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 Scarborough in 1818 and constructed was completed in 1821.

Also called the Old Hartford School, this larger campus allowed the growing school to not only host more students from across the country, but to teach a larger number of subjects. Students who lived and studied at this school could learn trades such as sewing, carpentry, and shoemaking. In addition the grounds hosted livestock and gardens. The name Asylum Street comes from the school’s original name, The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.

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Keenan; Keenan; ASD; ASD.