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Text on front of card reads, "Where several Acadian peasants from Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, were sheltered by the town, having been put ashore here from British ships in 1755 (see Longfellow's Evangeline)."

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A walkway leads past a monument on a lawn surrounded by trees.

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The exterior of the Henry Whitfield House.

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Text on front of card reads, "Historic Capt. Lee House, East River, Conn, Built in 1747, Residence of G. R. Sattig."

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View of a rocky beach with houses in the background.

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The First Congregational Church amid toppled trees, missing its steeple. The steeple was rebuilt the following year.

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Two wooden buildings, one with a wraparound porch, on a rocky shoreline. The Sachem's Head Yacht Club was founded in 1896.

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The interior of the stone cellar believed to be the hiding place of regicides Whalley and Goffe in 1661.

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A door in the side of what appears to be a barn. It is believed that Governor William Leete hid Whalley and Goffe, two signers of the death warrant of King Charles I of England, here in June, 1661.

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A large chimney at the end of the Henry Whitfield house.
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