About 1650, a handful of English colonists began settling Middletown – then called by its Native American name, Mattabesseck or Mattabesett. The first colonists did not come directly from England, but from early New England settlements like . . . — — Map (db m98604) HM
The potato famine that ravaged Ireland in the late 1840s brought poverty and starvation to the Irish people. To survive, more than a million Irish fled their home coming to America on vessels so crowded and disease-ridden that they were termed . . . — — Map (db m98606) HM
Immigrants from Italy settled in Middletown as early as the 1860s, and for several decades the Italian population here increased slowly. Then, at the turn of the 20th century, the trickle of immigrants became a virtual flood. Hundreds of families . . . — — Map (db m98687) HM
On this site, on a spring evening in 1834, a violent mob descended on a small group of Middletown residents who had come together to work towards abolishing slavery. The abolitionists, both black and white citizens, were members of the newly . . . — — Map (db m71118) HM
Middletown became of the richest towns in all New England in the 1700s. during that time, thousands of ships loaded with local products like lumber, barrels, horses, pigs, corn, butter, and beef.
The ships sailed down the Connecticut River and . . . — — Map (db m98690) HM
About 1828, a handful of Middletown's black residents gathered to worship in the home of Asa Jeffrey, a sea man who lived on Cross Street almost opposite here. The group formed the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Middletown's first black . . . — — Map (db m98689) HM
The battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War, began early on the morning of September 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Joseph Mansfield, a 58-year-old general in the Union army, waited anxiously for the signal to lead his ten . . . — — Map (db m98542) HM
Launched in 1994, the International and inter-regional project ‘The Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage’ addresses the history of the slave trade and slavery through the prism of intercultural dialogue, a culture of peace and . . . — — Map (db m233446) HM
From the peak of the grassy hill behind these gates, Sowheag, leader of the Wangunks, could see for miles, observing the round-topped wigwams of his people in small settlements on both sides of the Connecticut River. The Wangunks called this area . . . — — Map (db m98684) HM
Each of the maple trees that form the "Road of Remembrance" on Washington Green honor a Middletown soldier or sailor who gave his life in World War I. Middletown citizens planted 33 trees on November 14, 1920 to commemorate the city's fallen sons. . . . — — Map (db m98681) HM
In 1825, a visitor standing here would have seen a crowd of boys clad in soldiers uniforms, practicing military drills, or racing to their classes. The cadets, as they were called, were students at the new American Literary, Scientific and . . . — — Map (db m98686) HM
In Memory of
William J. Johnston
Dedicated - 2001
Congressional Medal of
Honor Recipient
Private First Class – U.S. Army
“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in action . . . — — Map (db m100092) WM
Captain Adriaen Block was a Dutch trader and privateer who journeyed to the Hudson River and Manhattan Island in 1611 to trade for fur with the Lenape people who lived there. Between 1611 and 1614, Block made four voyages during which he explored . . . — — Map (db m227279) HM
Adrian Block was an attorney and an explorer from the Netherlands that had an eye for profitable enterprise. The market for furs in Europe was tremendous in the early 17th century and Block was looking to make his fortune by selling beaver pelts . . . — — Map (db m182714) HM
The first African-American female pharmacist in Connecticut, proprietor of the James Pharmacy and beloved member of the community for generations of residents and visitors. Known to all as "Miss James," she represented the humanitarian spirit that . . . — — Map (db m227270) HM
The Pequot War was the first major conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America. It began in September 1636, lasted eleven months, and involved thousands of Native and English peoples who fought several major . . . — — Map (db m181051) HM WM
The Pequot War was the first major conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America. It began in September 1636, lasted eleven months, and involved thousands of Native and English peoples who fought several major . . . — — Map (db m181994) HM
The Pequot War was the first major conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America. It began in September 1636, lasted eleven months, and involved thousands of Native and English peoples who fought several major . . . — — Map (db m182310) HM
The Pequot War was the first major conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America. It began in September 1636, lasted eleven months, and involved thousands of Native and English peoples who fought several major . . . — — Map (db m182709) HM
The Pequot War was the first major conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America. It began in September 1636, lasted eleven months, and involved thousands of Native and English peoples who fought several major . . . — — Map (db m183079) HM
Saybrook and the Collegiate School English settlers arrived in Saybrook in 1635 and for the next several years endured warfare with the native peoples, the loss of approximately half the population to settle Norwich, and the hardship of . . . — — Map (db m182035) HM
Connecticut Valley Railroad
Roundhouse & Turntable Site
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
April 28, 1994 — — Map (db m182038) HM
History of Saybrook Colony
Saybrook Colony was established at the mouth of the Connecticut River, about 1/2 mile from this location, by English Puritans in 1635 under the leadership of Lieutenant Lion Gardiner who built a fort and laid out a . . . — — Map (db m182001) HM
This Property has been
Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Doctor
Samuel Eliot
House
c 1737 — — Map (db m181997) HM
Because of the combination of fresh and saltwater habitats at the river's mouth, a wide variety of fish species have the opportunity to feed, reproduce and/or establish populations.
