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Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House - ASD
This private home belonged to Austin F. Williams...
Camp Isola Bella
Summer Camp for the Deaf Community
...Founders Memorial Gallaudet Statue and Square
Monument for Enlightenment
The New Englan...
Trinity Chapel
Trinity College’s Support of the Deaf Community<...
The Old State House - ASD
Funding Deaf Education in America
In May ...
The Current Home of the American School for the Deaf
Proud Home of the Mother School
Please no...
The Third American School for the Deaf
A Campus Devoted to Deaf Education
Now th...
The Second American School for the Deaf
Expanding American Deaf Education
By the ...
The First American School for the Deaf
Beginning 200 years of Deaf Education
Tod...
The Cogswell and the Gallaudet Families
Birth of Deaf Education
Although the Cogs...
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Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House - ASD
This private home belonged to Austin F. Williams (1805-1885), who was an ardent abolitionist who helped both the Amistad captives and students from the American School for the Deaf. Williams built the carriage house on this property as a ...
Camp Isola Bella
Summer Camp for the Deaf Community
Since 1962, Camp Isola Bella has been home to the American School for the Deaf’s summer camp. Today the camp continues to welcome deaf children and hearing children with deaf family members.
In ...
Founders Memorial Gallaudet Statue and Square
Monument for Enlightenment
The New England Gallaudet Association for the Deaf unveiled this statue on April 18, 1953. Mrs. Frances Wadsworth, from Granby, designed this sculpture to resemble Alice Cogswell standing in large hands to commemorate the beginnings of deaf ...
Trinity Chapel
Trinity College’s Support of the Deaf Community
Children from both the Clerc and Gallaudet families attended Trinity College. In 1939 a pew end was dedicated depicting Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet teaching a deaf child about God. It was dedicated in ...
The Old State House - ASD
Funding Deaf Education in America
In May 1816, the Connecticut state government passed an act that officially incorporated the American School for the Deaf. Later that year in October, the Connecticut legislature voted to give $5,000 in aid to the ...
The Current Home of the American School for the Deaf
Proud Home of the Mother School
Please note that this location is an active school and all visitors must check in at the main office.
As the urban landscape of Hartford expanded along Asylum Avenue, the American School for the ...
The Third American School for the Deaf
A Campus Devoted to Deaf Education
Now the location of the Hartford Insurance Company, the American School for the Deaf called his location home for 100 years, from 1821 until 1921. The school purchased the seven acre property from Jared ...
The Second American School for the Deaf
Expanding American Deaf Education
By the end of 1817 Gallaudet and Clerc needed more space for their growing number of students. They purchased the home that stood at this location from attorney Thomas Day. This second location is sometimes still ...
The First American School for the Deaf
Beginning 200 years of Deaf Education
Today the Bushnell Towers stand on the former location of the City Hotel. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc rented rooms at this hotel and it was here that the American School for ...
The Cogswell and the Gallaudet Families
Birth of Deaf Education
Although the Cogswell family mansion no longer stands, this site saw the birth of deaf education in North America, the events that would create American Sign Language (ASL). Dr. Mason Cogswell, a renowned Yale graduate and ...