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Wolcott lived in the house until his death in 1797. For most of the 20th century the house was also owned by Wolcott descendants. [4] Oliver Wolcott, Sr. was born in Windsor, Connecticut (in a part that is now South Windsor) in 1726. He graduated from Yale College in 1747 and then studied medicine. He moved to Litchfield in 1751, and quickly ...
Oliver Wolcott Sr. (/ ˈ w ʊ l k ə t / WUUL-kət; November 20, 1726 – December 1, 1797) was an American Founding Father and politician. He was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut , and the nineteenth governor of Connecticut .
Social Library in Stepney Parish, Wethersfield (est.1794) [2] Union Library Society of Wethersfield (1783–1850) [2] [24] Winchester. Society of Winsted, Winchester (est.1799) [2] Windham. Library Company in Scotland, Widham (1791–1830) [2] Library in First Society, Windham (ca.1795-1798) [2] Wolcott. Library in Farmingbury, Wolcott (est ...
US 7 and CT 4 over the Housatonic River ... churches, and the D.M. Hunt Library from 1891. 44: Farnum House: ... Litchfield: 1753-built home of Oliver Wolcott Sr., ...
From 1776 to 1780, two depots for military stores and a workshop for the Continental army were maintained, and the leaden statue of George III., erected in Bowling Green (New York City), in 1770, and torn down by citizens on July 9, 1776, was cut up and taken to Litchfield, where, in the house of Oliver Wolcott, it was melted into bullets for ...
The Milton Center Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century village center of Milton in the northwestern part of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Basically linear, it stretches from Milton Cemetery in the west to the junction of Milton and Shearshop Roads in the east, including houses, churches, schools, and the ...
The Litchfield Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut, founded in 1792 by Sarah Pierce, was one of the most important institutions of female education in the United States. During the 30 years after its opening the school enrolled more than 2,000 students from 17 states and territories of the new republic, as well as Canada and the West Indies.
At the center of the district is the Litchfield Town Green in the area of the intersection between U.S. Route 202 and Route 63, the main through routes of the town of Litchfield. The village green was originally established in 1720 and was primarily used as a common pasture ground, in addition to being the site of the first town meetinghouse ...