File:BarberJohnWarnerMonheganChapel.jpg

Summary
South View of Monhegan Chapel, Monhegan (Montville, CT.)

by John Warner Barber (1798-1885)

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

According to the Connecticut Historical Society, the Mohegan Chapel was a new building when Barber depicted it. Constructed in 1831 with funds from 'benevolent ladies in Norwich, Hartford and New London' as a church for Mohegan and white residents of the reservation in Montville.

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

Picture: http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/images/1953_5_173.jpg

Connecticut Historical Society Ref. # 1953.5.173 N1869