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The Lamb Homestead is located in a rural area of southern Ledyard, on Lambtown Road east of Center Groton Road (Connecticut Route 117).The property now consists of about 16 acres (6.5 ha), most of which is south of the road, with the farmhouse on the north side and a barn on the south side.
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Applewood Farm is a farmstead in Ledyard, Connecticut, United States.Constructed in 1826 by Russel Gallup, the farmhouse was built with a colonial center chimney design with Federal style details that has been modernized to the early 20th century without significantly changing the floor plan.
Ledyard (/ ˈ l ɛ dʒ ɜːr d / LEH-jerd) is a Town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, located along the Thames River.The town is named after Colonel William Ledyard, a Revolutionary War officer who was killed at the Battle of Groton Heights. [3]
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The earliest gravestones in the cemetery are "Ann" buried November 15, 1772 and Luther Geer died 1776. According to History of the Town of Ledyard: [2] The Geer family had originally settled in New London in 1651 and flourished in the area. The land that is currently the Gales Ferry Cemetery was probably the Luther Geer farm at one time (this ...
By 1790 (the year that Congress passed the first Nonintercourse Act), the Ledyard reservation had been reduced to 1,000 acres, due to sales by white supervisors. [7] In 1855, Connecticut sold 800 of the remaining acres at $10/acre, putting the money into a state-administered trust account for the Pequot people. [8]
The property is a small portion of a once-larger estate purchased in 1795 by Charles Smith for his son Shubel, apparently in anticipation of the latter's marriage the following year. Shubel Smith raised livestock for sale in the West Indies, and it is thought that some of the many stone walls on the property are related to penning the animals ...