Reverdy Ransom Guest House
Known Name(s)
Reverdy Ransom Guest House
Address
Wequetequock Cove Stonington, CT
Establishment Type(s)
Tourist Home
Physical Status
Unknown
Detailed History
In the Vacation Section of the 1957 edition of The Green Book, there is a listing for the Reverdy Ransom Guest house on Wequetequock Cove. Two years later, that section included a listing for the Wequetequock Cove Boat Company on Route 1; to date, it has not been possible to verify the location of either.
Interestingly, Reverdy Ransom (1861-1959), for whom the guest house is named, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from Ohio whose father was Native American and whose mother was African American. Ransom was a co-founder of the Niagara Movement, a forerunner of the NAACP, in 1906, and established programs for Blacks that taught self-improvement. Wequetequock was a village of the Pequots, whose sparse Eastern tribal members have continuously lived in the Stonington area.
