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Colonial Era Topic
By Michael Herrick, February 1, 2012
Adrićn Block Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
| Near Main Street at Central Row, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Adriaen Block
A short distance from
where you are standing,
in 1614
Adriaen Block, captain of the ship Restless
sails up a river from the Atlantic Ocean
which native peoples of the region have named
"Quinnehtukqut", meaning the Great . . . — — Map (db m53151) HM |
| On Main Street at Arch Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | In Memory of the Courageous
Adventurers
Who Inspired and Directed by
Thomas Hooker Journeyed Through the
Wilderness from Newtown Cambridge)
In the Massachusetts Bay to
Suckiaug (Hartford) – October 1635
Mathew Allyn • John Barnard . . . — — Map (db m52432) HM |
| Near Main Street at Central Row, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Captain Joseph Wadsworth
Where You Are Standing
On October 31, 1687
Came Sir Edmund Andros to the
meeting house built on this site,
sent by the British Crown
to revoke Connecticut's Charter
and establish the Dominion of New England. . . . — — Map (db m53150) HM |
| On Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Center
Church
Organized 1632
Founded Hartford in 1636
First Minister
Thomas Hooker
Served
1633-1647 — — Map (db m52439) HM |
| On Charter Oak Avenue at Charter Oak Place, on the right when traveling east on Charter Oak Avenue. |
| | Near This Spot
Stood The
Charter Oak
Memorable in the History
of the
Colony of Connecticut
As The Hiding Place Of The
Charter
October 31, 1687
The Tree Fell
August 21, 1856
[ back ]
1905
This Monument
Erected by . . . — — Map (db m52339) HM |
| On Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | George Washington
was entertained by
Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth in his home on this site on June 30, 1775 when on his way to Cambridge to assume command of the Army.
On September 21, 22, 23, 1780 with Lafayette, General Knox and Governor . . . — — Map (db m151930) HM |
| Near Main Street at Gold Street when traveling south. |
| | [ south side ]
George Wyllys
Born 1590 in Fenny Compton Co Warwick England
Came to Hartford 1638
Deputy Governor of Connecticut 1641
And Governor 1642. Died March 9, 1645
Bridget Young his wife died at Fenny Compton
March 1629 . . . — — Map (db m43771) HM |
| On Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| |
Hartford was named in 1637 after the English town of Hertford. The Indian name was Suckiaug. The first colonial settlement, called House of Good Hope, was made by the Dutch in 1633. The Reverend Thomas Hooker arrived overland from Newtown . . . — — Map (db m43708) HM |
| Near Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In Memory of the First
Settlers of Hartford
Jeremy Adams • Matthew Allyn • Francis Andrews • William Andrews • John Arnold • Andrew Bacon • John Barnard • Thomas Barnes • Robert Bartlett • John Baysey • Thomas Beale • Nathaniel Bearding • Mary . . . — — Map (db m83119) HM |
| Near Main Street near Gold Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | John Haynes
1594 – 1654
Of Copford Hall. Essex England. Third Governor of Massachusetts. A founder of this commonwealth & its first Governor. A lover of religious liberty. A man trusted and honored.
Near this place he was buried & by . . . — — Map (db m44068) HM |
| On Farmington Ave. 1 mile from Asylum Ave., on the right when traveling east. |
| | On this site, from 1869 until 1963, stood the Hartford Public High School, the second oldest secondary school in the United States. Founded in 1638 as a Latin Grammar School. It became, in 1847, the Hartford Public English and Classical High School. . . . — — Map (db m28374) HM |
| On Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Rev. Samuel Stone 1602 – 1663
First Church Teacher and 2nd Pastor
Co-Founded Hartford with Thomas Hooker
Born in Hertford England — — Map (db m43742) HM |
| On Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Sacred to the Memory of
the Three Hundred or more
African Americans
Free People, Slaves, and
five Black Governors
Who rest in Unmarked
Graves in Hartford's
Ancient Burying Ground
1640 - 1810
[ back ]
School children in . . . — — Map (db m43803) HM |
| On Elm Street at Clinton Street, on the left when traveling east on Elm Street. |
| | Scion of the Charter Oak
Planted 19 October 1871 by
First Company Governor's Foot Guard
White Oak (Quercus atba L)
In the earliest days the great oak served both as a council tree and agricultural guide for Native Americans. The annual spring . . . — — Map (db m64924) HM |
| Near Central Row near Main Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1636
The Church in Newtown, Massachusetts
Thomas Hooker, Minister
was transplanted to this locality, called
Meeting House Yard,
Old State House Square
City Hall Square.
