Tag: #GuilfordCT
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Former Enslaved Resident To Be Honored At Guilford’s Henry Whitfield House
By Richard Kaufman on Patch on April 25, 2025 GUILFORD, CT — An installation ceremony for a “Witness Stone” honoring Cuff, a former enslaved resident at the Henry Whitfield House, will be held at the Henry Whitfield State Museum on Saturday, May 17, at 11 a.m., according to an announcement from the town. Cuff was enslaved…
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A Conversation with Guilford Community Television
We’re were delighted to share news about the Project with Guiford Community Television’s Matthew LeBow.
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Guilford Explores Its Hidden History with Slavery by Sharing 100 Names of the Enslaved
By Sue Braden in CT Insider on November 14, 2024 GUILFORD — In 1773, Theophilus Morgan Jr. “gifted” 1-year-old slave “baby Rose” to his 9-year-old granddaughter Rebecca Parmelee, an act that was rare in Connecticut though fairly common in the South. Baby Rose is among the 100 people who were enslaved in Guilford and are now being…
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Our Work in Guilford Continues
We gathered in Guilford on June 6, 2024, to remember Bristol. He is an ancestor of Witness Stones Project Chair Pat Pheanious. The installation was preceded by a talk at Guilford Free Library.
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Guilford 2022 Installation Ceremony
On June 3, 2022, students from the Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School gathered to honor the lives of Cuff, Dinah, and Flora. We invite you to watch the ceremony here.
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Remembering Flora
By Ella Montalvo, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School It is scary to imagine that these people suffered on the very grass we walk on in our town but it isn’t any better for it to be the grass that others in the South walk on. Flora was an enslaved person in Guilford,…
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Remembering Cuff
By Teagan Connellan, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School No birth records. No death records. No marriage records. No working records. Someone who wasn’t even seen as a person. Someone who would be traded or worth a unit of dollars. Someone who was with five different people in his lifetime. Not as family.…
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Witness Stones Ceremony on the Green
In the Guilford Courier on June 2, 2022 GUILFORD — Adams Middle School and the Witness Stones Project are holding their fourth installation ceremony in Guilford on Friday, June 3 at 9 a.m. on the Guilford Green. The Witness Stones Project started in Guilford in 2017 and since that time the organization has memorialized 10…
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Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Cuff, Dinah, and Flora
Because rain is expected, we have moved the ceremony to Adams Middle School. Friday, June 3, 2022 9:00 a.m. Hosted by Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School at Adams Middle School 233 Church Street, Guilford, Connecticut Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School will bring the community together to remember and honor Cuff, Dinah, and Flora and…
