Historical Markers and War Memorials in Portland, Connecticut
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Portland is in Middlesex County
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The Holt Brothers and Redding Iron Works of California manufactured and shipped logging arches, throughout the United States in the late 1800's. Pulled by teams of oxen, arches were used in Portland to transfer cut brownstone from the quarries. . . . — — Map (db m216460) HM
Formerly known as East Middletown (1714-1767), later as Chatham (1767-1841), Portland was incorporated in 1841. Land had been granted on the east side of the Connecticut River in 1652; the first permanent settler, James Stancliff, a stone cutter, . . . — — Map (db m216455) HM
Just west of here are Portland's Brownstone Quarries, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998. The history of Portland is a remarkable reflection of the immigration patterns and technology associated with the American Industrial . . . — — Map (db m216456) HM
Portland: “A History Carved in Brownstone”
Early colonists in Connecticut gazed across to the eastern shore of the big bend in the Connecticut River at the outcroppings of reddish-brown sandstone. Little did they know that this stone . . . — — Map (db m140234) HM
Erected
May30, 1872
By the Town of Portland.
To the Memory of Her Brave Sons
Who GAVE Their Lives in Defence of The Union
During the War of The Rebellion
1861 – 65.
Samuel N. Gaston, Co. D. 20. C.V. Died June 21, 1863. . . . — — Map (db m140232) WM
