First honorary street sign in Middletown named after former enslaved man

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First honorary street sign in Middletown named after former enslaved man

A new street sign, located on the corner of Rapallo Avenue and Main Street in Middletown, honors Prince Mortimer and his legacy. “It is certainly a story of perseverance. Something I hope a lot of our young people here in Middletown learn about,” Middletown Municipal Historian Debby Shapiro said. Prince was captured off the coast of Guinea in the early 1700s as a boy and brought to Middletown where he was enslaved by Philip Mortimer, who owned a…