Many of Hebron’s past residents are buried here in Hebron’s oldest burying ground. Each person has their own unique story to tell. These stones only suggest some of what their lives were like. By wandering through the burying ground, you will discover some people from Hebron’s past. In the back corner of this burying ground are unmarked graves. This is where African Americans and paupers who lived in Hebron were buried. African American slaves were first buried in the back because they could not afford to buy a burial plot. By 1810 there were no slaves in Hebron but burials continued in the back corner, so that African Americans could be buried next to their relatives. Some of the African Americans buried here were born in Africa, some were born to enslaved African American mothers and thus by color of their skin were kept enslaved. By 1850, Hebron had the largest population of free African Americans of any town in Tolland County. Their grave sites are lost, but the role they played in creating the town of Hebron appears many times as you walk around Hebron Center.

Think about it

How has American slavery had an effect upon modern Americans?

Where to go next

From here --walk back toward the front of the graveyard.

Meet Your Neighbors QR Tours funded by the Hebron Greater Together Community Fund in conjunction with the Hebron Historical Society