Supporting Connecticut Sites

Sites that supported the Litchfield County sites.

Woodbury - Glebe House, tunnel to other side of road (email correspondence)  Some findings were negative.
Home of Robert S. Clark

Canton - Negrotown "On the Eastern confines of New Hartford, and on the Northwest part of Old Simsbury, were many blacks."  (Place Names)

Prospect - Hotchkiss House  (Bader interview)

Sherman - Levi Stuart House - "A small building across the driveway north of this house, later remodeled as a carriage house was known as
"The Slave House".  It is presumed that Deacon Levi Stuart had runaway slaves here on their underground route to Canada."
(The Underground Railroad in Connecticut, 1976 pamphlet by the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut)

Bethel - Eliza Starr  (Danbury News-Times, March 5, 2000)

Farmington - Austin F. Williams house, Underground Railroad Conductor

Norwalk - home built by David Lambert - "Beneath the gambel roof are the remains of a secret stairway that leads from the attic to a dark cellar,
where it connects with a tunnel to a nearby salt-box house, a reminder of the Abolitionist societies and the Underground Railway operatives
who secreted escaped slaves enroute to Canada."  (CT-WPA, 449)

Plainville - Norton - East Main Street - "...built by John Calvin and his wife, Harriet Hotchkiss Norton...memoirs off evidence...
"Redpath's Underground Railroad (Hartford Courant, Oct 15, 1995, Freedom Trail proposed site.  Silverman)

Oxford - Washband Tavern - "Home was used to harbor slaves located on western Connecticut's Underground Railroad route."
(National Park Service web site)

Enfield - Shaker Historic District - now state prison - "One of the most convincingly Underground Railroad sites in Connecticut.
(National Park Service web site)

Norwalk - Incerto House, Chapel Street - no real evidence but "felt there had been a tunnel that went from the house down to the
shore of the river."  (Norwalk Citizen News  3-15-02)

Sprague - Perkins house, going north, at Versailles Station, on the road from Baltic to Jewett City, on the south of the road, is this
late 18th century house which served as a slave depot between Connecticut ports and Canada.  In the cellar of one of the ells,
the old dungeons can still be seen, and two whipping posts stand in the yard.  (email correspondence)

North Stonington - place called Randall's Ordinary

Woodstock - Senexet House - "... a long narrow passageway."  (email correspondence)

Danbury - Birchard House - Old Mill Plain Road
"As you go down the basement stairs you'll notice a hole and a stone/brick room.  It is believed that this may have hid runaway slaves."
(from a real estate brochure)
There is a chamber behind the fireplace and a round chamber under the pantry floor with two trap doors."
(email correspondence)

Bridgewater - Black Hill, Southeast corner of town, road named after that.