Near this site on May 31, 1638.
Thomas Hooker preached his . . . — — Map (db m52695) HM |
| On Main Street just north of Gold Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| |
Near this site
The Hartford Courant
This nation's oldest newspaper
of continuous publication
was established
October 29, 1764 — — Map (db m151934) HM |
| Near Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In June 1636, about one hundred members of Thomas Hooker's congregation arrived safely in this vicinity. With one hundred and sixty cattle, they had followed old Indian trails from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the Connecticut River to build a . . . — — Map (db m52557) HM |
| On Tower Square just west of Prospect Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Jeremiah Wadsworth was Commissary-General in the Continental Army. His house which stood at the present site of the Wadsworth Atheneum was the meeting place for many leaders of the American Revolution, among them Washington, Lafayette, and . . . — — Map (db m151929) HM |
| Near Main Street at Gold Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Thomas Hooker
1586 – 1647
A leader of the founders in this commonwealth. A preacher of persuasive power. A statesman who based all civil authority on the free consent of the people.
This tablet is placed near the site of his burial by The . . . — — Map (db m44070) HM |
| On Main Street at Central Row, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | Thomas Hooker
1586 – 1647
Founder of Hartford
Pastor – Statesman
[ east side ]
Leading his people through
the wilderness, he founded
Hartford in June 1636.
On this site he preached
the sermon which inspired
the . . . — — Map (db m52917) HM |
| On South Road (Connecticut Route 179) 0.1 miles south of Walnut Hill Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | [ front ]
Proprietors from Hartford, those whose names appeared on the tax lists of 1720, were originally given the western land grants called Hart(ford)land, now known as the Town of Hartland. The first permanent settler in this area was . . . — — Map (db m29853) HM |
| On Center Street (U.S. 6) at Main Street (Route 83), on the left when traveling east on Center Street. |
| | Originally the Five Miles bought by Hartford from the Indians, 1682. First settlement, about 1673. Chartered by General Assembly as Orford Parish, 1772. Incorporated as town of Manchester, 1823.
An early center of small industry, its mills . . . — — Map (db m151124) HM |
| On North Main Street at Jones Hollow Road, on the right when traveling west on North Main Street. |
| | Marlborough
The colonial General Assembly in 1747 designated this area an ecclesiastical society and named it Marlborough. In 1803 the Connecticut General Assembly incorporated Marlborough as a "distinct town” deriving its lands from . . . — — Map (db m98957) HM |
| On Main Street at Cedar Street, on the left when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Newington, Connecticut
1636 – Newington valley used by Wethersfield settlers as a source for pipe staves, building materials and pasture lands. Pipestave Swamp, Cow Plain and West Farms were early names for the area.
1671 – Land . . . — — Map (db m46065) HM |
| On Old Main Street at Riverview Road, on the right when traveling south on Old Main Street. |
| | Rocky Hill
This area was first settled in 1650 as part of Wethersfield and became known as Rocky Hill because of the ridge that rises in the northeast. In 1722 the village became Stepney Parish of Wethersfield but attained separate town status as . . . — — Map (db m46181) HM |
| On Ferry Lane at Goodrich Road, on the left when traveling north on Ferry Lane. |
| | Site of the first home in Simsbury
Captain Aaron Cook
circa 1660
Site of the Pent Road Ferry
circa 1668
The Traine Band passed here — — Map (db m102019) HM |
| Near Hopmeadow Street (Connecticut Route 10) at Station Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Site Of
The First Meeting House
In Simsbury
1683 – 1739
Built at a cost of Ł 33 according to an indenture between Thomas Barber and The Town
This site was chosen by lot at a solemn mmting of May 24th 1683 thus ending a controversy . . . — — Map (db m88060) HM |
| On Terry's Plain Road at Wintonbury Road, on the left when traveling south on Terry's Plain Road. |
| | Site of the first school house in Simsbury
December 17, 1701
“One place at the Plain...
