A thin mattress on the floor is the only furnishing of a third-story garret in the Joshua Hempsted House, the oldest structure to have survived Benedict Arnold’s burning of New London during the Ameri.
A hotel on Bank Street where Black sailors were beaten during a night of rioting in 1919. The family home of New London’s first Black elected official on Rogers Street. A Green Street building that ho.
On January 9, 1789, the Connecticut Gazette’s lead story was an account by a sailor on a British ship describing what he witnessed on a slaving voyage between Africa and the West Indies sugar planta.
History holds many unpleasant, if not horrible truths. The Holocaust, U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, widespread lynchings during the Jim Crow era and the forced relocation o.
New London ― Pouring water into a potted plant, Adwoa Bandele-Asante asked those in the crowd to call out the names of their ancestors, whether personal to them or well-known names such as Frederick .