Historical Markers and War Memorials in Deerfield, Massachusetts
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Some of the world's best soil is right here in the Connecticut River Valley.
The valley's soil made it a location of choice for the Pocumtuck and other Indian peoples who cultivated native maize (corn), beans, squash and tobacco. English . . . — — Map (db m230713) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built 1734.
Home of museum founders Henry and Helen Geier Flynt, 1945-1975.
Restored interiors reflect the Flynts' lifestyle during their heyday of collecting American . . . — — Map (db m230695) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built 1734, with alterations.
Home of Deerfield's second minister.
Furnishings of the Connecticut River Valley elite. — — Map (db m230672) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built 1795.
Site of Deerfield Academy's first trustees meeting in 1797.
Operated as a tavern until 1805 at the crossroads of travel between Boston, MA; Albany, NY; Hartford, . . . — — Map (db m230746) HM
Benjamin Barrett
-Carpenter -
Born 1653 – Died 1690
Soldier with Captain Turner 1676
Settled on Plum Tree Plain Deerfield 1684
Owner of this home Lot No. 27 when he died 1690
This memorial is erected by his lineal . . . — — Map (db m141120) HM
Cato, c. 1737 - 1825, son of Jin Cole, enslaved as a child in this house.
Jin Cole, c. 1723 - 1808, captured in Africa at age 12, enslaved in this house.
Titus, 1751, enslaved in this house. — — Map (db m230670) HM
This Three Sisters Garden is a good example of the ecological benefits of growing certain plants together. As the corn grows, the beans will naturally find the support they need by climbing up the tall stalks. At the same time, the roots of the bean . . . — — Map (db m230693) HM
This interpretive garden is dedicated to the loving memory of Margaret Quinn Orloske, a fellow gardener and hearth cook, and to the eternal spirit of the thousands who died with her on September 11, 2001. The Margaret Quinn Orloske Endowment Fund . . . — — Map (db m230743) WM
Where Mohawk struck Pocumtuck pride,
Sentinel stalks of Indian corn
Still guard the Meadow of our world:
The sad silence of grass-grown graves
A frontier home on the falling ridge
And a cold gray February dawn.
All of America . . . — — Map (db m141333) HM
In Grateful Appreciation
of the Patriotism and self Sacrifice
of Her Lamented Sons and Soldiers,
Who for Their Country and for Freedom
Laid Down Their Lives in the War
of the Great Rebellion,
Deerfield
Erects This Monument
A.D. . . . — — Map (db m141862) WM
Feb 29, 1703-4
The unfortified house of Benoni Stebbins
standing on this lot was held by
7 men besides women and children
for three hours
against the assault of 200 soldiers
and the wiles of 140 Indians.
under a French . . . — — Map (db m141156) HM
The indoor comforts of home were provided by outdoor work on the farm.
Bordered by house, garden, outbuildings, and fields, the farm yard has always been a busy crossroads of activity now and in the past. Farm families of the 1800s managed . . . — — Map (db m230696) HM
During the last ice age, a glacier one-mile thick towered over the spot where you are standing. When it began to melt about 16,000 years ago, the water backed up in the valley creating a giant lake 220 miles long. Early geologists named it Lake . . . — — Map (db m230715) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built about 1760, with alterations.
Restored in 1892 by preservationist Charlotte Alice Baker.
Furnishings reflect her interest in the Colonial Revival and the Arts and . . . — — Map (db m230744) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built in 1824, by Asa Stebbins for his son, Asa, Jr.
Gilded fanlight details over the front door became popular in the early 19th century.
Connecticut Valley Furniture . . . — — Map (db m230686) HM
Godfrey Nims
Ancestor of All of the
Name of Nims
Settled in Deerfield 1674
Fought under Capt. Turner 1676
Bought this Home Lot 1692
His House Burned, His Wife
and Seven Children Captured
or Killed by Indians in 1704.
This New . . . — — Map (db m141115) HM
Welcome. This living exhibit interprets a Native American agricultural method of companion-planting three crops called the Three Sisters: corn (maize), beans, and squash. Growing these three plants together is very labor efficient, . . . — — Map (db m230691) HM
The Village of Deerfield is an old settlement on an ancient site.
