After teaching at the schoolhouse in East Haddam, Nathan Hale
went on to become the schoolmaster at the Union School in New
London, teaching there from 1774 until the Revolutionary War
began in 1775. Built in 1773, the gambrel-roofed school building
was originally located on State Street, was moved to Union and
Golden streets in 1830 to serve as a private home and was
purchased in 1890 by the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution. Under their guardianship, the building has
been moved several additional times: first to the burial ground
on Huntington Street, then, in 1966, to to Crystal Avenue and in
1975 to a spot next to City Hall. In 1988, the town paid to move
the school to the Parade, at the foot of State Street. For some
time, it has been used as a Visitor Center and museum. The
schoolhouse has just been moved a sixth time, to a new plaza
adjacent to the Water Street parking garage. This Memorial Day,
we honor the Connecticut patriot and hero of the Revolutionary
War, Nathan Hale. Th