Asa Seymour Curtis House
2016 Elm Street, Stratford, CT 06615Benjamin Douglas House
11 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church
160 Cross Street, Middletown, CT 06457David Ruggles Gravesite
Yantic Cemetery, Lafayette and Williams Streets, Norwich, CT 06360Elijah Lewis House
1 Mountain Spring Road, Farmington, CT 06032Francis Gillette House
545 Bloomfield Avenue, Bloomfield, CT 06002Friendship Valley
60 Pomfret Road, Brooklyn, CT 06234Greenmanville Historic District
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue, Stonington, CT 06355Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT 06105Hart Porter House and Outbuilding
465 Porter Street, Manchester, CT 06040Isaiah Tuttle House
4040 Torringford Street, Torrington, CT 06790James Davis House
111 Goose Lane, Guilford, CT 06437John Brown Birthplace Site
John Brown Road (Route 4 west of 272, take University Drive one mile), Torrington, CT 06790
One of the most famous abolitionists in America was John Brown. In 1859, his armed raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, for the purpose of ending slavery, foreshadowed the Civil War two years later to achieve the same end. Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800, at this site. The house was destroyed by fire in 1918, but the property is maintained by the Torrington Historical Society. The image of Brown's house is incorporated in the City of Torrington's seal. Pikes used by John Brown and his men in the Harpers Ferry raid were made by the Collins Company, located in the Collinsville section of nearby Canton. The Canton Historical Museum has one of these spikes on display.
Web Site: http://www.torringtonhistoricalsociety.org/johnBrown.htmParking Information: Visitors may park on the roadside
