Charles Ethan Porter
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Charles Ethan Porter was an American painter who specialized in still life painting. A student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he was one of the first African Americans to exhibit
Charles Ethan Porter
Civil war soldier, 1872
Boy and Book, c 1880
Peonies in a Bowl, 1885,
Rockville, Connecticut
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Rockville is a census-designated place and a village of the town of Vernon in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The village is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 7,920 a
Charles Ethan Porter
…Connecticut. His father was possibly a mill worker and his mother worked as a servant. Porter's family moved to what was then the nearby village of Rockville (now part of Vernon, Connecticut) by the early 1850s. The family suffered many losses when Porter was young. They endured poverty and tragedy just a…
Downtown Rockville from Fox Hill in 2015
George Maxwell Memorial Library, photograph from 2006
St. Joseph's Church in downtown.
George Maxwell Memorial Library, postcard mailed in 1911.