On April 26, 1777 this brave sixteen year-old girl rode through the enemy-infested countryside for thirty miles in Putnam County, New York, to warn the local militia that British troops were attacking and plundering Danbury, Connecticut. — — Map (db m25374) HM
Sibyl Ludington rode horseback over this road the night of April 26, 1777, to call out Colonel Luddington's regiment to repel the British at Danbury, Conn. — — Map (db m525) HM
Burial site of Revolutionary war heroes, Col. Henry Ludington and his daughter Sybil, who rode to warn the troops on 26 April 1777 — — Map (db m24513) HM
Sibyl Ludington
Rode horseback over this
road the night of April 26,
1777, to call out Colonal
Ludington’s regiment to
repel British at Danbury, Conn.
State Education
Department 1935 — — Map (db m37253) HM
The revolutionary village which centered about this green with its stores of supplies for the army was sacked and burned by a force of two thousand British April 26, 1777 Warned of the gathering militia the raiders departed next . . . — — Map (db m23542) HM