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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Hartford County, Connecticut
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| | Duty Honor Country
[ column 1 ]
U.S. Army Suppression of Pequots (1637) King Philip's War (1675 – 76) Jobanna Smith French & Indian Skirmishes (1711 – 12) Defense Of Litchfield (1724) Louisburg Expedition . . . — — Map (db m33068) HM |
| | Lest We Forget
In honor and grateful remembrance of our French Allies in the Revolution, whose army, under the command of General Count de Rochambeau, marched past this spot enroute from Newport and Providence, R.I., to join General Washington on . . . — — Map (db m33769) HM |
| | Site of U.S. Army Air Corps P47 Thunderbolt plane crash in which the pilot Second Lieutenant Vincent Hugh Core died on April 11, 1945 — — Map (db m91860) HM WM |
| | On this site in 1828 was located "Pitkin's Basin" for the Farmington Canal Company.
On November 10, 1828 the packet boat "James Hillhouse" was launched here on its first voyage to New Haven from port of Farmington.
The gray building . . . — — Map (db m106441) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m33012) HM |
| | The Farmington Canal crossed various topographic features- rivers, hills, roads and woodlands. Boats traveling the length of the canal passed through 28 locks that compensated for changes in elevation. Perhaps the most impressive engineering . . . — — Map (db m111590) HM |
| | The Farmington Canal
The 56-mile Farmington Canal was Connecticut's super-highway of the 1830s and 1840s. Begun in 1825, the canal was the largest engineering project ever attempted in New England. Inspired by the commercial success of the . . . — — Map (db m33017) HM |
| | In the middle 1800s, it is believed, the cave was the home of Farmingtons mystery man, Will Warren. He was a poor farmhand with no property of his own. He refused to attend the village church on Sundays and spent his free time with the few Native . . . — — Map (db m92260) HM |
| | The Unionville Feeder Canal crossed here, providing most of the water for the Farmington Canal, from Granby, CT to New Haven, CT 1828-1847. — — Map (db m127444) HM |
| | Yodkins-Morin Memorial Park
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Dedicated to two valiant men who gave their lives
saving others during the raging flood of August 1955
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Charles J. Yodkins, Sr
A Farmington Police Officer
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Joseph J. Morin, . . . — — Map (db m33063) HM |
| | The
First Meeting House
Stood Near This Spot
In 1692
Timothy Stevens
Pastor
Connecticut Tercentenary
1635 1935 — — Map (db m98861) HM |
| |
Formerly part of Wethersfield, the town was named for Glastonbury in England. Its thirty four original farms, running from the River three miles east “into the wilderness,” were the first officially surveyed by Connecticut Colony, . . . — — Map (db m98863) HM |
| | Korean War
Peter P. Monaco, Jr. USMC
And Honoring Those Who Served
The United States and United
Nations, 1950 - 1953 — — Map (db m98830) WM |
| | 1775 – 1783
Dedicated to
The Men and Women
Who Aided In
The Fight for Freedom
And Independence
During
The American Revolution — — Map (db m98831) WM |
| | Erected in Memory of
Capt. Frederick M. Barber
And the Soldiers of Glastonbury
Who Gave Their Lives for Their Country.
By Mercy Turner Barber.
1918
1861 Civil War 1865
More enduring than this monument will be the memory of their . . . — — Map (db m98832) WM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m98836) WM |
| | 1941 1945
World War II
A Tribute to the Men and Women
Who Served Their Country.
In Honor of These Who Gave Their Lives.
