The first farmers in this area were the Indigenous people who lived along the Connecticut River. Artifacts from this first farming community were uncovered at the Morgan Trench archaeological dig in the rock Hill Great Meadows. Surface finds, . . . — — Map (db m230804) HM
This area was first settled in 1650 as part of Wethersfield and became known as Rocky Hill because of the ridge that rises in the northeast. In 1722 the village became Stepney Parish of Wethersfield but attained separate town status as Rocky Hill . . . — — Map (db m46181) HM
The history of Rocky Hill is entwined with the Connecticut River. Flowing past our 4 mile shoreline, on its 410 mile trip from northern New Hampshire to Long Island Sound, the river has been a major factor in our town's growth and development as . . . — — Map (db m230797) HM
Rocky Hill Center Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m230830) HM
Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m230787) HM
Nation's oldest continuously operating ferry. Since 1655, public transportation across the Connecticut River has been provided at this site, connecting the towns of Rocky Hill and Glastonbury, both formerly parts of Wethersfield. Motive power has . . . — — Map (db m45766) HM
Site of the first home in Simsbury
Captain Aaron Cook
circa 1660
Site of the Pent Road Ferry
circa 1668
The Traine Band passed here — — Map (db m102019) HM
Established by vote of the Traine Band
May 28, 1685
“One day on one syd the river and
an another on the other syd ye river”
John Terry, Ensign
Jeremiah Gillit, Sargent — — Map (db m102006) HM
A toll bridge was built here
in 1734 by order of
the General Assembly
it was the first
highway bridge across
the Farmington River — — Map (db m102001) HM
Site Of
The First Meeting House
In Simsbury
1683 – 1739
Built at a cost of £ 33 according to an indenture between Thomas Barber and The Town
This site was chosen by lot at a solemn mmting of May 24th 1683 thus ending a controversy . . . — — Map (db m88060) HM
Simsbury
(Massaco Plantation)
Manufactory for tar, pitch, and turpentine established here in 1642. Destroyed by fire of Indian origin in 1647. Local tribal lands were deeded as reparation. Named Simsbury in 1670 and granted town privileges by the . . . — — Map (db m87927) HM
Just to the south, on route 10, is Abigail’s, originally called the Pettibone Tavern.
Jonathan Pettibone built the first Pettibone Tavern about 1780 and, after it was largely destroyed by fire, rebuilt it in 1801. The large chimney stack is . . . — — Map (db m141164) HM
The first ferry crossing of the Connecticut River was tended by John Bissell in 1641. This road leads to the landing place where succeeding generations of Bissells, and finally the Town, kept this Ferry in continuous operation until 1917. Main . . . — — Map (db m114003) HM
Bissell Ferry
1641 - 1917
This quiet spot with its big old house was once the scene of great activity. In 1614 Adrian Block, a Dutch explorer, found Indians living between the Scantic and the Podunk rivers.
At the request of Sachem . . . — — Map (db m114057) HM
Jonathan Edwards
1703 – 1758
Born at East Windsor
Died at Princeton New Jersey
Pastor and Theologian
Tutor at Yale College
President College of New Jersey
and one of the leaders
in the Great Awakening
the first spontaneous . . . — — Map (db m114021) HM
Old Burying
Ground
God’s Acre
1708
Resting Place
Of First Settlers
East of the River
And Their Pastor
Timothy
Edwards
Bicentennial 1776-1976 — — Map (db m114020) HM
Post Office & Store
From this building dry goods and groceries were offered to the public for over 200 years. The Store, operated in 1727 by Nathan Day, was discontinued in 1962. One of the oldest, this Post Office, the only one known to be in an . . . — — Map (db m114006) HM
South Windsor
In 1845 the Town of South Windsor was incorporated, having separated from East Windsor which had been divided from Windsor in 1768. This was once the territory of the Podunk Indians. Land was purchased from them in 1636 by the . . . — — Map (db m114005) HM
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Southington
To the fertile valley south of Farmington came Samuel Woodruff in 1698 to hunt and fish. Shortly thereafter Woodruff established a homesite, and with his settlement came other families from surrounding areas. The . . . — — Map (db m33757) HM
Suffield
In 1670 through a grant to John Pynchon, Suffield, formerly Southfield, originated
as a township of Massachusetts because of a surveying error. Mindwell Old, the first
child, was born in 1674, the year the town was incorporated. The town . . . — — Map (db m99675) HM
Goodman Green
