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 06790John Randall House
41 Norwich-Westerly Road (Route 2), North Stonington, CT 06359
The 1685 John Randall (1666-1720) House, according to tradition, was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Supporting evidence exists to lend credibility to this tale. Darius H. Randall (b. 1823) lived in the house at the time and possibly shared abolitionist sentiment. Randall was drafted during the Civil War and he served in the Union Army, despite his prosperity with which he could have paid for a substitute. Outraged at the treatment of black troops, he transferred to U.S. Colored Troop Regiment and served as a 2nd Lieutenant for the duration of the war. Given this demonstration of concern for the troops, it is possible that he assisted slaves on the route to freedom as well. A trap door to a small root cellar below the kitchen may have been a hiding spot. This house is privately owned and not open to the public.
Sources:- Peter Hinks, “Underground Railroad Report,” Unpublished research report and photographs, 2000, Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, Hartford
- Diana McCain, “The Underground Railroad in Connecticut, phase II,” Unpublished research report and photographs, 2002, Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, Hartford
