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Greenwich Historical Society

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South
An Evening with Author Adele Logan Alexander

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Born during the Civil War into an affluent family of mixed race—black, white, and Native American—Adella Hunt Logan became a key figure in the fight for voting rights, especially for women of color. An intimate friend of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, an acquaintance and sometime sparring partner of Susan B. Anthony and … Read more

Horowitz Foundation Grant to Support John Henry Twachtman Online

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Joint Project with Lisa N. Peters will be Definitive Catalog of Famed Impressionist’s Work COS COB, February 19, 2020 — The Greenwich Historical Society is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts has approved a grant request of $89,000 to support John Henry Twachtman Online, a joint project of the Greenwich … Read more

Landmarks Recognition Program to Recognize Properties Associated with Trailblazing Women in Honor of the Centennial of the 19th Amendment

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***Mary Tyler Moore’s Georgian Home Among Structures to Receive Plaque for Design Excellence*** COS COB, March 5, 2020 — The 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, and the brave women who made it possible, inspires this year’s Landmarks Recognition Program. Four Greenwich structures owned, designed or dedicated to trailblazing women … Read more

On your way out…

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Tod’s Driftway  The road out of the Park is called Tod’s Driftway. Originally, this was a sand bar (tombolo) connecting the mainland to the islands. In 1892, the Ferris family granted a formal easement to Tod to construct and maintain a permanent roadway across it. However, only after he purchased the last 11 acres of … Read more

375th Anniversary Plaque

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On Founders’ Day, July 18, 2016, the town attached a commemorative bronze plaque to a small boulder on the bluff at the southeastern tip of the Point. The plaque, created for the 375th anniversary of the founding, features a replica of the original deed to the land we now call Old Greenwich. Wee Amogerone and … Read more

Innis Arden House Site

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Alas, this magnificent house had to be torn down in 1962 as it needed extensive repairs and required more money, time, and attention than the public coffers could provide. J. Kennedy Tod was among the wealthy elite of New York who made the Connecticut coast their playground. To recap, soon after he married Maria Howard … Read more

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