29th Colored Regiment Monument
Criscuolo Park, Chapel and James Streets, New Haven, CT 06513African American Memorial
Ancient Burying Ground, 60 Gold Street (Main and Gold Streets, adjacent to Center Church), Hartford, CT 06103Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103Ancient Burying Ground
Main and Marsh Streets, Wethersfield, CT 06109Archer Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
320 Hayden Station Road, Windsor, CT 06095Benjamin Trumbull House
80 Broadway Street, Colchester, CT 06415Boce W. Barlow Jr. House
31 Canterbury Street, Hartford, CT 06112Boston Trowtrow Gravesite
Old Burying Ground, 69 Main Street, Norwich, CT 06360Bristol (Bristow) Gravesite
Old Center Burying Yard, approximately 28 North Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107Cesar and Lowis Peters Archaeological Site
Hebron Village Center, Hebron, CT 06248Charles Ethan Porter House
17 Spruce Street, Vernon, CT 06066Charles W. Morgan Whaling Vessel
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue , Stonington, CT 06355Constance Baker Motley House
8 Garden Street, New Haven, CT 06511Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church
217 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Edward A. Bouchet Monument
Evergreen Cemetery, 92 Winthrop Avenue, New Haven, CT 06519Faith Congregational Church (Talcott Street Congregational)
2030 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06120First Baptist Church
10 Northfield Street, Greenwich, CT 06830First Baptist Church
28 North Street, Milford, CT 06460Flora Hercules Gravesite
Antientist Burial Ground, Near Hempstead and Granite Streets , New London, CT 06320Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park
57 Fort Street, Groton, CT 06340Frank T. Simpson House
27 Keney Terrace, Hartford, CT 06112Freedom Trail Quilts
Museum of Connecticut History, Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106George Jeffrey House
66 Hillside Avenue, Meriden, CT 06451Glasgo Village
Intersection of Routes 201 and 165, Griswold, CT 06351Goffe Street School
106 Goffe Street, New Haven, CT 06511Green Farms Burying Ground
Sherwood Island Connector and Greens Farms Road, Westport, CT 06880Gunntown Passive Park
Gunntown Road, Naugatuck, CT 06770Hannah Gray House
235 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Hempstead Historic District
Area surrounding 11 Hempstead Street, New London, CT 06320Henry and Lyzette Munroe House
108 Cross Highway, Westport, CT 06880Hopkins Street Center
34 Hopkins Street, Waterbury, CT 06704Jackie Robinson Park of Fame
Jackie Robinson Way, Richmond Hill Avenue and West Main Street, Stamford, CT 06902Jail Hill Historic District
Fountain, Cedar and School Streets, Norwich, CT 06360James Mars Gravesite
Center Cemetery, Old Colony Road (off of Route 272), Norfolk, CT 06058
James Mars was born into slavery in Connecticut in 1790 and became free through the gradual emancipation law enacted by the state in 1784. Mars wrote a pamphlet about his experiences, which can be found in the book Five Black Lives. Mars was freed at the age of 21 and spent much of his life in Hartford and Norfolk. Always active in the church, he became a deacon of Talcott Street Congregational Church in Hartford. Mars helped organize meetings to promote freedom for slaves and to improve conditions for free African Americans. In 1842, he petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly in an effort to gain the right to vote, which was denied to African Americans in the state's constitution. Mars lived his later years in Norfolk and supplied information on the history of the town, which appeared in the 1900 publication History Of Norfolk, written 20 years after his death. Mars is buried alongside his father, Jupiter Mars, who served in the American Revolution. Nearby are graves of the Freedom family, who are also mentioned in the above town history. These stones are located to the rear and left of the first entrance into the cemetery. To the right of this entrance, near the wall next to Old Colony Road, is the grave of Alanson Freeman, who served in the all-black Connecticut 29th Regiment of the Civil War.
