Leverett Beman Historic District - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
Cross and Vine Streets, Middletown, Connecticut Site #86 on Connecticut Freedom Trail
About: The first known residential subdivision in the state, 1847, to have been laid out by a free black man for black homeowners, the Leverett Beman Historic District occupies a narrow triangle of almost five acres. The neighbor- hood today consists of 18 houses built between c. 1840 and 1959 and includes the Cross Street AME. Zion Church.