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Summary
Northeast View of Bacon Academy and the Congregational Church, Colchester

by John Warner Barber (1798-1885)

Sketch for Barber's Historical Collections of Connecticut (1836)

A view of Colchester includes the Congregational Church and Bacon Academy as well as a small "school for colored children" to the right of the church beneath the trees.

From the Web site of the Connecticut Historical Society:

Description: http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/barberdraw1.htm

Picture: http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/images/1953_5_47.jpg

Connecticut Historical Society Ref. # 1953.5.47 N1799