Mystic Oral School

Oralism Grows in Mystic

Zerah Whipple’s school in Ledyard had outgrown the farmhouse, and in 1876 he moved the school to a larger location. As 1893 superintendent Margaret Whipple Hammond described, “Zerah purchased from the heirs of one of Mystic's ...

Cogswell Family Gravesite

The Father and Daughter that Changed the World

The Cogswell Family and their descendants transformed the deaf community in North America. Dr. Mason Cogswell was a highly respected physician. Shortly after he graduated as valedictorian from Yale ...

Amistad Memorial

The American School for the Deaf in Hartford had an important role in the events after theAmistadMunity. Although slavery still existed when the school was founded in 1817, the transportation of African people across the Atlantic Ocean ...

The Whipple Home School for Deaf-Mutes

Different Views for Deaf Education

Jonathan Whipple successfully taught lip-reading and speech to his deaf son Enoch and paved the way for oral schools in Connecticut. Inspired by this success, his grandson, Zerah C. Whipple, developed his own method of ...

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.

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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 ...

Center Church - ASD

Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet’s Church

Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet attended and was a minister at this church.  He married Sophia Fowler here in 1821. In 1887, a beautiful stained glass window was dedicated to the Gallaudet Family. Depicting Jesus healing ...

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Dedication to Education

Daniel Wadsworth supported Dr. Mason Cogswell’s dream for a deaf education from its inception. In 1815, he was amongst a handful of gentlemen Cogswell invited to his home to discuss the idea for a school and became ...