History of Canterbury, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to Canterbury, Connecticut, USA

• 1703 - First settled as a part of Plainfield in the late 1600s, it was officially separated and named Canterbury in 1703, becoming the state’s 38th town.
  
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• 1819 - Canterbury
  Canterbury is a post township, 40 miles east from Hartford; bounded on the north by Brooklyn, on the east by Plainfield, on the south by Lisbon and Gr...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1831 - (Canterbury, CT) - In 1831 Prudence Crandall opened a private school for girls but when she allowed—and then focused exclusively on—education for young African American women, informal and legal protests began.
  A mob attack forced the school’s closure in 1834.
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•  1833 - June 27 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
  
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  June 27, 1833
  
  
• 1854 - Canterbury
  Canterbury, a post-township of Windham county, Connecticut, about 35 miles E. by S. from Hartford. Population, 1669
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1859
  CANTERBURY, a township of Windham co., in the state of Connecticut, 12 m. N or Norwich. On the E it is bounded by the Quinebaug, which abounds with sh...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1869 - Wore suit for more than 50 years
  An old man in Canterbury, Conn., seventy-five years of age, died recently and was buried in a suit of clothes which he procured when a young man, and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Canterbury
  Canterbury, kan'ter-ber-e, a post-village of Windham co., Conn., in Canterbury township, on the Quinebaug River, 3 miles from Plainfield Junction, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Old Prudence Crandall School, Canterbury, Conn.
  
  "A Quaker abolitionist and teacher, Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut... Read MORE...
  
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  Canterbury Green, Main St. Looking North.
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  Westminster Second Congregational Church
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  First Congregational Church, Canterbury Green, Conn.
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• 1916
  Canterbury, kan'ter-ber-e, a post-village of Windham co., Conn., in Canterbury township (town), on the Quinebaug River, about 14 miles NNE. of Norwich...Read MORE...