Nathan Hale
Scholar • Teacher • Soldier • Martyr
Born Coventry Connecticut, June 6, 1755
Graduated from Yale, 1773
Taught in this
"The Union School of New London"
from March 1774 until July 1775
Gave his life for his country . . . — — Map (db m48184) HM
... was the gift to his city of Henry Philemon Haven, one of New London's most prosperous whaling merchants. Construction was completed and the building opened to the public in 1892.
The well-known architect Henry Hobson Richardson is credited . . . — — Map (db m216490) HM
Washington Parade
In Honor of
President George Washington
Who, on August 4, 1790, signed into Law
the Act establishing the Revenue Cutter Service
Known today as the U. S. Coast Guard.
The First Commission, dated March 21, 1791
Went to . . . — — Map (db m205489) HM
Maury Hall, a substantial two-story concrete building, stood on this site from the 1930s or early 1940s until 1999. It served as classrooms for the U.S. Maritime Service officers’ training program at Fort Trumbull during Worl War II. Known to the . . . — — Map (db m48303) HM
This monument marks the site of the largest United States Maritime Service Officers School during the course of events leading up to and including World War II.
During this period 15,000 Maritime Service Officers were graduated and went forth to . . . — — Map (db m66449) HM
Dr. Charles H. Osgood Fountain
Dr. Osgood was one of the original founding fathers
of the Norwich Free Academy in 1854.
The fountain was on his estate at the corner of
Washington and Broad Streets. In 1957,
Milton Green purchased and . . . — — Map (db m101943) HM
Nov. 4 A.D. 1886
This Building
Dedicated to the Education of the Young
And Commemorative of
John F. Slater
Is Erected by His Son
William A. Slater
And by Him Presented to the
Norwich Free Academy
In Grateful Recognition
Of . . . — — Map (db m101954) HM
The Shattuck
Building
Dedicated To The
Devoted Support Of
The Humanities As Was
Constantly Exhibited By
George E. Shattuck
During His Tenure
As Principal
1940 – 1965 — — Map (db m101945) HM
East District School
Once upon a time in Norwich...
In 1789, when Norwich was the second largest city in the State, Thomas Leffingwell IV sold to the inhabitants of the East School District for 6 pounds, land “for the purpose of said . . . — — Map (db m101941) HM
This house was built about 1841 by Welcome B. Lewis (1810-1880), a ship carpenter who often worked at the George Greenman & Co. Shipyard. Originally sided with clapboards and painted white, the house was built in the Greek Revival style then . . . — — Map (db m114847) HM
In Memory Of
George Greenman 1805 - 1891
Clark Greenman 1808 - 1877
Thomas S. Greenman 1810 - 1887
Master shipbuilders. Sons of Silas Greenman, shipbuilder, of Westerly, R.I. They established their first yard at the head of the Mystic . . . — — Map (db m68506) HM
The Mystic Seaport Museum Sailing Center opened in 1961 and serves as the classroom space for the Museum's sailing and overnight programs. Students and campers in our overnight programs sleep next door on our tall ship the Joseph Conrad. . . . — — Map (db m226984) HM
Built: 1932, Henry B Nevins, Inc., City Island, NY
Design: Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.
Length: 61'6"
Sparred Length: 74'
Rig Height: 81'
Draft: 9'8"
Beam: 14'8"
The football rivalry between the Westerly, RI High School Bulldogs and Stonington, CT High School Bears began in 1911. It is among the oldest high school football rivalries in the United States, as no two high school football teams have played . . . — — Map (db m226901) HM
In 1755
Eleazar Wheelock D.D.
