Slave Quarters
The attic room above the back kitchen wing of the house was likely used as living quarters for the people enslaved by the Bush family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Month: February 2022
Justus Luke and Sally Bush’s Bedroom
Justus Luke Bush and Sally St. John, second cousins and lifelong acquaintances, married in 1821. Their bedroom, shown here as it may have looked during the early years of their marriage, was their private place, serving an important function in a household whose occupants also included Justus’s mother, two of his sisters and four slaves.
Dining Room
The Holley House was known as a place of gracious hospitality. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the dining room, where guests and family gathered for meals each day. Art colonists, their spouses, the Holley’s and MacRae’s, and invited guests gathered around the long table to share their experiences and ideas, an important aspect of art colony life.
Witness Stones Project aims to restore honor to names of people once enslaved in Connecticut
By News 12 Long Island | Feb. 21, 2022
News 12 visited the Greenwich Historical Society to Interview Dennis Culliton about the Witness Stones Project and our own Heather Lodge.
Greenwich’s ‘forgotten’ enslaved population: ‘Witness Stones’ project seeks to tell their stories
By Robert Marchant | Greenwich Time | February 12, 2022
Few markers of slavery exist in southern Connecticut, reminders of a time when men and women were bought and sold like property or livestock.
