Historical Markers and War Memorials in Branford, Connecticut
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Branford is in New Haven County
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On Montowese Street at S Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Montowese Street.
Here, overlooking the tidal river, where they might worship God in their own way, English Puritans from Wethersfield in A.D. 1644 erected the first "foursquare," rough-hewn log meeting house of the First Congregational Church in Branford, then . . . — — Map (db m243108) HM
On Main Street at Town Hall Drive, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Branford
In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded "eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in the English fashion" to the Mattabesec Indians for land known as Totokett (Tidal River). The First permanent settlement was . . . — — Map (db m35588) HM
On Main Street at Town Hall Drive, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Branford
To Her Brave Sons
Who Fought In The War
Of The Rebellion
1861 – 1865
One Country – One Flag
GAR
1885
[ battle names inscribed on the column ]
Antietam • Fredericksburg • Shiloh • Gettysburg • Vicksburg . . . — — Map (db m35645) HM
On Main Street near Town Hall Drive, on the right when traveling north.
In Memory of Those Who Served
Those Who Were Disabled In Service
And Those Who Gave Their Lives In
World War II and the Korean Conflict
Vietnam — — Map (db m35587) WM