Columbia

Tolland County · dedicated 1973 · location approximate

COLUMBIA In May, 1700, William Clarke and Deacon Josiah Dewey acquired land in Lebanon Crank by agreement with Oweneco, son of the Indian sachem Uncas. Settlers arrived and, in 1715, pleading remoteness from the place of worship, successfully petitioned the General Assembly to form a second ecclesiastical society in Lebanon. This society remained part of Lebanon until 1804 when it was incorporated as the town of Columbia. Moor's Indian Charity School was established here in 1754 for the education of Indian missionaries by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock. The school was later removed by Dr. Wheelock to Hanover, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College, chartered in 1769, was its outgrowth.

Text transcribed from the cast town markers erected under Connecticut's town historical marker program in the 1970s and early 1980s. Presented as a historical record.

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