The Native American diet depended on this variety and . . . — — Map (db m227284) HM
The first fort at Saybrook Point, built in 1630, was similar to other English coastal settlements. Lion Gardiner designed the fort in the European tradition as a square, palisaded fortification containing several structures, surrounded by an . . . — — Map (db m182723) HM
On August 21, 1824, General Lafayette reached Saybrook where he spent the night while traveling from New York City to Boston, MA. — — Map (db m227271) HM
The shifting sand bar at the mouth of the river made it difficult for large ships to negotiate the shallow harbor. The first Lynde Point Lighthouse built in 1803, a wooden octagonal tower 35 feet high, warned ships of the sandbar that blocked much . . . — — Map (db m182307) HM
In 1635 Lieutenant Lion Gardiner, a tall redheaded military engineer, was engaged by Governor John Winthrop, Jr. to build a fort and lay out a town for the Warwick Patentees. His contract was for a period of four years at an annual salary of 100 . . . — — Map (db m182730) HM
Dedicated to Preserving, Protecting and Promoting the History of Old Saybrook
Frank Stevenson Archives
Frank Stevenson (1912-1997) Frank Stevenson, a lifelong Saybrook resident, tended the lawns, plants, houses and people of the North . . . — — Map (db m181142) HM
General William Hart House, 1767 The General William Hart House, 1767, on the National Register of Historic Places, is a Living Symbol of our American Heritage. This Georgian colonial was built by a young man of means from a prominent family . . . — — Map (db m239187) HM
Erected By The Citizens Of
Old Saybrook
In Memory Of Her Sons
Who Died At War
World War I
Harry Faulk
World War II
Gildo Baldoni • Robert Delap • Dominic Evangelisti • Wendel Fifield • Francis Dibble Harvey • John LaCastro • Robert . . . — — Map (db m78810) WM
In Memory Of
Old Saybrook’s
Sons Who
Served
( back )
Honor Roll
-- Army --
* Faulk Harry G. • Allen Benjamin K. • Allen William P. • Beach Hart Jarvis • Beard Joel M. • Bogue Edward S. • Bowe Daniel C. • Bowe Edward A. • Briggs Frank L. . . . — — Map (db m78808) WM
Say Brooke Fort
Commanded by
Colonel George Fenwick
At the mouth of the Great River
Near this place stood the First
English Fort in the Colony of
Connecticut built in 1635
It was destroyed by fire in
1647. Beyond it on the bank
of . . . — — Map (db m183083) HM
Say-Brooke
Founded November 1635. First English settlement on south shore of New England. Named for Viscount Say and Seale and Robert, Lord Brooke, two of the group of English nobility and gentry who, in 1632, received a patent from Robert, Earl of . . . — — Map (db m180991) HM
The only river that flows the length of New England, 400 miles from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound, the Connecticut River is often compared in its beauty to the Hudson and Rhine Rivers. It has withstood intensive development mainly . . . — — Map (db m182720) HM
The Connecticut State Charter for the Connecticut Valley Railroad was obtained July 17, 1868. Surveys for the right of way, largely following the banks of the Connecticut River from Hartford to Saybrook Point, were completed in 1869. Track . . . — — Map (db m182039) HM
George Fenwick, the only Warwick Patentee to settle in Saybrook, arrived here in 1639 to become its second Governor and to replace Lion Gardiner. With his wife and son, two sisters and servants, he took up residence in the great hall within the . . . — — Map (db m182728) HM
Prior to the construction of a railroad bridge in 1862 and an automobile bridge in 1911, ferries provided the only passenger service from Saybrook across the Connecticut River. The earliest ferries were powered by various combinations of sail, oar, . . . — — Map (db m182303) HM
The English settlers had no trouble making friends with the native River Indians but found it impossible to pacify the Pequots, who in 1633 murdered a party of nine Englishmen at the mouth of the River.
