It was the home of Abby and Julia Evelina Smith, political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage.

By contesting the assessment on their property and protesting against "taxation without representation," they brought international attention to the cause of women's rights.

and here, where liberty is so highly extolled and glorified by every man in it, one-half of the inhabitants are not put under her laws, but are ruled over by the other half, who can take all they possess.

The sisters' parents were Zephaniah Smith, a lawyer and former Sandemanian minister, and Hannah Hickok, an amateur mathematician and poet.

[2][3] The large wooden two-story farmhouse was built in the early 18th century by the Connecticut politician Eleazer Kimberly.