Andrews, Harry E. · Bemer, Steven J. · Boeris, John N. · Carl, Goodrich F. · Chamberlin, Theodore L. · Connell, . . . — — Map (db m98803) WM |
| | In Honor of Those Who Served Their
Country In The Second World War and In Memory Of
Charles Galli Who Was Killed In Action
Herbert Amond · Richard A. Bantle · Everett E. Bantly · Allen F. Behnke · Robert G. Brash · Charles W. Chase, Jr. · . . . — — Map (db m98862) WM |
| | 1917 1919
In Honor of Those of the Town of Glastonbury Who
Answered Their Countrys Call To Serve Humanity
Aborn, Merritt W. · Adams, Charles W. · Ahern, Matthew A. · Antos, Charles F. · Backus, Joseph H. · Barber, George H., M.D. · . . . — — Map (db m98802) WM |
| | In Honor Of
John Lee Levitow
Glastonbury, Connecticut
Sergeant, United States Air Force
3rd Special Operations Squadron
presented
Congressional Medal of Honor
by
President Richard M. Nixon
May 14, 1970
For conspicuous gallantry . . . — — Map (db m98833) WM |
| | Kimberly Tract
This land is part of the original grant east of the great river made to John Robbins of Wethersfield in 1640. The original lot of 132 acres – 22 rods wide – extended three miles from the river into the hills. With Eleazar . . . — — Map (db m98902) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m98865) HM |
| | Site of Second Meeting House
First Church of Christ
Congregational
1735 – 1837
News of the battles of Lexington and Concord
reached here while Rev. John Eells was
preaching and was announced from the pulpit
April 28, 1775 . . . — — Map (db m98901) HM |
| | Granby
Settled as the Salmon Brook section of Simsbury early in the 18th century, and established as a separate ecclesiastical society in 1736, Granby became a separate town in 1786. From the beginning, farming was the main endeavor of the . . . — — Map (db m97450) HM |
| | (South side) (Upper) Col. Richard E. Holcomb June 14, 1863 Surg. W. Horatio Goddard Aug. 18, 1963 8, Regt. Conn. Vols. Inf. Henry Saunders May 17, 1862 Lafayette Tillotson Sept. 17, 1862 10, Regt. Conn. Vols. Inf. Cyrus . . . — — Map (db m56064) HM |
| | We Are Not
Forgotten
Granby Veterans Wall
French and Indian War
Dibble, Bentmen Holcomb, Nathaniel Stratton, Serajah
Revolutionary War
Adams, Ahel Adams, Ephraim Adams, Levi Adams, Timothy Alderman, Gad Alford, . . . — — Map (db m97451) WM |
| | Horace B. Clark, Fire Commissioner the City Hartford was the man responsible
for the development of the Lost Acres Fire Department. Mr. Clark had a large estate “Lost Acres” in North Granby from which the name of the present fire . . . — — Map (db m97449) HM |
| | Site of Original First Congregational Church Meetinghouse 1740-1775 Congregation founded 1739 — — Map (db m56099) HM |
| | North Side For God and Country Post 182 1985 West Side World War II 1941-1946 Gladwin E Allshouse Russell F. Cable Richard J. Creighton, Jr. Edward P Dombkowski Ernest D. Evleth Clifford C. Ferriss, Jr. John C. Kupruck . . . — — Map (db m56097) WM |
| | 1917 1918 In Honor of the Men of Granby who served in The World War Andrews, Evelyn S. Appredries, Charles Armitage, Harold Raymond Avery, Paul L. Boyko, Peter Bradley, Barnard Brigham, Storrs T. Brooks, George Broughton, Roscoe . . . — — Map (db m56098) HM |
| | 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery
Originally 4th Conn. Infantry
Mustered in May 22, 1861
Mustered out Sept. 25 1865
Total enrollment officers and men
3802 Erected by the survivors and friends of the regiment and the veteran and active companies . . . — — Map (db m28358) HM |
| | Abel Buel
1742 – 1825
Engraver, Counterfeiter
Coined the 1786 Fugio Cent
And the Connecticut Cooper,
Had a shop on this site — — Map (db m52555) HM |
| | Adriaen Block
A short distance from
where you are standing,
in 1614
Adriaen Block, captain of the ship Restless
sails up a river from the Atlantic Ocean
which native peoples of the region have named
"Quinnehtukqut", meaning the Great . . . — — Map (db m53151) HM |
| | In Memory of the Courageous
Adventurers
Who Inspired and Directed by
Thomas Hooker Journeyed Through the
Wilderness from Newtown Cambridge)
In the Massachusetts Bay to
Suckiaug (Hartford) – October 1635
Mathew Allyn John Barnard . . . — — Map (db m52432) HM |
| | Alexis de Tocqueville
The 25 year-old French aristocrat and author of
Democracy in America
visited this area
during his 1831 – 1832 tour of America
Tocqueville
C-SPAN
placed by C-SPAN and the cable television industry . . . — — Map (db m52694) HM |
| | On Tuesday, April 15, 1817, in a building located on this site, the Connecticut Asylum for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Persons officially opened. The school was the first in America to teach deaf children and had a class of seven syudents. The . . . — — Map (db m52437) HM |
| | In Memory Of The Men Of
Connecticut
Who Suffered In
