Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum

Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum

The oldest house in Stonington, Connecticut is the Robert Stanton House, now known as the Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum.

The property has been farmed continuously by the Stanton family for over 350 years.

The house is thought to have been built by the third generation of Stantons to live on this property, thomas and Thankful Denison Stanton, thomas was the son of Robert and Joanna Gardiner Stanton. It is believed to have been built in about 1670.

a non-profit vorporation has been formed to preserve the homestead as a museum. [ Fundraising underway to preserve Davis farm, July 3, 2007 by Judy Green , Westerley Sun, [http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2007/07/23/news/free_news/doc46a00343b68b0216007837.txt] ]

The house is particularly notable because in the eighteenth-century attic slave quarters there are chalk drawings painted by enslaved Africans. [ [http://www.stantondavishomestead.org/homestead.html] ]

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