and the first school to begin there” — — Map (db m102004) HM |
| On Terry's Plain Road at Goodrich Road, on the right when traveling north on Terry's Plain Road. |
| | Established by vote of the Traine Band
May 28, 1685
“One day on one syd the river and
an another on the other syd ye river”
John Terry, Ensign
Jeremiah Gillit, Sargent — — Map (db m102006) HM |
| On Hopmeadow Street (Connecticut Route 10) at Pent Road, on the left when traveling north on Hopmeadow Street. |
| | Simsbury
(Massaco Plantation)
Manufactory for tar, pitch, and turpentine established here in 1642. Destroyed by fire of Indian origin in 1647. Local tribal lands were deeded as reparation. Named Simsbury in 1670 and granted town privileges by the . . . — — Map (db m87927) HM |
| Near Old Bridge Road 0.1 miles south of Drake Hill Road. |
| | A toll bridge was built here
in 1734 by order of
the General Assembly
it was the first
highway bridge across
the Farmington River — — Map (db m102001) HM |
| On Main Street at Ferry Lane, on the left when traveling north on Main Street. |
| |
The first ferry crossing of the Connecticut River was tended by John Bissell in 1641. This road leads to the landing place where succeeding generations of Bissells, and finally the Town, kept this Ferry in continuous operation until 1917. Main . . . — — Map (db m114003) HM |
| On Ferry Lane 0.7 miles west of Main Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Bissell Ferry
1641 - 1917
This quiet spot with its big old house was once the scene of great activity. In 1614 Adrian Block, a Dutch explorer, found Indians living between the Scantic and the Podunk rivers.
At the request of Sachem . . . — — Map (db m114057) HM |
| On Main Street 0.2 miles south of Oxbow Lane, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Jonathan Edwards
1703 – 1758
Born at East Windsor
Died at Princeton New Jersey
Pastor and Theologian
Tutor at Yale College
President College of New Jersey
and one of the leaders
in the Great Awakening
the first spontaneous . . . — — Map (db m114021) HM |
| On Main Street 0.2 miles south of Oxbow Lane, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Old Burying
Ground
God’s Acre
1708
Resting Place
Of First Settlers
East of the River
And Their Pastor
Timothy
Edwards
Bicentennial 1776-1976 — — Map (db m114020) HM |
| On Main Street at Sullivan Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | Post Office & Store
From this building dry goods and groceries were offered to the public for over 200 years. The Store, operated in 1727 by Nathan Day, was discontinued in 1962. One of the oldest, this Post Office, the only one known to be in an . . . — — Map (db m114006) HM |
| On Main Street at Sullivan Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | South Windsor
In 1845 the Town of South Windsor was incorporated, having separated from East Windsor which had been divided from Windsor in 1768. This was once the territory of the Podunk Indians. Land was purchased from them in 1636 by the . . . — — Map (db m114005) HM |
| On Main Street (Connecticut Route 10) at Academy Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | [ front ]
Southington
To the fertile valley south of Farmington came Samuel Woodruff in 1698 to hunt and fish. Shortly thereafter Woodruff established a homesite, and with his settlement came other families from surrounding areas. The . . . — — Map (db m33757) HM |
| On North Main Street (Connecticut Route 75) at Mountain Road (Connecticut Route 168), on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. |
| | Suffield
In 1670 through a grant to John Pynchon, Suffield, formerly Southfield, originated
as a township of Massachusetts because of a surveying error. Mindwell Old, the first
child, was born in 1674, the year the town was incorporated. The town . . . — — Map (db m99675) HM |
| | Just to the south, on route 10, is Abigail’s, originally called the Pettibone Tavern.
