Church on the Hill - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
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Site #16 on Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail
About: During the Civil War, the all-Black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was formed in 1863 under Col. Robert Gould Shaw, a member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Nearly one-half of the regiment was killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw and his wife Anna Kneeland Haggerty honeymooned at her father’s home in Lenox. Her grave is in the cemetery at Church on the Hill.
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