In 1747 this oblong of land was given by Timothy Goodman to the West Hartford Parish of the Congregational Church for use as a parade ground of the local militia company. Still owned by the parish, it is maintained by the town. For . . . — — Map (db m53156) HM
Meeting House Corner
This park is the site of the first three meeting houses of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, organized in 1713. The parish of the west Division (West Hartford), the fourth in Hartford, was established in 1711. The . . . — — Map (db m53158) HM
Old Center Cemetery
The land for this cemetery, the oldest official burying ground in West Hartford was acquired in 1719 by the Town of Hartford for the benefit of its West Division Parish (West Hartford). It remained the principal place of burial . . . — — Map (db m97554) HM
Old North Cemetery
This graveyard was established in 1790, when Thomas Merrell of the West Division Parish (West Hartford) sold three quarters of an acre to the Town of Hartford. From time to time there were additions, the last in 1852. West . . . — — Map (db m97552) HM
West Hartford
In 1672-1677 Hartford created the West Division by sub-dividing a tract bounded by Quaker Lane, Mountain Road, and the towns of Bloomfield and Newington. Later this was enlarged by lands from Hartford and Farmington. Our first . . . — — Map (db m53370) HM
Nathaniel Foote
The Settler
Born In England 1593
Died In Wethersfield 1644
Erected By The
Foote Family Association
Of America
On The Original Home Lot
September 7, 1908 — — Map (db m46180) HM
To The Memory
Of The Adventurers From
Watertown, Massachusetts
Who Settled Wethersfield
In 1634
John Oldham • Robert Seeley • John Strickland • Andrew Ward • John Clarke • Leonard Chester • Nathaniel Foote • Abraham Finch • Robert Rose • . . . — — Map (db m46179) HM
This marks the road to Bissell’s Ferry, established by the General Court of Connecticut in 1641. Operated by the Bissell family for nearly one hundred years. Later leased to various townsmen and continuously operated until 1917. The original . . . — — Map (db m65727) HM
To the Founders of Windsor
and
The First Congrgational Church
In Connecticut
Which Came to America
In the Mary and John With
Its Pastor – John Warham
May 30, 1635
Settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts
And Migrated To Windsor . . . — — Map (db m99589) HM
Major John Mason
Born 1600 in England
Immigrated to New England in 1630
A Founder of Windsor, Old Saybrook and Norwich
Magistrate and Chief Military Officer of the Connecticut Colony
Deputy Governor and Acting Governor
A Patentee of the . . . — — Map (db m99588) HM
On the brow of the hill overlooking the meadow
stood the Old Stone Fort or Stoughton House. It was
in two portions, one stone, probably the older, and one wood. At the north end was a door of heavy oak
timbers studded with iron spikes, which bore . . . — — Map (db m28364) HM
Original homestead of John and Thomas Hoskins,
father and son, who arrived on the Mary and John
from England in 1630. They were members of the
Dorcester party that settled Windsor north of the
Rivulet in 1632. Goodman John Hoskins served as
a . . . — — Map (db m28369) HM
1614 Six years before pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Dutch lawyer and sea captain, Adrian
Block (after whom Block Island is named) discovers and explores the Connecticut River
as far north as the Enfield Falls, where he is forced to turn back . . . — — Map (db m208605) HM
Barkhamsted
Named for Barkhamsted in Hertfordshire, England, this area was part of the Western Lands granted by the proprietors of Windsor to 108 persons of that town in 1732. The first highway through the town was the New Country Road, better . . . — — Map (db m29849) HM
Marker Front:
The spring session of the 1703 General Assembly granted to the town of Woodbury the right to enlarge its bounds. Negotiations with the Indian inhabitants were successfully concluded and in 1710 a deed of sale, signed by . . . — — Map (db m26488) HM
In 1722 Samuel Clark, an original proprietor of New Milford, had a portion of his share of land surveyed in the southerly part of that town known as Shepaug Neck. Although this later became known as Bridgewater, it was not incorporated as a separate . . . — — Map (db m20259) HM
The Town of Canaan, established in 1738, is known as Falls Village because of the Great Falls of the Housatonic where a power company dam was built in 1912-13. Early industrial prominence resulted from a saw mill and grist mill built at the Falls . . . — — Map (db m41850) HM
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Colebrook
The last town in colonial Connecticut to be settled, Colebrook was named after a town in Devonshire, England. The reason is now unknown, The year 1765 saw Benjamin Horton, leader of a trickle of settlers, arrive amid . . . — — Map (db m30003) HM