Southern Military Prisons
1861 - 1865 — — Map (db m52190) HM |
| | Hartford's first female mayor — — Map (db m151937) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m52547) HM |
| | Boxer, motorcyclist, wordsmith, cartoonist and entertainer, Bob Steel joined WTIC (Travelers Insurance Company) in 1936 when it operated from the 6th floor of this Grove Street building. From here until 1961, from Broadcast House in . . . — — Map (db m151923) HM |
| | The inscribed stone below is the cornerstone of Brownell Hall, which was located on Trinity College's first campus at the present site of the State Capitol in Hartford. Built in 1845 as a dormitory, it was dedicated to the Rt. Rev. Thomas C. . . . — — Map (db m124903) HM |
| | [ east side ]
Deming In Memory Of
Capt. Pownal Deming
Son Of
David Deming & Mehitable Champion
Born Sept. 30, 1749
Died April 9, 1795
[ west side ]
An earnest patriot, he enlisted
in the Continental Army at the . . . — — Map (db m44066) HM |
| | Captain Joseph Wadsworth
Where You Are Standing
On October 31, 1687
Came Sir Edmund Andros to the
meeting house built on this site,
sent by the British Crown
to revoke Connecticut's Charter
and establish the Dominion of New England. . . . — — Map (db m53150) HM |
| | Center
Church
Organized 1632
Founded Hartford in 1636
First Minister
Thomas Hooker
Served
1633-1647 — — Map (db m52439) HM |
| | 97 Elm Street
Chapman-Taft House
Erected by Charles & Sarah Chapman
in 1861. Bought in 1873
by Dr. Cincinnatus A. Taft leading
Hartford physician & Mark Twain's
family doctor. Members of the
Taft family resided here
for nearly forty . . . — — Map (db m52258) HM |
| | Near This Spot
Stood The
Charter Oak
Memorable in the History
of the
Colony of Connecticut
As The Hiding Place Of The
Charter
October 31, 1687
The Tree Fell
August 21, 1856
[ back ]
1905
This Monument
Erected by . . . — — Map (db m52339) HM |
| | Christ Church
Cathedral
Diocese of Connecticut
Episcopal
Founded as Christ Church 1762
Set Apart as Cathedral 1919
Present Building 1828
The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas
Bishop of Connecticut
The Very Rev. Mark B. Pendleton . . . — — Map (db m44074) HM |
| |
In memory of the Trinity men who fought for the principles in which they believed with the Union and Confederate forces in the Civil War and of those who gave "the last full measure of devotion"
This Gun formed part of the Main Battery of . . . — — Map (db m125008) WM |
| | In Memory Of
Col. Thomas Knowlton
Of Ashford Conn.
Who as a boy served in several campaigns in the French and Indian Wars
Shared in the siege and capture of Havana in 1762
Was in immediate command of Connecticut troops at the Battle of . . . — — Map (db m52189) HM |
| | Columbus
Presented
To The City Of Hartford
By Its
Italian-American
Citizens
Dedicated
October 12, 1926 — — Map (db m52341) HM |
| | ConfuciusConfucius (551 B.C. to 479 B.C.), with the given name Qiu and stylized name Zhongni, was a native of Lu State (now Qufu city of Shandong Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. He was a great thinker, educator and . . . — — Map (db m52259) HM |
| |
[Armed Forces Seals]
[List of Major US Wars] — — Map (db m117433) WM |
| | Dwight D. Eisenhower made a presidential campaign address here October 22, 1952 — — Map (db m151926) HM |
| |
This sculpture by Elbert Weinberg was commissioned by The Hartford Courant as part of a program initiated by Northeast magazine to bring works by distinguished Connecticut artists into the public domain. The abstract composition is made of . . . — — Map (db m117425) HM |
| | [ south plaque ]
1771 Memorial 1912
To The Deceased Members Of
The First Company Governor's Foot Guard
Hartford Connecticut
Erected By The
Veteran Corps
Dedicated June 1912
[ north plaque]
1771
Captain Samuel . . . — — Map (db m43772) HM |
| |
First speech in Hartford on the grounds of this Church May 18, 1843
"[We found several towns in which people closed their doors and refused to entertain the subject. Notably among those were Hartford, Conn., and Grafton, Mass. . . . — — Map (db m151933) HM |
| | Along this avenue, once called Front Street, thousands of immigrants came after leaving their war-ravaged, poverty-stricken countries in search of freedom and a better life. They helped to build the City of Hartford, the roads on which their . . . — — Map (db m52563) HM |
| | Pulaski
"I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it . . ."
General Casimir Pulaski
was born in Poland in 1748. He led the unsuccessful revolt of Polish Patriots against Russia. Upon arrival in America . . . — — Map (db m52343) HM |
| |
Where You Are Standing
On September 20, 1780
Waits General George Washington,
Commander-in-Chief of the American Armies
During the American Colonies' Revolution
Against Great Britain.
