Community Corner
Hempsted Houses Open for Season on May 2
First program is a paranormal investigation on May 15.
The Hempsted Houses open for the season on Saturday, May 2, and have a full schedule of programs and activities planned for the year.
The first program will be Friday, May 15, when visitors can talk with paranormal researchers who will be doing an investigation at the site that evening. For more information about that event and others, visit http://goo.gl/hWt81S.
In addition to special events and activities, the site at 11 Hempstead St. in New London will be open Saturdays and Sundays through October, as well as Thursdays and Fridays in July and August. On Opening Day this Saturday, visitors will enjoy cookies and lemonade and historic games on the lawn. Regular admission applies.
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The site includes a 1678 house, the oldest house in New London, and an adjacent 1759 house built by a local ropemaker. Joshua Hempsted, born in the older house, kept a diary that today provides hundreds of pages of valuable information about early New Londoners -- including Adam Jackson, who was enslaved to Hempsted.
For more information, go to www.facebook.com/HempstedHouses.
