First Church of Christ, Farmington

First Church of Christ in Farmington, a Congregational parish established in sixteen fifty-two, became in eighteen forty-one the unlikely final American home of the Amistad captives. After the Supreme Court ruled in their favor in a case argued by John Quincy Adams, the thirty-five surviving Africans who had seized the slave ship Amistad two years earlier were brought to Farmington to live and prepare for their return to Sierra Leone. Local abolitionists in this congregation housed, educated, and supported them for months.

The church and the town's abolitionist network are now considered a landmark in the history of American anti-slavery activism. A stone monument on the village green commemorates the Amistad captives' time in Farmington, and the church building itself, a white-steepled New England meetinghouse on the historic green, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.