Collections : [Wesleyan University -Special Collections and Archives]

John Johnston was a professor of natural sciences at Wesleyan University, and twice served as its acting president.

Joseph Cummings was the fifth president of Wesleyan University and its first alumnus to serve as president.

Joseph S. Daltry was a music teacher and professor at Wesleyan University from 1918-1967.

Karl Pomeroy Harrington (1861-1953) was an alumnus of Wesleyan University and a professor of Latin at Wesleyan from 1905-1929. His father, Calvin Sears Harrington, was also a professor of Latin at Wesleyan.

Laban Clark (1778-1868) worked as a missionary and an elder in the Methodist Church in New York state. He suggested Middletown, Connecticut as the site of a Methodist college, Wesleyan University, and served as the first president of Wesleyan's Board of Trustees.

Long Lane School in Middletown, Conn., opened in 1869 as the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls. In 1921, it became a juvenile detention center for girls, and in 1973, the detention center also admitted boys. In 2000, Wesleyan University bought the 160 acre property, and in 2003, the school closed.

Lorenzo Whiting Blood, Methodist minister, was born April 13, 1812 in Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. He graduated Wesleyan University in the class of 1838.

Wesleyan-related audio and video recordings in multiple formats.

In the spring of 1974, Professor Stephen Dyson of the Wesleyan University Classics Department took his Introduction to Archaeology Class on a preliminary excavation in Middlefield, Connecticut. This was a test to see if there was potential for an archaeology class based on fieldwork. Since the success at the first excavation, Wesleyan has continued to take its students on excavations within Middlesex County, Connecticut.

The Middletown Manuscripts Collection is an intentionally created collection of disparate manuscripts related to the history of Middletown, Connecticut.