Simsbury Property Where MLK Worked To Be Preserved

SIMSBURY, CT — A former tobacco farm in Simsbury where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once worked will be preserved as a site for recreation and history, according to FOX 61. The town announced Monday that the Meadowood property was purchased and will be part of a land trust.

The site consists of 288 acres on Firetown and Hoskins Road. The town's voters approved the $2.5 million purchase of the land in a May referendum.

In the 1940s, King was a college student hired to work on the farm.

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