Jonathan Pettibone built the first Pettibone Tavern about 1780 and, after it was largely destroyed by fire, rebuilt it in 1801. The large chimney stack is . . . — — Map (db m141164) HM |
| On South Main Street at Farmington Avenue, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street. |
| | Goodman Green
In 1747 this oblong of land was given by Timothy Goodman to the West Hartford Parish of the Congregational Church for use as a parade ground of the local militia company. Still owned by the parish, it is maintained by the town. For . . . — — Map (db m53156) HM |
| On Farmington Avenue at North Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Farmington Avenue. |
| | Meeting House Corner
This park is the site of the first three meeting houses of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, organized in 1713. The parish of the west Division (West Hartford), the fourth in Hartford, was established in 1711. The . . . — — Map (db m53158) HM |
| On North Main Street at Loomis Drive, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. |
| | Old Center Cemetery
The land for this cemetery, the oldest official burying ground in West Hartford was acquired in 1719 by the Town of Hartford for the benefit of its West Division Parish (West Hartford). It remained the principal place of burial . . . — — Map (db m97554) HM |
| On North Main Street at Keeney Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. |
| | Old North Cemetery
This graveyard was established in 1790, when Thomas Merrell of the West Division Parish (West Hartford) sold three quarters of an acre to the Town of Hartford. From time to time there were additions, the last in 1852. West . . . — — Map (db m97552) HM |
| On North Main Street at Farmington Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. |
| | West Hartford
In 1672-1677 Hartford created the West Division by sub-dividing a tract bounded by Quaker Lane, Mountain Road, and the towns of Bloomfield and Newington. Later this was enlarged by lands from Hartford and Farmington. Our first . . . — — Map (db m53370) HM |
| On Broad Street near Middletown Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Nathaniel Foote
The Settler
Born In England 1593
Died In Wethersfield 1644
Erected By The
Foote Family Association
Of America
On The Original Home Lot
September 7, 1908 — — Map (db m46180) HM |
| On Wells Road at Spring Street, on the right when traveling east on Wells Road. |
| | Wethersfield
First Settled 1634
As a Trading Post
By John Oldham
And Associates — — Map (db m46099) HM |
| On Broad Street at Robbinswood Drive, on the right when traveling south on Broad Street. |
| | To The Memory
Of The Adventurers From
Watertown, Massachusetts
Who Settled Wethersfield
In 1634
John Oldham • Robert Seeley • John Strickland • Andrew Ward • John Clarke • Leonard Chester • Nathaniel Foote • Abraham Finch • Robert Rose • . . . — — Map (db m46179) HM |
| On Palisado Ave at Bissell's Ferry Road on Palisado Ave. |
| | This marks the road to Bissell’s Ferry, established by the General Court of Connecticut in 1641. Operated by the Bissell family for nearly one hundred years. Later leased to various townsmen and continuously operated until 1917. The original . . . — — Map (db m65727) HM |
| On Palisado Avenue (Connecticut Route 159) at North Meadow Road, on the right when traveling north on Palisado Avenue. |
| | To the Founders of Windsor
and
The First Congrgational Church
In Connecticut
Which Came to America
In the Mary and John With
Its Pastor – John Warham
May 30, 1635
Settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts
And Migrated To Windsor . . . — — Map (db m99589) HM |
| On Palisado Avenue (Connecticut Route 159) at North Meadow Road, on the right when traveling north on Palisado Avenue. |
