In May 1700, William Clarke and Deacon Josiah Dewey acquired land in Lebanon Crank by agreement with Oweneco, son of the Indian sachem Unicas. 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 by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock for the education of Indian missionaries. Wheelock later removed the school to Hanover, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College, chartered in 1769, grew out of it.

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Columbia, Connecticut · USA