He has come with Governor Trumbull and . . . — — Map (db m52783) HM |
| | George Washington
was entertained by
Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth in his home on this site on June 30, 1775 when on his way to Cambridge to assume command of the Army.
On September 21, 22, 23, 1780 with Lafayette, General Knox and Governor . . . — — Map (db m151930) HM |
| | [ south side ]
George Wyllys
Born 1590 in Fenny Compton Co Warwick England
Came to Hartford 1638
Deputy Governor of Connecticut 1641
And Governor 1642. Died March 9, 1645
Bridget Young his wife died at Fenny Compton
March 1629 . . . — — Map (db m43771) HM |
| | To Commemorate The
One Hundred Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
Celebration of the Founding in 1771
Of the First Company
Governor's Foot Guard.
General Jonathan M. Wainwright,
Hero of Corregidor and Guest of Honor
at this celebration was . . . — — Map (db m52913) HM |
| | To commemorate the
Two Hundreth Anniversary Celebration
Of the First Company Governor's
Foot Guard, founded in 1771.
The oldest military unit in continuous
service in the United States.
Participating were the Centennial
Legion of . . . — — Map (db m52916) HM |
| | Griffin A. Stedman
Typical Volunteer Soldier
Of the Civil War
Captain
Major
Lieutenant Colonel
Brigadier General
Born at Hartford Conn., January 6, 1838
Killed at Petersburg, Va. August 5, 1864
[ south side ]
This Monument . . . — — Map (db m52319) HM |
| | Harriet Beecher Stowe
Daughter of
The Reverend Lyman and Roxanna Foot Beecher
Born Litchfield Connecticut 14 June 1811
Married at Cincinnati Ohio 6 January 1836
To Calvin Ellis Stowe
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Brunswick Maine in 1851 . . . — — Map (db m53155) HM |
| |
Harry S. Truman
made a presidential
campaign address here
October 27, 1948 — — Map (db m151925) HM |
| |
Hartford was named in 1637 after the English town of Hertford. The Indian name was Suckiaug. The first colonial settlement, called House of Good Hope, was made by the Dutch in 1633. The Reverend Thomas Hooker arrived overland from Newtown . . . — — Map (db m43708) HM |
| | This Property
Has been placed on the
National Register
Of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m52430) HM |
| | Vietnam
1959 – 1975
In
Loving memory
Of Those
Loyal
Men and women
Of Hartford
Who
Served Their
Country
David P Speath Thomas M Neal Allan P Firmneck Roberto Ramos Anthony J Spirito Jr Angel L Diaz Jimmy L . . . — — Map (db m74021) HM |
| | You are now standing where once stood a structure that was an important piece of Hartford history: The Isle of Safety. An exact outline of this iconic structure has been created on the paved walkway behind you.
When it was erected . . . — — Map (db m151922) HM |
| |
Served as secretary to
Admiral Farragut during the
Battle of Mobile Bay
———————————
This Gun
formed part of
the Main Battery of
Admiral Farragut's
Flagship Hartford . . . — — Map (db m124916) HM |
| | Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth
SAR Branch Connecticut
Erected MCMXIII
Here stood the home of Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth Commissary General of the American forces in the War for Independence and a trusted friend of George Washington and "Brother Jonathan . . . — — Map (db m52427) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m43741) HM |
| | In Memory of the First
Settlers of Hartford
Jeremy Adams Matthew Allyn Francis Andrews William Andrews John Arnold Andrew Bacon John Barnard Thomas Barnes Robert Bartlett John Baysey Thomas Beale Nathaniel Bearding Mary . . . — — Map (db m83119) HM |
| |
John F. Kennedy
made a presidential
campaign address here
November 7, 1960 — — Map (db m151927) HM |
| | John Haynes
1594 – 1654
Of Copford Hall. Essex England. Third Governor of Massachusetts. A founder of this commonwealth & its first Governor. A lover of religious liberty. A man trusted and honored.
Near this place he was buried & by . . . — — Map (db m44068) HM |
| | Jonathan Trumbull
Where You Are Standing
From 1768 to 1784
Jonathan Trumbull guides the people of Connecticut
to independence as the colony's Royal Governor.