| | Major John Mason
Born 1600 in England
Immigrated to New England in 1630
A Founder of Windsor, Old Saybrook and Norwich
Magistrate and Chief Military Officer of the Connecticut Colony
Deputy Governor and Acting Governor
A Patentee of the . . . — — Map (db m99588) HM |
| On Connecticut Route 159. |
| | On the brow of the hill overlooking the meadow
stood the Old Stone Fort or Stoughton House. It was
in two portions, one stone, probably the older, and one wood. At the north end was a door of heavy oak
timbers studded with iron spikes, which bore . . . — — Map (db m28364) HM |
| On Connecticut Route 159, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Original homestead of John and Thomas Hoskins,
father and son, who arrived on the Mary and John
from England in 1630. They were members of the
Dorcester party that settled Windsor north of the
Rivulet in 1632. Goodman John Hoskins served as
a . . . — — Map (db m28369) HM |
| On Pleasant Valley Road (Route 318) at Beach Rock Road, on the right when traveling north on Pleasant Valley Road. |
| | Barkhamsted
Named for Barkhamsted in Hertfordshire, England, this area was part of the Western Lands granted by the proprietors of Windsor to 108 persons of that town in 1732. The first highway through the town was the New Country Road, better . . . — — Map (db m29849) HM |
| On Main Street North (Connecticut Route 61) at West Road (Connecticut Route 132), on the left when traveling north on Main Street North. |
| | In This House
Rev. Joseph Bellamy
Held the Earliest
Theological School
1738 – 1789 — — Map (db m48430) HM |
| On Main Street South (Connecticut Route 61) 0.1 miles north of Sunny Ridge Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Marker Front:
The spring session of the 1703 General Assembly granted to the town of Woodbury the right to enlarge its bounds. Negotiations with the Indian inhabitants were successfully concluded and in 1710 a deed of sale, signed by . . . — — Map (db m26488) HM |
| On West Road at Main Street South (Connecticut Route 61), on the left when traveling west on West Road. |
| | Erected
July 4, 1890
Here Stood The
Meetinghouse Where
Dr. Bellamy
Ministered
1767 – 1790 — — Map (db m26509) HM |
| On Main Street South (Connecticut Route 133) at Center Street on Main Street South. |
| | In 1722 Samuel Clark, an original proprietor of New Milford, had a portion of his share of land surveyed in the southerly part of that town known as Shepaug Neck. Although this later became known as Bridgewater, it was not incorporated as a separate . . . — — Map (db m20259) HM |
| On Colebrook Road at Smith Hill Road, on the right when traveling north on Colebrook Road. |
| | [ front ]
Colebrook
The last town in colonial Connecticut to be settled, Colebrook was named after a town in Devonshire, England. The reason is now unknown, The year 1765 saw Benjamin Horton, leader of a trickle of settlers, arrive amid . . . — — Map (db m30003) HM |
| On Colebrook Road (Route 183) at Stillman Hill Road (Connecticut Route 182), on the right when traveling south on Colebrook Road. |
| | Hale Barn and Trail
In front of you stands the Hale Barn, a vanishing example of 18th century barns that once graced much of the Connecticut countryside. Today, it is owned by the Colebrook Land Conservancy and is protected along with the 38 acres . . . — — Map (db m30240) HM |
| On Pine Street at Bolton Hill Road, on the left when traveling south on Pine Street. |
| | Cornwall
This area was once part of the Western Lands ordered surveyed by the Legislature in 1731. Yale Lands were surveyed and three hundred acres were set aside for income for Yale College in 1732. At an auction in Fairfield in 1738 the town was . . . — — Map (db m41824) HM |
