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 ...

The Imogene Theatre

After the Great Milton Fire of 1909 destroyed most of the downtown commercial district, there was a need for a new public auditorium in town. Thus, in 1912, the president of Milton’s First National Bank, Stephen J. Harvey, financed the ...

East Fork of the Salmon River

Following the scouting expedition, the trail blazed into the drainage of the East Fork of Salmon River, crossed that stream, and headed almost due north on an ash flow toward the base of Mount Hood.

The Texas Western College Miners 1966 Basketball Team

On Saturday, March 19, 1966, riot police in El Paso, Texas, struggled to calm mobs of people moving through city streets. The residents had not taken to the streets in protest, but rather to celebrate. Just hours earlier, the Texas ...

Marian Anderson’s Outfit at 1939 Concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

On April 9, 1939, a crowd of more than 75,000 people gathered along the National Mall’s reflecting pool for an impromptu concert organized by the NAACP and the Department of the Interior. Before them, on the steps of the Lincoln ...

Muhammad Ali’s Headgear and items from the 5th Street Gym

Boxers training at Miami Beach’s historic 5^th Street Gym once used this corner stool and bell. These boxers included Muhammad Ali, who wore this training headgear while conditioning at the gym in the 1960s and 1970s.

Then known as Cassius ...