<P> Three Rivers Community College also serves the region . </P> <P> Public Transportation in Norwich is provided by Southeast Area Transit, or SEAT . The city was formerly served by various railroads in the past, </P> <Ul> <Li> Benedict Arnold (1741--1801), born in Norwich, American Revolutionary War general and later British defector; a commemorative plaque is on the lot where his house used to stand; city library has a prominent portrait of Arnold on its north wall </Li> <Li> Hannah Arnold (1708--1758), born in Norwich, mother of Benedict Arnold </Li> <Li> Isaac Backus (1724--1806), a delegate to the First Continental Congress, born in the city </Li> <Li> Isaac H. Bromley (1833--1899), born in Norwich; lawyer, editor, politician, railroad director, and humorist </Li> <Li> William Alfred Buckingham (1804--1875), Mayor of Norwich, 41st governor of Connecticut, and United States Senator </Li> <Li> Oliver A. Caswell, Wisconsin politician, born in the city </Li> <Li> Benjamin Church (1734--1776), surgeon general of the Continental Army, suspected of spying for the British, was confined in the city </Li> <Li> Richard Falley Cleveland (1804--1853), born and raised in Norwich, Christian minister known as the father of President Grover Cleveland </Li> <Li> Margaret Coit (1919--2003), historian, born in the city </Li> <Li> Erastus Corning (1794--1872), businessman and politician, born in the city </Li> <Li> Rajai Davis (1980 -), Major League Baseball outfielder </Li> <Li> Roger Wilson Dennis (1902 - 1996), American plein air impressionist painter and art conservator </Li> <Li> Costa Dillon (1953 -) filmmaker, creator of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes . </Li> <Li> Thomas J. Dodd (1907--1971), U.S. Senator and Representative; father of U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd, was born in the city </Li> <Li> Arielle Dombasle (born Arielle Sonnery de Fromental in 1958 in Norwich), singer and actress working mostly in French films </Li> <Li> Terence P. Finnegan (1904--1990), Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force </Li> <Li> Lafayette S. Foster (1806--1880), U.S. Senator and 57th President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate; died in the city </Li> <Li> Jonas Galusha (1753--1834), Governor of Vermont for two terms in the early 19th century; born in the city </Li> <Li> Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935), author and social reformer, lived for a short time in the city </Li> <Li> Daniel Coit Gilman (1831--1908), educator, college president, foundation president </Li> <Li> Roger Griswold (1762--1812), Governor of Connecticut, practiced law for a time in Norwich </Li> <Li> Galusha A. Grow (1822--1907), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863, studied law in the city </Li> <Li> Benjamin Hanks (1755--1824), goldsmith, instrument maker, first maker of bronze cannons and church bells in America </Li> <Li> Benjamin Huntington (1736--1800), delegate to the Continental Congress and later a Congressman, resident of the city </Li> <Li> Ebenezer Huntington (1754--1834), member of the United States House of Representatives, 1817--1819 </Li> <Li> Samuel Huntington (1731--1796), delegate to the Second Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence; first President of the United States, under the Articles of Confederation </Li> <Li> Samuel Kirkland (1741--1808), Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people; founder (in 1793) of the Hamilton - Oneida Academy (later Hamilton College), was born in the city </Li> <Li> Paul Konerko (1976 -), Major League Baseball player </Li> <Li> Wally Lamb (1950 -), author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True; director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy in the city from 1989 to 1998 </Li> <Li> Edwin H. Land (1909--1991), inventor of the Polaroid camera </Li> <Li> Cato Mead (ca . 1761--1846), African - American Revolutionary War veteran </Li> <Li> Miantonomoh (1565?--1643), chief of the Narraganset tribe, captured and executed by the Mohegan chief Uncas with a tomahawk in Norwich </Li> <Li> Elisha Perkins (1741--1799), popular quack doctor whose magnetic therapy "Perkins Tractors" (made up of two 3 - inch (76 mm) steel and brass rods with points at the ends) convinced even George Washington to buy a set </Li> <Li> Simeon Perkins (1735--1812), Nova Scotia merchant, diarist, and politician; outfitted Loyalist privateers during the American War for Independence; born and raised in this city until moving to Liverpool, Nova Scotia with the New England Planters </Li> <Li> Bela Pratt, sculptor, born in Norwich in 1867 </Li> <Li> E. Annie Proulx, journalist and author; born in 1935 in the city </Li> <Li> Edith Roosevelt (1861--1948), second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, was born in the city </Li> <Li> Matt Shaughnessy (1986 -), football defensive end for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League, graduate of Norwich Free Academy </Li> <Li> Charles Sholes (1816--1867), Wisconsin politician, was born in the city </Li> <Li> Lydia Sigourney (1791--1865), extremely popular poet from the early - to - mid-19th century, was born in the city </Li> <Li> John Fox Slater (1815--1884), industrialist and philanthropist, founder of million - dollar Slater Fund for the Education of the Southern Freedmen in 1882 </Li> <Li> Horace Smith (1808--1893), partnered with Daniel B. Wesson in Norwich in the early 1850s to develop the first repeating rifle, known as the Volcanic rifle; the two founded Smith & Wesson in 1852 </Li> <Li> Albert H. Tracy (1793--1859), former US Congressman </Li> <Li> Phineas L. Tracy (1786--1876), former US Congressman </Li> <Li> John T. Wait (1811--1899), Connecticut politician and lawyer, U.S. Representative from 1876 to 1887 </Li> <Li> Henry S. Walbridge (1801--1869), former US Congressman </Li> <Li> Daniel B. Wesson (1825--1906), firearm designer; see Horace Smith </Li> <Li> William Woodbridge (1780--1861), Governor of Michigan, also represented the state in the U.S. Senate, was born in the city </Li> </Ul> <Li> Benedict Arnold (1741--1801), born in Norwich, American Revolutionary War general and later British defector; a commemorative plaque is on the lot where his house used to stand; city library has a prominent portrait of Arnold on its north wall </Li>

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