| Near Lower Road at Furnace Hill Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Birth of an Industry
The Iron Works of The 1700's
Iron forges came early to the Blackberry River, with the first Catalan forge built in 1739 downstream from this point. About this time young Samuel Forbes (1729-1827) arrived on the scene, first . . . — — Map (db m41979) HM |
| On Main Street at Railroad Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Canaan
The Town of Canaan, established in 1738, is known as Falls Village because of the Great Falls of the Housatonic where a power company dam was built in 1912-13. Early industrial prominence resulted from a saw mill and grist mill built at the . . . — — Map (db m41850) HM |
| On North Street (Connecticut Route 63) at Elementary Drive, on the right when traveling north on North Street. |
| | [ front ]
Goshen
The town was settled in 1738 and incorporated in 1739. Many of the early residents came from Wallingford and Farmington. The Congregational Church was founded in 1740. An Episcopal society existed prior to 1776. During . . . — — Map (db m30229) HM |
| On Litchfield Road (Connecticut Route 118) at South Road, on the right when traveling east on Litchfield Road. |
| | Harwinton
The town was settled in 1731, named in 1732 from Harry(tford) and Win(dsor), and became incorporated in October, 1737. Located on the Hartford-Litchfield Turnpike, Harwinton was primarily an agricultural community with many part-time . . . — — Map (db m29788) HM |
| On Bentley Drive 0.5 miles south of Litchfield Road (Connecticut Route 118), on the left when traveling south. |
| | Liberty Tree Memorial
This American Liberty Elm was named after "The Liberty Tree: Our Country's first Symbol of Freedom." On the morning of August 14, 1765, the people of Boston awakened to discover two effigies suspended from an elm tree in . . . — — Map (db m29765) HM |
| On South Street (Connecticut Route 63) 0.2 miles south of East Street (Connecticut Route 202), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Earliest American
Law School
1775 – 1833
Tapping Reeve
And James Gould — — Map (db m28522) HM |
| On West Street (Connecticut Route 202) at Meadow Street (Connecticut Route 63), on the right when traveling west on West Street. |
| | [ front ]
Litchfield
The "Greenwoods" or "Western Lands" of Connecticut were explored in 1715 by John Marsh of Hartford, purchased for fifteen pounds from the Potatuck Indians, who called the area "Bantam", and first settled in 1720. In . . . — — Map (db m28521) HM |
| On West Street (U.S. 202) at Constitution Way, on the right when traveling east on West Street. |
| | Litchfield
Settled 1720
Oliver Wolcott Home
Reeve’s Law School
On South St. — — Map (db m58643) HM |
| On North Street (Connecticut Route 63) at Westwood Lane, on the left when traveling north on North Street. |
| | Site of
Pierce Academy
In 1792 Sarah Pierce
Opened First Academy
For Girls in America — — Map (db m29128) HM |
| On South Street (Connecticut Route 61) at East Street (Connecticut Route 109), on the right when traveling south on South Street. |
| | [ front ]
Morris
Originally called South Farms, this area was settled in the 1720's as part of the frontier town of Litchfield. The land was surveyed by Captaiin John Marsh in 1715 and was purchased for fifteen pounds from the bantam . . . — — Map (db m28399) HM |
| Near Hoppen Road 0.1 miles east of Route 219. |
| | On this plot was raised in 1739, the first
meeting house of New Hartford and on these
very foundations the second church was built
in 1829. After 1854 it was no longer used as a place
of worship and was finally removed in 1929.
