Amistad Memorial
165 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
127 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032Battell Chapel
Yale University, Elm and College Streets, New Haven, CT 06511Canal House and Pitkin Basin
128 Garden Street, Farmington, CT 06032Center Church on the Green
250 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 06511Chauncey Brown House
820 Farmington Avenue, Route 4, Farmington, CT 06032Farmington Historical Society
138 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032First Church of Christ, Congregational
75 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032Freedom Schooner Amistad
Long Wharf Pier, 389 Long Wharf Drive, New Haven, CT 06511Grove Street Cemetery
227 Grove Street, New Haven, CT 06511Long Wharf
389 Long Wharf Drive, New Haven, CT 06511New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Norton House
11 Mountain Spring Road, Farmington, CT 06032Old State House
800 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103Reverend Noah Porter House
116 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032Riverside Cemetery
Garden Street, Farmington, CT 06032Roger Sherman Baldwin Law Office Site
123 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510Samuel Deming Store
2 Mill Lane, Farmington, CT 06032Tapping Reeve Law School
Litchfield Historical Society, 82 South Street, Litchfield, CT 06759
Out of his home on South Street, attorney Tapping Reeve developed the first curriculum for teaching common law and opened the first law school in the United States. Tapping Reeve’s success with the law school and the law he taught his students was critical in the arguments used in the Amistad Case. Shortly after Judge Judson’s initial hearing on the USS Washington, Dwight P. Janes, an abolitionist from New London, contacted Roger Sherman Baldwin, an attorney known as a defender of justice for the less fortunate. Baldwin, who attended the law school in 1812, was the primary lawyer for the Mende Africans and argued their case all the way to the Supreme Court. The Litchfield Law School launched the town into regional and national prominence. Ultimately, the small law school would boast of having educated two vice presidents of the United States, as well as 14 governors, 14 members of the federal cabinet, 28 U.S. Senators, 100 members of the House of Representatives, three members of the U.S. Supreme Court and many state and local public officials.
Web Site: http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/index.phpPhone Number: (860) 567-4501
