little Bethel A.M.E. Church
44 Lake Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830Marian Anderson House
Marianna Farm Way, Danbury, CT 06811Marian Anderson Studio
Danbury Museum & Historical Society, 43 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810Marietta Canty House
61 Mahl Avenue, Hartford, CT 06120Mark Twain House
351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 06105Martha Minerva Franklin Gravesite
Walnut Grove Cemetery, 817 Old Colony Road, Meriden, CT 06450Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses
352-54 and 358-60 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604Mary Townsend Seymour Gravesite
Old North Cemetery, North Main Street, at Mather Street, Hartford, CT 06120Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church
2051 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06120Milo Freeland Gravesite
Hillside Cemetery, Route 44, North Canaan, CT 06024Nero Hawley Gravesite
Riverside Cemetery, Daniel's Farm Road (off Route 127, one mile from exits 49 and 50, Merritt Parkway), Trumbull, CT 06611Old District Schoolhouse for Colored Children Site
Town Green, 98 Hayward Avenue, Colchester, CT 06415Old North Cemetery
North Main Street, at Mather Street , Hartford, CT 06120Palisado Cemetery
Palisado Avenue, Windsor, CT 06095Paul Robeson House
1221 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT 06082Porter Family Plot
Grove Hill Cemetery, 22 Cemetery Avenue, Vernon, CT 06066Prudence Crandall House
1 South Canterbury Road (Junction of Routes 14 & 169), Canterbury, CT 06331
Prudence Crandall purchased this imposing late Georgian-style house in 1831 to serve as a private academy for local young women. When she admitted Sarah Harris, an African American student, Crandall found that parents of white students objected. In April 1833, she opened her house as a boarding school for young African American women, an action which led to harassment by neighbors, passage of a state law against her work and her being jailed for one night. Through two court trials and an appeal to the state's Supreme Court of Errors, Crandall continued to operate her school. Only after a violent attack on the house on the night of September 9, 1834, did she agree to close the school and send her students home. In the United States during the years leading up to the Civil War, the Crandall incident was one of many that helped solidify attitudes against slavery. Crandall's effort to provide equal education, however, was a rarity for the times. In 1994, Prudence Crandall was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and in 1995, Crandall was designated as Connecticut's State Heroine. The Prudence Crandall House, a National Historic Landmark, is a museum open to the public.
Sources:- Prudence Crandall House, National Historic Landmark, http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregsearchresult.do?fullresult=true&recordid=2.
- Diana Ross McCain, To All on Equal Terms: The Life and Legacy of Prudence Crandall (Hartford: Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film, 2004).
Contact E-mail Address: Crandall.museum@ct.gov
Web Site: http://www.ct.gov/CCT/cwp/view.asp?a=2127&q=302260
Phone Number: (860) 546-7800
Hours of Operation: Open seasonally, please refer to the website for information on hours and admission.
Parking Information: On site
Accessibility Information: The first floor of the museum is fully wheelchair accessible. Closed captioning is available for some video programming. Please contact the museum with any other questions.
- Closed Captioning
- Wheelchair Access
