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Middle Haddam Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
84001112

Year built
  
1730

Area
  
44 ha

Added to NRHP
  
3 February 1984

Middle Haddam Historic District

Location
  
Moodus and Long Hill Rds., East Hampton, Connecticut

Architectural style
  
Mid 19th Century Revival, Federal, Colonial

Similar
  
South Glastonbury Historic D, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, Bishops Corner - West Hart, Crystal Lake - Connecticut, Mansfield Hollow State Park

The Middle Haddam Historic District is a historic district in the town of East Hampton, Connecticut. It encompasses a small residential area, in which most of the housing stock was built between 1750 and the mid-19th century. Middle Haddam was an important port on the Connecticut River between about 1730 and 1880, acting as a shipment point for trade with the West Indies and the North American coast, and as the site of shipyards building ocean-going vessels. The most prominent building in the village is the Second Congregational Church, built in 1855 and given High Victorian styling in the 1870s.

Among others, the Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) was born in Middle Haddam's historic district. As a boy, Taylor attended the town's still-standing Christ Episcopal Church (est. 1786).

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Middle Haddam Historic District Wikipedia


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