Joshua Hempstead House
New London
Maureen Hill
The seventeenth-century Joshua Hempstead House is one of two historic houses in New London's Hempstead Historic District open to the public. Owned by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society, it contains a family archives of early abolitionist papers. Surrounding the Hempstead House, the Hempstead Historic District includes houses that were purchased by free African Americans in the 1840s. The District is on the National Register of Historic Places.