Benedict College

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Benedict College, founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate freedmen and their descendants, was originally called Benedict Institute. It was named for Stephen and Bathsheba Benedict of Rhode Island, whose bequest created the school. Mrs. ...

Ensign James Benedict House

c. 1730

Ensign

James Benedict

Cobbler's Shop and Home

Marker is at the intersection of Rockwell Road and Perry Lane, on the left when traveling west on Rockwell Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Benedict Arnold's Betrayal and Lieutenant Joshua King

Ridgefield, Connecticut

On September 23, 1780, on his way through American lines to New York City, Major John Andre of the British Army was captured, taken prisoner and brought to American headquarters in South Salem, N.Y. Andre had plotted with ...

Sarah Benedict House

The Sarah Benedict House is a rare survivor of the once fashionable Upper Prospect neighborhood that included "Millionaires Row" on adjacent Euclid Avenue. Sarah Rathbone Benedict had this Queen Anne-inspired house built in 1883, when she was 68, and lived ...

84 St. Benedict Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

The narrow streets and small building lots of this area mark it as the earliest part of Lincolnville, founded by freed slaves after the Civil War and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. An earlier ...