Cheshire Village in New Haven County, Connecticut — The American Northeast (New England)
Cheshire
Photographed By Michael Herrick, September 10, 2009
1. Cheshire Marker [front]
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Cheshire. . Settled in 1695 as Wallingford “West Farms”, this area obtained status as the village of New Cheshire in 1723. It was incorporated as a town in 1780. Cheshire became famous for its agricultural productivity and light manufacturing. Copper was mined here in the eighteenth century, the mineral barytes in the nineteenth. The Farmington Canal was completed through town in 1825. Cheshire is renowned for the Episcopal Academy, now Cheshire Academy, founded in 1794 by Samuel Seabury, first Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut. Former students include financier John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under President Lincoln; Civil War Admiral Andrew Foote; and Confederate General Joseph Wheeler. ,
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(Continued from other side). The Congregational Church was completed in 1827 to a design by David Hoadley, noted architect of New Haven. Among famous hostelries here were Beach Tavern, the Wallace and Munson Hotels, and the Waverly Inn. Cheshire is the site of the State Correctional Institution founded in 1910, and is the mother-town of Prospect, Connecticut, and Burton, Ohio, Among its famous sons are Governor Samuel A. Foote; Amos Doolittle, early silversmith and engraver; landscape artist John Frederick Kensett; Lambert Hitchcock, maker of popular chairs bearing his name; and Commodore Robert Hitchcock. ,
Erected by the Cheshire American Revolution , Bicentennial Committee , the Town of Cheshire , and the Connecticut Historical Commission , 1976.
Settled in 1695 as Wallingford “West Farms”, this area obtained status as the village of New Cheshire in 1723. It was incorporated as a town in 1780. Cheshire became famous for its agricultural productivity and light manufacturing. Copper was mined here in the eighteenth century, the mineral barytes in the nineteenth. The Farmington Canal was completed through town in 1825. Cheshire is renowned for the Episcopal Academy, now Cheshire Academy, founded in 1794 by Samuel Seabury, first Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut. Former students include financier John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under President Lincoln; Civil War Admiral Andrew Foote; and Confederate General Joseph Wheeler.
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The Congregational Church was completed in 1827 to a design by David Hoadley, noted architect of New Haven. Among famous hostelries here were Beach Tavern, the Wallace and Munson Hotels, and the Waverly Inn. Cheshire is the site of the State Correctional Institution founded in 1910, and is the mother-town of Prospect, Connecticut, and Burton, Ohio, Among its famous sons are Governor Samuel A. Foote; Amos Doolittle, early silversmith and engraver; landscape artist John Frederick Kensett;
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Lambert Hitchcock, maker of popular chairs bearing his name; and Commodore Robert Hitchcock.
Erected by the Cheshire American Revolution Bicentennial Committee the Town of Cheshire and the Connecticut Historical Commission
1976
Erected 1976 by Cheshire American Revolution Bicentennial Committee, Town of Cheshire, Connecticut Historical Commission.
Location. 41° 29.896′ N, 72° 54.11′ W. Marker is in Cheshire, Connecticut, in New Haven County. It is in Cheshire Village. Marker is at the intersection of Church Drive and South Main Street (Connecticut Route 10), on the left when traveling north on Church Drive. Located adjacent to the Hitchcock Phillips House, home of the Cheshire Historical Society. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Cheshire CT 06410, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Also see . . . Cheshire, Connecticut. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on November 8, 2020, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)
Photographed By Michael Herrick, September 16, 2009
3. Cheshire Marker
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