The Battle of Ridgefield, in 1777, was the only inland battle of the Revolutionary War in Connecticut. This etching reveals how Londoners saw the event.
The British army invaded Connecticut in April 1777 - landing in today's Westport and . . . — — Map (db m311724) HM
A Connecticut
Minuteman’s Homestead
At 139 North Street lived Revolutionary War “Minuteman” John Downs (1745 – 1819). A “minuteman” was a patriot who, with the local militia, would respond quickly to an alarm. With . . . — — Map (db m56917) HM
Eells – Stow House
Circa 1700
Home of Samuel Eells and Captain Stephen and Freelove Baldwin Stow. 1752
Recorded property on the National Register of Historic Places — — Map (db m26439) HM
Publisher Hannah Bunce Watson used the Connecticut Courant to spread news about the American Revolution.
Hannah Bunce was born in Lebanon, CT, in 1749. She married Ebenezer Watson, the Courant's publisher; when he died of smallpox . . . — — Map (db m311674) HM
Near this site stood
The home of Robert Treat
A founder of Milford
Deputy Governor and Governor
Of Connecticut 1676 – 1708
Founder of Newark, New Jersey
1665 - 1672 — — Map (db m56918) HM
Site of
King’s Bridge - 1711
connecting
Peacocke Lane (Maple Street)
to Governor’s Lane (Avenue)
Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter
D.A.R.
July 4, 1962 — — Map (db m26331) HM
History of Liberty Rock
Liberty Rock as we call it today was one known as “Hog Rock”. With a little imagination, the rock appears to be in the shape of a hog. Somewhere in the rock can be found the imprint of a hog’s foot.
The . . . — — Map (db m26308) HM
[ east side of the column ]
This Bridge Dedicated
On the 300th Anniversary
Of the Settlement Of
The Town of Milford
A Memorial to Three
Milford Men Who Were
Governors of the Colony
and
State Of Connecticut
[ north side . . . — — Map (db m26445) HM
This area was settled in 1639 as an independent colony by a congregation of English Puritans led by their minister, the Reverend Peter Prudden. Land was purchased from Ansantawae, a sachem of the Paugusset Indians and originally named Wepewaug. It . . . — — Map (db m26324) HM
[ southeast side ]
“We mourn the fallen,
We grieve for the missing,
We celebrate the return of
Our valiant men and women”
[ northeast side ]
Vietnam 1961 – 1973
[ southwest side ]
. . . — — Map (db m26309) WM
[ panel 1 ]
In Grateful Remembrance
World War II 1941 – 1945
and
Korean Conflict 1950
Adams, Thomas D. •
Allison, Eli
[ panel 2 ]
Almquist, Edward F. • Anderson, Christian A. Jr. • Anderson, James H. • . . . — — Map (db m26312) WM
( stones on the large north west tower )
In Memoriam
Robert Treat
For Thirty Years
Governour & Deputy Gov.
of the Colony of
Connecticut
Obit - 1710
Ansantawae
His Mark
1639
Memorial Committee
G.A. Tomlinson P.S. . . . — — Map (db m72854) HM
[ south side ]
Milford Remembers
New York City
Erected by the People of Milford, Connecticut in memory of the innocent victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. With special . . . — — Map (db m26336) HM
This bell obtained by Arctic Engine Company, No. 1, in 1887, served as the City of Milford’s first fire alarm warning system from 1887 into the 1930’s.
It summoned the town’s volunteer firemen to the call of duty when an emergency arose. It was . . . — — Map (db m26314) HM
[ south side plaque ]
Our Honored Dead
May Every Generation
Of Young Americans Be Given
Power to Translate Their Lives In
Terms of Sacrifice for Mankind
List of Milford Dead
Blackhall, Geo B. • Clark, Charles S. . . . — — Map (db m26395) WM
Somewhere in the adjacent cemetery lies the unmarked grave of Peter Pond, a veteran of the French and Indian War, fur trader, explorer and cartographer born in Milford. He helped organize expeditions west of the Great Lakes. He became . . . — — Map (db m54721) HM
Across this harbor, on January 1, 1777, a British ship flying a flag of truce, put ashore 200 American Revolutionary War prisoners, all desperately ill with smallpox. The people of Milford made accomodations to shelter them, using the town hall as . . . — — Map (db m80398) HM
The Explorer, completed in 1936, was the last boat built by the pioneering submarine designer and builder, Simon Lake. The Explorer was intended strictly for research and salvage and was linked to a mother ship for air and power. Divers could enter . . . — — Map (db m27896) HM
[ North Side ]
A Tribute
To the Memory of the Men
Who Risked Their Lives That
The Nation Might Live
1861-1865
[ South Side ]
Erected By
George Van Horn Post
No. 39. G.A.R.
And Friends [ Battle . . . — — Map (db m26311) HM
