Lighthouse Archaeological Site - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
People's State Forest, East River Road, Barkhamsted, Connecticut Site #74 on Connecticut Freedom Trail
About: At this site was a village made up of Native Americans, African Americans, and whites who in their time were considered outcasts. The village was established ca. 1740 by Molly Barber, a white woman from Wethersfield, Connecticut, and her husband, James Chaugham, a Narragansett Indian from Block Island in Long Island Sound. They moved to the northwestern Connecticut wilderness to escape the wrath of Molly Barber's father. The community was abandoned around 1860 after nearly 120 years of occupation. Location approximate.