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 06058James Pharmacy
2 Pennywise Lane, Old Saybrook, CT 06475Joseph Rainey House
299 Palisado Avenue , Windsor, CT 06095Lemuel R. Custis Gravesite
Cedar Hill Cemetery, 453 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114Leverett Beman Historic District
Cross and Vine Streets, Middletown, CT 06457Lighthouse Archaeological Site
People's State Forest, 106 East River Road, Barkhamsted, CT 06063Little Bethel A.M.E. Church
44 Lake Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830Marian Anderson House
Marianna Farm Way, Danbury, CT 06811Marian Anderson Studio
Danbury Museum & Historical Society, 43 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810Marietta Canty House
61 Mahl Avenue, Hartford, CT 06120Mark Twain House
351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 06105Most people recognize Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), as a satirist, humorist and literary figure. Less known is Twain’s activism in supporting the general cause of freedom and human dignity. Some accounts indicate that in 1881, Mark Twain endorsed and patronized the Parisian art education of Charles Ethan Porter, a talented African American artist from Vernon, Connecticut. And in a move that was to have reverberations during the civil Rights era, in 1885 Twain helped Warner T. Mc Guinn, a young African American student, attend Yale Law School. Warner T. Mc Guinn later became a mentor to Thurgood Marshall, who became the first African American Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In a comment on his financial support of Mc Guinn, Twain wrote:
"I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger. But I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, and the shame is ours, not theirs and we should pay for it."
In 1905, Mark Twain’s political satire, "King Leopold's Soliloquy" was published. With it, Twain condemned King Leopold of Belgium for his brutal rule of the Congo and aroused the world to the atrocities being perpetrated against the people of the Congo Free State.
The Mark Twain House offers daily guided tours. There are also rotating exhibits on Twain’s life and legacy in the nation’s first LEED-certified museum and visitor center, opened in 2003. Throughout the year, The Mark Twain House & Museum presents special events and educational programs that illuminate Twain’s literary legacy for fans of all ages.
Website: http://www.marktwainhouse.org
Telephone 860-247-0998.
Phone Number: 860-247-0998