For . . . — — Map (db m102033) HM |
| On Main Street at Church Street, on the left when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Marker on New Milford Town Hall building:On the site of this building
once lived
Roger Sherman
Born 1721 – Died 1793
One of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence
*************
Placed by the Roger Sherman Chapter . . . — — Map (db m20922) HM |
| On Aspetuck Avenue at Elm Street, on the right when traveling north on Aspetuck Avenue. |
| | Front
This beautiful valley known to the Potatuck Indians as Weantinock, was purchased from them in 1703 by a company of individuals chiefly from Milford, Connecticut, hence the name New Milford. Its earliest white inhabitant, Zachariah . . . — — Map (db m22750) HM |
| On Litchfield Road (Connecticut Route 272) at Greenwoods Road East (U.S. 44), on the right when traveling north on Litchfield Road. |
| | [ front ]
Norfolk
In the heart of the Green Woods on what was later the Hartford-Albany Turnpike, Norfolk was settled in 1744 by Cornelius Brown of Windsor. The town was incorporated in 1758 with forty-four voters at the first town . . . — — Map (db m29687) HM |
| On Main Street (U.S. 44), on the right when traveling south. |
| | This American Liberty Elm was named after “The Liberty Tree: Our Country’s first Symbol of Freedom.” On the morning of August 14, 1765, the people of Boston awakened to discover two
effigies suspended from an elm tree in protest of the . . . — — Map (db m93049) HM |
| On Main Street (U.S. 44) at Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | In 1732 the Connecticut General Assembly gave Hartford and Windsor permission to establish seven towns in the colony’s Western Lands. New Hartford was given to 182 Hartford taxpayers who became the new town’s proprietors. They organized and hired . . . — — Map (db m92607) HM |
| On Park Street at Main Street (U.S. 6), on the right when traveling south on Park Street. |
| | First Congregational Church of Plymouth
The First Congregational Church had its beginnings as the Ecclesiastical Society of Northbury, established in 1739. The first meetinghouse was completed during the 1760s. The second meetinghouse was . . . — — Map (db m90830) HM |
| On Main Street (U.S. 6) at Todd Hollow Road, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Plymouth
First settled in the 1720's on land acquired from the Tunxis Indians, the Town of Plymouth, originally named Northbury, was incorporated in 1795. It includes the communities of Plymouth, Terryville, Pequabuck (formerly Susanville), East . . . — — Map (db m28095) HM |
| On Park Street at Main Street (U.S. 6), on the right when traveling south on Park Street. |
| | Plymouth Burying Ground
1747
National Register of Historic Places
Here lie buried Veterans of the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.
The gravestones are in rows running north and south. The bodies were placed . . . — — Map (db m90734) HM |
| On North Street (Connecticut Route 67) 0.1 miles north of Chalybes Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | 1713 - First structure by white settlers built near Shepaug River.
1732 - 33 – First meeting house erected. Old Roxbury Road.
1743 – Roxbury parish established by Connecticut General Assembly.
Birthplace of three cousins of . . . — — Map (db m17761) HM |
| On Main Street at Academy Street, on the left when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Salisbury
The Town of Salisbury was incorporated in 1741. The Congregational meeting house, built 1749-1751, in the exact center of the town, survives as the core of the present Town Hall. The original agrcultural settlement was rich in iron ore . . . — — Map (db m42047) HM |
| On Main Street (Connecticut Route 41) at Amenia Road (Connecticut Route 343), on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Dedicated
In Grateful Tribute To
The Men And Women Of
Sharon
Who Have Served Our Country
Since The Founding Of The Town
In 1739 — — Map (db m42126) HM WM |
| On Main Street at West Main Street, on the left when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Sharon
The first grant of land in Sharon, later known as the "Jackson Patent" near Amenia Union, was surveyed in 1732, at which time the boundaries of the Town were established. The patent was granted in 1734 by the General Assembly of the Colony . . . — — Map (db m42122) HM |
| On East Plymouth Road at Marsh Road, on the right when traveling north on East Plymouth Road. |
| | The History of the East Plymouth and St. Matthew's Cemetery
East Plymouth (also known as East Church), located at the boundary convergence of Bristol, Plymouth and Harwinton, became a distinct community largely because of events occurring in . . . — — Map (db m90893) HM |
| On South Main Street at Agney Avenue, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street. |
| | The Old Terryville Cemetery features the graves of over 120 of Terryville's earliest residents. The earliest grave is believed to be Francis A. Lewis, who died May 5th, 1832 at the age of one year and five months. The families interred here . . . — — Map (db m90665) HM |