The Mile-long street before you was originally a Native path. Ancestors of the Pocumtuck, an Algonquin people, lived here in their homeland for at least 8,000 years, . . . — — Map (db m141346) HM
Home of Joseph Stebbins
Born 1749 Died 1816
Lover of Liberty
And
Servant of His Country
__________
Lieutenant of Minute Men
Who Marched on the Lexington Alarm
Captain at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Fought at Stillwater . . . — — Map (db m141334) WM
John Sheldon 1658 - 1733
Hannah Stebbins 1664 – 1704
Married Nov 5 1679
The Home Of John Sheldon Was On This Lot
Here Feb 29 1704 His Wife And One Child Were Killed
And Four Children Were Taken Captive
By The . . . — — Map (db m143814) HM
This Marks the Home Lot where
John Stebbins
Grandson of Rowland the Emigrant
A Permanent Settler of 1652
Lived and Died
__________
A Soldier under Capt. Lothrop
The Only Man Known who Escaped Unhurt
At the Bloody Brooke . . . — — Map (db m141336) HM WM
Lucy Terry Prince, c. 1729 - 1821. Captured in Africa as a child. Enslaved in this house. Died a free woman in Vermont.
Caesar, baptized 1734. Enslaved in this house. — — Map (db m230747) HM
Memorial Hall
Built in 1798
Occupied as Deerfield Academy
Until 1878
Dedicated in 1880 to the
Preservation of the Record of
Early Days in New England
by the
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
This Tablet is Erected on . . . — — Map (db m141125) HM
The interplay of people and nature has shaped this place for generations.
The living things that populate our landscape are part of a continual process of change. Long ago, the Pocumtuck cleared forests of underbrush and set controlled . . . — — Map (db m230720) HM
The foods we eat directly affect our health. Eating squash, corn, and beans together offers greater health benefits than eating them separately. Consuming corn and beans during a meal provides a high-quality source of protein equal to that found in . . . — — Map (db m230694) HM
Indian land called Pocomtuck, settled by men from Dedham in 1671. Attacked by Indians, burnt, and abandoned in 1675. Reoccupied and attacked in 1704 by French and Indians, who took 47 lives, and carried off 112 captives to Canada, of whom 60 were . . . — — Map (db m48012) HM
Indian land called Pocomtuck, settled by men from Dedham in 1671. Attacked by Indians, burnt, and abandoned in 1675. Reoccupied and attacked in 1704 by French and Indians, who took 47 lives, and carried off 112 captives to Canada, of whom 60 were . . . — — Map (db m48773) HM
Old Deerfield Village
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 . . . — — Map (db m141339) HM
Site of the
Old Indian House
Built by
Ensign John Sheldon 1698
It stood for 144 years
testifying to the tragedy of
Feb. 29, 1703
its stout door
which kept at bay
the French and Indians
13 now safe in Memorial Hall . . . — — Map (db m141341) HM WM
The Connecticut River Valley is a distinctive geographic region in the Northeast.
This beautiful landscape and its irreplaceable balance of farms, fields, hills and forests conveys a potent sense of place that points to a sustainable . . . — — Map (db m230718) HM
Erected In Memory of
Quinton Stockwell
and his wife
Abigail Bullard Stockwell
It was in their house, which stood on
this spot, that the Stockwells boarded
the Reverend Samuel Mather during the
earliest days of . . . — — Map (db m147359) HM
Original house built by Ensign John Sheldon on 1698. Withstood attack by French and Indians on the night of Feb. 29, 1704. Torn down in 1848. — — Map (db m230727) HM
In Memory Of
Rev. Samuel Mather. M.A.
Pioneer Minister of Deerfield 1673 – 75.
Who lived in a house on this site.
Born at Dorchester, 1650. Graduated Harvard College 1671.
Married Hannah, Daughter of Governor Robert Treat
Of . . . — — Map (db m141956) HM
The Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers shape the geography, economy and culture of this region.
Through the trees to the west you can see a dramatic curve, or oxbow, of the Deerfield River. From its headwaters in Vermont's southern Green . . . — — Map (db m230722) HM
Built by John Sheldon 1739. Handed down from sire to son to the present owner.
The longest holding of state in Franklin County. — — Map (db m230688) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built 1755.
Georgian period architecture.
Furnishings reflect the life of a farming family, 1780 - 1810. — — Map (db m230690) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built 1799.
Deerfield's first brick house.
Federal period architecture and furnishings, 1790-1830. — — Map (db m230731) HM
2nd Lt Thomas W. Johnson, U.S. Army Air Corp, ★ KIA ~ April 29, 1944 ~ Germany ~ WWII ★
LT Allan J. Johnson, U.S. Army Air Corp, ★ KIA ~ April 24, 1944 ~ Germany ~ WWII ★ — — Map (db m230668) WM
Historic Deerfield is a museum of early New England history and the arts located within one of New England's most historic villages. Visitors come here to tour our museum collections and the carefully preserved old houses in which they are . . . — — Map (db m230732) HM
Museum admission tickets available at the Visitor Center.
Built 1747.
First painted blue in 1802.
Interior furnishings illustrate change through time, 1725 to 1850. — — Map (db m230749) HM