Governor Trumbull is the only colonial governor
to stand with the patriots . . . — — Map (db m52782) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m52193) HM |
| | Born in Boston, Korczak Ziolkowski was a completely self taught American original of Polish descent. Early in his career, he moved to West Hartford, to establish his studio and begin life as a professional artist. He began to sell commissioned . . . — — Map (db m60005) HM |
| | Last Horse Drawn
Trolley In Hartford
Completed Its Run,
And Went Out Of Service
On This Corner On
May 12, 1895 At 8:48 A.M. — — Map (db m43740) HM |
| | From the Abbey at Storrington, Sussex, England. — — Map (db m124923) HM |
| | On this site, from 1869 until 1963, stood the Hartford Public High School, the second oldest secondary school in the United States. Founded in 1638 as a Latin Grammar School. It became, in 1847, the Hartford Public English and Classical High School. . . . — — Map (db m28374) HM |
| | Lincoln Meets Stowe
Bruno Lucchesi, 2006
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."
This sculpture commemorates the 1862 meeting of Abraham Lincoln and Hartford . . . — — Map (db m52619) HM |
| |
Lyndon B. Johnson
made a presidential
campaign address here
September 28, 1964
— — Map (db m151928) HM |
| | Maj. Thomas Y. SeymourThis plaque and the renaming of this bridge honor the Revolutionary War hero and distinguished citizen of Connecticut, Thomas Y. Seymour. Seymour, who later rose to the rank of Major in the Continental Army, was born June 19, . . . — — Map (db m52560) HM |
| | Major General
Clarence Ransom Edwards DSM
1859 – 1931
Beloved commander of the 26th Division who led
the sons of New England to glorious victory
on the battlefields of France in the World War
1917 - - - 1918
Sponsored by the . . . — — Map (db m52191) HM |
| | Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
1835 - 1910
[ north side ]
One of the nation's most celebrated authors
Mark Twain lived here in Hartford during the peak
of his writing career from 1871 until 1891
Of Hartford, Twain wrote "Of all the . . . — — Map (db m52434) HM |
| | To the
Marquis De La Fayette,
born September 6, 1757,
died May 20, 1834.
A true friend of Liberty, who served as
a Major General in the Continental Army with
“all possible zeal, without any special pay
or allowances” until . . . — — Map (db m3888) HM |
| | Marquis de La Fayette
Where You Are Standing
On September, 1824
Arrives the Marquis de La Fayette in Daniel Wadsworth's carriage drawn by four white horses. Hartford's citizens shout hurrahs, wave banners and throw garlands of flowers at the . . . — — Map (db m43767) HM |
| |
On June 5, 1798, Matthew Furlong was shot dead by Crown forces in New Ross as he approached the Three Bullet Gate carrying a flag of truce and a letter asking for the surrender of the town to the Rebel forces.
This monument serves to . . . — — Map (db m151919) HM |
| |
Nathan Hale,
1755 - 1776. — — Map (db m151932) WM |
| |
To commemorate the Sister City relationship between the peoples of Hartford, Connecticut and New Ross, County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland.
This relationship promotes economic educational and cultural exchanges; and perpetually fosters . . . — — Map (db m151920) HM |
| | "A place of our common grief, our common hopes and our common faith;
a place wherein we may see and feel our sympathy one with another."
Frederick Law Olmstead
Landscape Architect
Old North Cemetery
Hartford's principal municipal burying . . . — — Map (db m53154) HM |
| | Old State House
Has been designated a
Registered National
Historic landmark
Under the provisions of the
Historic sites act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating and illustrating
the history of . . . — — Map (db m52699) HM |
| | Orville Hitchcock Platt
Senator of the United States
MDCCCLXXIX - MCMV — — Map (db m52194) HM |
| |
First US President to ride in an automobile and on that ride he passed this corner
May 22, 1902 — — Map (db m151936) HM |
| | Prudence Crandall
Where You Are Standing
on May 24, 1833
The Connecticut General Assembly passes the Black Law expressly forbidding Prudence Crandall from recruiting African-American women for her school in Canterbury. Prudence refuses to obey . . . — — Map (db m43765) HM |
| | Recapture of the
Connecticut River
1981 – 1999
Dedicated September 3, 1999
On the occasion of the opening of
Riverfront Plaza and Terraces
Founders Bridge Promenade and
State Street Landing
[ left plaque ]
A Historic . . . — — Map (db m52601) HM |
| | Rev. Samuel Stone 1602 – 1663
First Church Teacher and 2nd Pastor
Co-Founded Hartford with Thomas Hooker
Born in Hertford England — — Map (db m43742) HM |
| |
In memory
of the
Rev'd. John Brady,
who died
November 16, 1854,
aged 48.
He was Catholic Pastor
of this City from
1836 to 1854;
and through his Apostolic labors
this Cathedral was erected.
May his soul rest in . . . — — Map (db m151938) HM |
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