Hale Barn and Trail
In front of you stands the Hale Barn, a vanishing example of 18th century barns that once graced much of the Connecticut countryside. Today, it is owned by the Colebrook Land Conservancy and is protected along with the 38 acres . . . — — Map (db m30240) HM
Cornwall
This area was once part of the Western Lands ordered surveyed by the Legislature in 1731. Yale Lands were surveyed and three hundred acres were set aside for income for Yale College in 1732. At an auction in Fairfield in 1738 the town was . . . — — Map (db m41824) HM
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Goshen
The town was settled in 1738 and incorporated in 1739. Many of the early residents came from Wallingford and Farmington. The Congregational Church was founded in 1740. An Episcopal society existed prior to 1776. During . . . — — Map (db m30229) HM
Harwinton
The town was settled in 1731, named in 1732 from Harry(tford) and Win(dsor), and became incorporated in October, 1737. Located on the Hartford-Litchfield Turnpike, Harwinton was primarily an agricultural community with many part-time . . . — — Map (db m29788) HM
Liberty Tree Memorial
This American Liberty Elm was named after "The Liberty Tree: Our Country's first Symbol of Freedom." On the morning of August 14, 1765, the people of Boston awakened to discover two effigies suspended from an elm tree in . . . — — Map (db m29765) HM
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Litchfield
The "Greenwoods" or "Western Lands" of Connecticut were explored in 1715 by John Marsh of Hartford, purchased for fifteen pounds from the Potatuck Indians, who called the area "Bantam", and first settled in 1720. In . . . — — Map (db m229370) HM
Stone Walls
as increased farming began to change Litchfield's landscape, farmers discovered large deposits of granite and gneiss rocks in the ground. The farmers dug up and hauled away these stones as the land was cleared for crops and . . . — — Map (db m230289) HM
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Morris
Originally called South Farms, this area was settled in the 1720's as part of the frontier town of Litchfield. The land was surveyed by Captaiin John Marsh in 1715 and was purchased for fifteen pounds from the bantam . . . — — Map (db m28399) HM
On this plot was raised in 1739, the first
meeting house of New Hartford and on these
very foundations the second church was built
in 1829. After 1854 it was no longer used as a place
of worship and was finally removed in 1929.
For . . . — — Map (db m102033) HM
This American Liberty Elm was named after “The Liberty Tree: Our Country’s first Symbol of Freedom.” On the morning of August 14, 1765, the people of Boston awakened to discover two
effigies suspended from an elm tree in protest of the hated Stamp . . . — — Map (db m93049) HM
In 1732 the Connecticut General Assembly gave Hartford and Windsor permission to establish seven towns in the colony’s Western Lands. New Hartford was given to 182 Hartford taxpayers who became the new town’s proprietors. They organized and hired . . . — — Map (db m92607) HM
On May 17, 1764, blacksmith Daniel Burritt took possession of an eight-acre parcel of land that would eventually become known as the Historical Society's Knapp House. Between 1764 and 1774 when he sold the property to Benjamin Seelye, Daniel . . . — — Map (db m230234) HM
This beautiful valley known to the Potatuck Indians as Weantinock, was purchased from them in 1703 by a company of individuals chiefly from Milford, Connecticut, hence the name New Milford. Its earliest white inhabitant, Zachariah . . . — — Map (db m22750) HM
On the site of this building
once lived
Roger Sherman
Born 1721 – Died 1793
One of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence — — Map (db m20922) HM
In the heart of the Green Woods on what was later the Hartford-Albany Turnpike, Norfolk was settled in 1744 by Cornelius Brown of Windsor. The town was incorporated in 1758 with forty-four voters at the first town meeting. A meeting house was . . . — — Map (db m29687) HM
Birth of an Industry
The Iron Works of The 1700's
Iron forges came early to the Blackberry River, with the first Catalan forge built in 1739 downstream from this point. About this time young Samuel Forbes (1729-1827) arrived on the scene, first . . . — — Map (db m41979) HM
First Congregational Church of Plymouth
The First Congregational Church had its beginnings as the Ecclesiastical Society of Northbury, established in 1739. The first meetinghouse was completed during the 1760s. The second meetinghouse was . . . — — Map (db m90830) HM
Plymouth Burying Ground
1747
National Register of Historic Places
Here lie buried Veterans of the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.