minister at Lebanon Crank
now Columbia
founded near this spot
Moor’s Indian Charity School
In 1769
the school was removed to
Hanover New Hampshire
From this beginning arose
Dartmouth . . . — — Map (db m111909) HM
Moor’s Charity School
1755 - 1769
Columbia, Connecticut
proudly remembered for two hundred years
by generations of Dartmouth Men
as seeding ground of Dartmouth College
and faithful steward of Eleazar Wheelock’s
generous and . . . — — Map (db m111911) HM
Booth and Dimock Memorial Library
The Booth an. Dimock Memorial Library, was dedicated on Friday, October 24, 1913. The Construction of this new building in 1912 was the result of a $40,000 bequest by Henry Dimock in memory of his grandfather, Rev. . . . — — Map (db m142431) HM
Has been designated a Contributing Resource
to the University of Connecticut
Historic District
One of two remaining houses built as faculty residences
between 1912 and 1920, the side-by-side colonial revival
structure is sited on what . . . — — Map (db m137533) HM
Has been designated a Contributing Resource to the University of Connecticut Historic District
One of two remaining houses built as faculty residences between 1912 and 1920, the side-by-side colonial revival structure is sited on what was . . . — — Map (db m137544) HM
Horsebarn Hill has been a familiar landmark since the University's founding in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It has offered successive generations of students a breathtaking view of the changing campus landscape as well as a picturesque . . . — — Map (db m179373) HM
The North Campus residence community was built in 1950 to accommodate the surge in undergraduate student enrollment in the post-World War II years. Because of the large number of spirited WW-II veterans it housed, the North Campus residence . . . — — Map (db m184748) HM
In Memory Of
Benjamin Franklin Koons,
B.A. Ph.D.
1844 — 1903
Instructor at Storrs
1881 — 1903
First President of the College
Erected June 11, 1905 by the Graduates — — Map (db m142447) HM
The history of the University of Connecticut can be traced back to the Storrs Agricultural School which opened on this site in1881 in the former Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home. Later known as Old Whitney, the fifty-room wooden structure housed . . . — — Map (db m184860) HM
The area that became Mirror Lake was acquired by the University in 1918 from the family of Edwin Whitney. The acquisition included the nearby Whitney family home, which over the years has housed a variety of University offices and programs. . . . — — Map (db m184854) HM
The Hill and adjoining land were
part of the original gift of land and
money made in 1881 by Charles and
Augustus Storrs to establish what is
now the University of Connecticut.
Today Horsebarn Hill is a multipurpose
shared landscape. It is . . . — — Map (db m128266) HM
Served as the Head Coach of University of Connecticut Men’s Soccer from 1969 to 1996, establishing UCONN as one of the nation’s elite NCAA Division I programs. He compiled an overall record of 358-178-53 at Connecticut and lead UCONN to NCAA . . . — — Map (db m184858) HM
Swan Lake was the scene of an annual rope pull competition between freshman and sophomores from 1901 to 1930 when the competition moved to Mirror Lake. The rope pull was a campus tradition for more than a half century.
Across North . . . — — Map (db m184753) HM
The first benefactors of the University of Connecticut, Augustus and Charles Storrs, are among the many prominent individuals in University history buried in the Storrs Memorial Cemetery. The property for this burying ground was deeded to the . . . — — Map (db m184745) HM
From the late 1890s to the 1930s, nearly two dozen houses were built as homes for administrators and faculty of the University. Faculty Row included houses on Whitney and Gilbert Roads, and stretched along the southern end of Mirror Lake. . . . — — Map (db m184756) HM
This Veterans Memorial honors University of Connecticut alumni who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in defense of the United States of America. These patriots gave their lives to protect our freedom and principles on which this nation was . . . — — Map (db m184912) WM
This area, part of the Wabbaquasset Indian country, was deeded to Captain James Fitch of Norwich in 1684 by Owaneco, sachem of the Mohegans. An earlier one having failed to act, a new committee was appointed by the General Assembly in May, 1710 to . . . — — Map (db m93606) HM
George Newhall Clark
Memorial Chapel
Completed 1908
Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of The Interior — — Map (db m122710) HM
1748 – 1943
Moved to present site 1954
Built 1854
America’s oldest schoolhouse in regular use
“Sacred to the beginning of America Education” — — Map (db m123514) HM
In 1690, Woodstock appointed its
first school master and built a
school in 1704. The first school
to serve this, The "West Parish"
was constructed in 1734.
Tradition says that a red school
house formerly stood on this site.
About 1873 . . . — — Map (db m122557) HM
Front In 1801, The town of Woodstock gave
land "on the common north of The
Meeting House” for the first simple
Academy building, founded by The
Reverend Eliphalet Lyman, John
McClellan, and others of the first
ecclesiastical . . . — — Map (db m123798) HM
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