After Fort Saybrook was built, three . . . — — Map (db m182726) HM
Ever since Adrian Block's discovery of the Connecticut River in 1614, the extensive bar at its mouth has been an obstacle for mariners, preventing vessels of deep draft from entering. The runoff from the source of the river in Canada traveling . . . — — Map (db m182715) HM
Ever Since Adrian Block's discovery of the Connecticut River in 1614, the elusive bar at its mouth has been an obstacle to mariner, preventing vessels of deep draft from entering. The runoff from the source of the river in Canada . . . — — Map (db m227281) HM
Third Meetinghouse
Congregational
From 1726-1839 the Third Meetinghouse stood on this Church Green on land generously given by John Pratt and his son, Isaac. Measuring 48 feet long by 38 feet wide, the building's main entrance was located on . . . — — Map (db m180992) HM
Fort Saybrook Monument Park consists of nearly 18 acres, about eleven of which are marshland. The park adjoins the mouth of the Connecticut River, a major New England estuary and tidal river. It has been recognized by an international convention . . . — — Map (db m182308) HM
Fort Saybrook Monument Park consists of nearly 18 acres, about eleven of which are marshland. The park adjoins the mouth of the Connecticut River, a major New England estuary and tidal river. It has been recognized by an international convention . . . — — Map (db m182719) HM
Native Peoples
Fort Saybrook Monument Park consists of nearly 18 acres, about 11 of which are marshland, and borders the Connecticut River called by Native Americans "quineteckut" or "long, tidal river." Prior to the arrival of Europeans in . . . — — Map (db m227286) HM
The Earl of Warwick, President of the Council for New England, received from King James I, the right to settle the area from Narragansett River to the Pacific. In 1631 he conveyed the Patent to 15 Puritan Lords and Gentlemen for refuge in case the . . . — — Map (db m182721) HM
Near Here Was
The First Site of
Yale College
Founded in 1701
Known then as
The Collegiate School
Removed in 1716
( back )
The heirs of Alfred F. Wolcott purchased and gave this site to the Town of Old Saybrook on April 1914 . . . — — Map (db m182032) HM
The Holt Brothers and Redding Iron Works of California manufactured and shipped logging arches, throughout the United States in the late 1800's. Pulled by teams of oxen, arches were used in Portland to transfer cut brownstone from the quarries. . . . — — Map (db m216460) HM
Formerly known as East Middletown (1714-1767), later as Chatham (1767-1841), Portland was incorporated in 1841. Land had been granted on the east side of the Connecticut River in 1652; the first permanent settler, James Stancliff, a stone cutter, . . . — — Map (db m216455) HM
Just west of here are Portland's Brownstone Quarries, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998. The history of Portland is a remarkable reflection of the immigration patterns and technology associated with the American Industrial . . . — — Map (db m216456) HM
Portland: “A History Carved in Brownstone”
Early colonists in Connecticut gazed across to the eastern shore of the big bend in the Connecticut River at the outcroppings of reddish-brown sandstone. Little did they know that this stone . . . — — Map (db m140234) HM
Erected
May30, 1872
By the Town of Portland.
To the Memory of Her Brave Sons
Who GAVE Their Lives in Defence of The Union
During the War of The Rebellion
1861 – 65.
Samuel N. Gaston, Co. D. 20. C.V. Died June 21, 1863. . . . — — Map (db m140232) WM
This community was settled in 1648 as Pochoug, an Indian word meaning "at the confluence of two rivers", the Pochoug and the Menunketesuck, by residents of the Saybrook Colony. Pochoug was the dwelling place of Obed and his tribe until 1676. The . . . — — Map (db m246369) HM
1914 1919
Westbrook Honor Roll
Not Only To Our Own,
But To Those In The Service
Who Have Made Westbrook Their Summer Home
We Offer Our Gratitude And Affection
Avery Frederick R. · Boehm Joseph J. · Buell George R. · Bushnell Benajah . . . — — Map (db m100208) WM
Westbrook Honor Roll
Korean Conflict
June 27, 1950 – October 27, 1953
Beaber, Edward J. · Beaber, Ferdinand M. · Brainard, Charles F. · Brainard, Gordon G. · Brown, Frederick R. · Culver, Donald C. · Cyphers, Albert H. · Dibble, George E. . . . — — Map (db m100213) WM
Westbrook Honor Roll
Vietnam Conflict
January 1, 1964 — July 1, 1975
Bakoledis, Dennis · Bakoledis, Stanley · Bassett, Phg J. · Baxter, Nordell J.,Jr. · Beck, Victor C. · Blouin, Rickie N. · Bluss, Ainars · Bradley, David C. · Broggi, . . . — — Map (db m100211) WM
In Grateful Appreciation
To Westbrook’s Men and Women of World War II
Who Stood - A Selfless Wall Against The March Of Greed
They Fought For Peace – And Not Possession
★Calderari, Donald ★Hoxsie, Theron E. . . . — — Map (db m100210) WM
Westbrook’s Civil War Soldiers
Fought for the Union All, But One
1861 – 1865
Honored here through the efforts of the Westbrook Historical Society
Funded by the Westbrook Foundation
Boone, Christopher W. · Burdick, Leroy S. · Bushnell, . . . — — Map (db m100212) WM
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