| On Clay Street at Main Street, on the right when traveling south on Clay Street. |
| | [ front ]
Thomaston
Originally part of the Farmington Proprietors' purchase in 1684 of Mattatuck Plantation, the Thomaston area achieved independence in 1739, being set off as the Northbury Parish. In 1780 Northbury and Westbury united . . . — — Map (db m28139) HM |
| On Main Street north of City Hall Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Named in 1732 for Torrington in Devonshire, England, this was one of the townships of the Western Lands allotted to Windsor. Since the early settlers were taxpayers in that town, their shares in the division of land depended upon the amount of taxes . . . — — Map (db m56057) HM |
| On Sackett Hill Road 0.1 miles south of Kent Road (Connecticut Route 341), on the right when traveling south. |
| | [ front ]
Warren
This area was settled in 1737 as part of the Town of Kent. A separate ecclesiastical society called the Society of East Greenwich, established in 1750, led to the founding of a church in 1756 and a separate town in . . . — — Map (db m29171) HM |
| On Bryan Hall Plaza at Calhoun Street (Connecticut Route 109), on the right when traveling west on Bryan Hall Plaza. |
| | Side A
This township includes the villages of Woodville, New Preston, Marbledale, Washington, and Washington Depot. The eastern section, first settled by Joseph Hurlbut in 1734, was known as the Parish of Judea and belonged to Woodbury. The . . . — — Map (db m17437) HM |
| Near Main Street (Connecticut Route 63) at French Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | [ west side ]
To commemorate the suffering and torture inflicted by the Indians upon Jonathan Scott and Hannah Hawkes, his wife, the first permanent settlers of Watertown, this memorial is erected by the Waterbury and Watertown Chapters . . . — — Map (db m31165) HM |
| Near Main Street (Connecticut Route 63) at French Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Sacred to the Memory
of the Rev'd John Trumbull
senior Pastor of the Church of Christ
in Westbury
And one of the Fellows of the Corporation
of Yale College;
Who died December 8th AD 1787
In the Seventy third Year of his Age,
And . . . — — Map (db m31162) HM |
| On DeForest Street (U.S. 6) 0.1 miles south of Veterans Hill, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon . . . — — Map (db m18931) HM |
| On Main Street (Connecticut Route 183) at Park Place, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | [ front ]
Winchester
In 1686 the General Court of the Connecticut Colony granted to the town of Hartford and Windsor "… lands on the north of Woodbury … and on the west of … Simsbury … to make a plantation or villages theron." Later . . . — — Map (db m29904) HM |
| On Main Street (U.S. 6) 0.2 miles north of Sherman Hill Road (Connecticut Route 64), on the right when traveling north. |
| | In past times the ancient paths in Connecticut were formed by large animals as they moved with the seasons and migrated to salt deposits. The Native Americans followed these same paths as they hunted these animals, traded with other tribes and also . . . — — Map (db m112637) HM |
| On Main Street (U.S. 6) at Hollow Road, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Ľ Mile West At The GLEBE HOUSE The Episcopal Clergy Chose Samuel Seabury First Bishop, 1783 — — Map (db m17639) HM |
| On Main Street South (U.S. 6) at Park Road, on the left when traveling north on Main Street South. |
| | In 1659 citizens of Stratford purchased from the Pegasset Indians the land, then called Pomperaug Plantation, that is now occupied by Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bethlehem and parts of Washington, Middlebury and Oxford. It was re-named Woodbury in . . . — — Map (db m17607) HM |
| On Main Street at Water Street (Connecticut Route 148), on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Chester
Chester is located on land known as Pattaconk or Pattyquounck in Indian deeds of the 1660's. Settled largely by families from Saybrook, it became the Fourth Ecclesiastical Society of the Saybrook Congregational Church in 1740 and was . . . — — Map (db m100313) HM |
| On East Main Street (U.S. 1) at Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street. |
| | Clinton
Settled in 1663 and then known as Homonoscitt Plantation, this shoreline and rural community soon thereafter was given the name Kenilworth and later Killingworth. In 1735 the First and Second Ecclesiastical Societies were established being . . . — — Map (db m100158) HM |
| On East Main Stre (U.S. 1) at Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east on East Main Stre. |
| | The Earliest Senior Classes Of
Yale College
Were Taught Near This Spot By
Rector Abraham Pierson
1701 to 1707
( inscribed around the top )
I Give These Books For Founding A College
( back )
In Memoriam
Abraham Pierson . . . — — Map (db m100160) HM |
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