The gravestones are in rows running north and south. The bodies were placed . . . — — Map (db m90734) HM
The History of the East Plymouth and St. Matthew's Cemetery
East Plymouth (also known as East Church), located at the boundary convergence of Bristol, Plymouth and Harwinton, became a distinct community largely because of events occurring in . . . — — Map (db m90893) HM
Plymouth
First settled in the 1720's on land acquired from the Tunxis Indians, the Town of Plymouth, originally named Northbury, was incorporated in 1795. It includes the communities of Plymouth, Terryville, Pequabuck (formerly Susanville), East . . . — — Map (db m28095) HM
The Old Terryville Cemetery features the graves of over 120 of Terryville's earliest residents. The earliest grave is believed to be Francis A. Lewis, who died May 5th, 1832 at the age of one year and five months. The families interred here . . . — — Map (db m90665) HM
1713 - First structure by white settlers built near Shepaug River.
1732 - 33 – First meeting house erected. Old Roxbury Road.
1743 – Roxbury parish established by Connecticut General Assembly.
Birthplace of three cousins of . . . — — Map (db m17761) HM
The Town of Salisbury was incorporated in 1741. The Congregational meeting house, built 1749-1751, in the exact center of the town, survives as the core of the present Town Hall. The original agrcultural settlement was rich in iron ore deposits, . . . — — Map (db m42047) HM
Dedicated
In Grateful Tribute To
The Men And Women Of
Sharon
Who Have Served Our Country
Since The Founding Of The Town
In 1739 — — Map (db m42126) HM WM
Sharon
The first grant of land in Sharon, later known as the "Jackson Patent" near Amenia Union, was surveyed in 1732, at which time the boundaries of the Town were established. The patent was granted in 1734 by the General Assembly of the Colony . . . — — Map (db m42122) HM
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Thomaston
Originally part of the Farmington Proprietors' purchase in 1684 of Mattatuck Plantation, the Thomaston area achieved independence in 1739, being set off as the Northbury Parish. In 1780 Northbury and Westbury united . . . — — Map (db m28139) HM
Named in 1732 for Torrington in Devonshire, England, this was one of the townships of the Western Lands allotted to Windsor. Since the early settlers were taxpayers in that town, their shares in the division of land depended upon the amount of taxes . . . — — Map (db m56057) HM
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Warren
This area was settled in 1737 as part of the Town of Kent. A separate ecclesiastical society called the Society of East Greenwich, established in 1750, led to the founding of a church in 1756 and a separate town in . . . — — Map (db m29171) HM
Side A
This township includes the villages of Woodville, New Preston, Marbledale, Washington, and Washington Depot. The eastern section, first settled by Joseph Hurlbut in 1734, was known as the Parish of Judea and belonged to Woodbury. The . . . — — Map (db m17437) HM
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To commemorate the suffering and torture inflicted by the Indians upon Jonathan Scott and Hannah Hawkes, his wife, the first permanent settlers of Watertown, this memorial is erected by the Waterbury and Watertown Chapters . . . — — Map (db m31165) HM
Sacred to the Memory
of the Rev'd John Trumbull
senior Pastor of the Church of Christ
in Westbury
And one of the Fellows of the Corporation
of Yale College;
Who died December 8th AD 1787
In the Seventy third Year of his Age,
And . . . — — Map (db m31162) HM
The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon . . . — — Map (db m18931) HM
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Winchester
In 1686 the General Court of the Connecticut Colony granted to the town of Hartford and Windsor "… lands on the north of Woodbury … and on the west of … Simsbury … to make a plantation or villages theron." Later . . . — — Map (db m29904) HM
In past times the ancient paths in Connecticut were formed by large animals as they moved with the seasons and migrated to salt deposits. The Native Americans followed these same paths as they hunted these animals, traded with other tribes and also . . . — — Map (db m112637) HM
In 1659 citizens of Stratford purchased from the Pegasset Indians the land, then called Pomperaug Plantation, that is now occupied by Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bethlehem and parts of Washington, Middlebury and Oxford. It was re-named Woodbury in . . . — — Map (db m17607) HM
Chester
Chester is located on land known as Pattaconk or Pattyquounck in Indian deeds of the 1660's. Settled largely by families from Saybrook, it became the Fourth Ecclesiastical Society of the Saybrook Congregational Church in 1740 and was . . . — — Map (db m100313) HM
You are standing beside the Indian River in the heart of the 1663 settlement of Killingworth, sited on its protective harbor. In 1838, the shoreline portion parted from northern Killingworth and became Clinton.
