MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

highlad park school

Porter Street area history hike

highlad park school 395 Porter St, Manchester, CT, United States

A unique neighborhood with historic and modern houses, reservoirs, a Nature Center, and the home of Hart Porter (1812-1891), whose house, built about 1820, is on the Connecticut Freedom Trail, as a secret stop on the Underground Railway. Little remains of the Porter Mill, except Porter Brook. Before today’s Highland Park School, the wooden Porter […]