History
Two More Early Suffield Blacks Recognized
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In the continuing program to identify early Black residents who were owned in Suffield, an interested group gathered at the Phelps-Hatheway House to learn about Witness Stones.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/3/)
In the continuing program to identify early Black residents who were owned in Suffield, an interested group gathered at the Phelps-Hatheway House to learn about Witness Stones.
In the summer of 2021, Joseph McGill facilitated two important dialogues at the Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library.
In 1954 Rotary’s Little League team won the Chester “Whitey” Sniadowski Trophy.
Suffield was spared a devastating impact of the Industrial Age when the town voted against The Hartford and New Haven Railroad running tracks through it in the early 1840s.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library.
Suffield Savings Bank president W.S. Fuller applies Scotch-Lite tape to a rear fender as Police Chief Frank Sutula keeps a record.
Over 50 people gathered at the Kent Memorial Library on Monday morning, April 10, to recognize the installation of a Witness Stone for Tamer, an enslaved Black girl purchased in 1777 by Suffield businessman Luther Loomis.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library.
The old Socony station across from the Green, about 1932, with Howard Colson in front.