Shipbuilding
The first . . . — — Map (db m100187) HM
1. Congregational Church
This Classic Rivival sanctuary dates from 1837 and is the fourth church building to have been located on Meeting House Hill. In front of the church stands in the monument honoring Abraham Pierson and the . . . — — Map (db m227288) HM
1. Indian River
At the center of the Colonial settlement, this stream winds south through salt marshes to the harbor. Shipyards stood on its banks in the 18th and 19th centuries. The bridge dates from the 1876, replacing an an earlier . . . — — Map (db m227290) HM
Clinton
Settled in 1663 and then known as Homonoscitt Plantation, this shoreline and rural community soon thereafter was given the name Kenilworth and later Killingworth. In 1735 the First and Second Ecclesiastical Societies were established being . . . — — Map (db m100158) HM
In honor of the founding of the Homenossitt Plantation which grew and prospered and became the Town of Clinton.
The week of July 28 - August 4, 1963 was set set aside for a townewide celebration embracing the many events of Clinton's . . . — — Map (db m227289) HM
This replica of the milestone placed here in the mid 1700s marks 25 miles to New Haven. Benjamin Franklin, then Colonial Postmaster General, determined the sites of these markers along the Post Road connecting New York and Boston.
Clinton . . . — — Map (db m242980) HM
The Work of the Salt Marsh
You are standing at the edge of an ancient marsh, above layers of peat forty feet deep. Once an inland freshwater lake, the Hammock estuary is now flooded twice daily by nutrient-rich salt tides.
Tidal salt . . . — — Map (db m243105) HM
The Earliest Senior Classes Of
Yale College
Were Taught Near This Spot By
Rector Abraham Pierson
1701 to 1707
( inscribed around the top )
I Give These Books For Founding A College
( back )
In Memoriam
Abraham Pierson . . . — — Map (db m100160) HM
Cromwell
This area was settled in 1650 as a rural-farming community known as Middletown Upper Houses. It was incorporated and named Cromwell in 1851. The 18th century saw a thriving riverport. followed by brownstone quarrying and several factories . . . — — Map (db m99538) HM
Middletown Upper Houses
1650
Founders 1650 — 1680
John Clark · Samuel Hall · John Kirby · Anthony Martin · Thomas Renney · David Sage · John Savage · Samuel Stocking · Thomas Stow · John Warner · Nathaniel White · John Wilcox . . . — — Map (db m99547) HM
Durham
Coginchaug or “Long Swamp” was purchased from the Indians in 1673. A town plot was laid out in 1699, named Durham five years later, under a patent from King Charles II, and was confirmed by the General Assembly in 1708. It was . . . — — Map (db m94697) HM
Side A 1714-1789
Near this Green was the site of
the General’s Farm, Store
and dwelling house
Side B
1714-1789
Officer in the French & Indian
and Revolutionary Wars
Delegate to the Continental Congress . . . — — Map (db m101985) HM
This land was part of an original purchase from the Indians in 1662 for thirty coats – about $100. It included Machimoodus, “the place of noises”, so named from subterranean sounds formerly heard there. Layout of highways began in 1669. The first . . . — — Map (db m83886) HM
East Hampton
Incorporated 1767
East Hampton was first settled in 1710, when Gideon Goffe and is family located in an area along the Connecticut River which later became established as the parish of Middle Haddam. Families from the locality moved . . . — — Map (db m84010) HM
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