Historical Markers and War Memorials in Branford, Connecticut
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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
On Eades Street at S Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Eades Street.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose. But young men think it is - and we were young.
George Adams · Elmer P. Anderson · James W. Barba · Bernard B. Brown · David O. Champagne · John W. Clark · William G. Colby · Arthur Morse Curtis · . . . — — Map (db m246101) WM
On Main Street at Town Hall Drive, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Pro Patria
1917-1918
( descriptive plaque )
Branford resident and Army veteran, J. Andre Smith designed the Cenotaph as a memorial to World War I servicemen who lost their lives in battle and rest in foreign soil. Its granite carving . . . — — Map (db m245810) WM
On Montoweese Street (Connecticut Route 146) at S Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Montoweese Street.
In the house of The Rev. Samuel Russel once standing near this spot was held in 1700 the meeting of ministers of the Colony of Connecticut when they gave books for the founding of the collegiate school which now bears the name of Yale University . . . — — Map (db m246098) HM
On Main Street near Cedar Street, on the right when traveling south.
This building, which was completed and dedicated in 1896, is the gift of Timothy B Blackstone, of
Chicago, Illinois, who died in that city May 26, 1900. Mr Blackstone was born in Branford in 1829, and he gave this building to the people of his . . . — — Map (db m246103) HM
