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Colonial Era Topic
By Michael Herrick, October 13, 2016
John Trumbull Birthplace
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
| On West Town Street at Exeter Road (Connecticut Route 207), on the left when traveling north on West Town Street. |
| | John Trumbull Birthplace
(Governor Jonathan Trumbull Home)
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 . . . — — Map (db m99040) HM |
| On West Town Street at Exeter Road (Connecticut Route 207), on the right when traveling north on West Town Street. |
| | Lebanon
Poquechaneeg, the Indian name for the Lebanon area, was ceded to Englishmen in six tracts; the first was to Major John Mason in 1665. Settlement was begun in 1695 with fifty-one proprietors who apportioned among themselves home lots around . . . — — Map (db m99011) HM |
| On Exeter Road (Connecticut Route 207) at West Town Street, on the right when traveling south on Exeter Road. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m99016) HM |
| On S. Burnham Hwy (Connecticut Route 169) at Newent Road (Route 138), on the right when traveling north on S. Burnham Hwy. |
| | Lisbon
This area originally was wholly within the Town of Norwich and consisted of a tract of land in the heart of the Mohegan Indian territory. Josiah Read is believed the earliest white settler, having purchased a mile-long tract from the . . . — — Map (db m141435) HM |
| On Hempstead Street at Bulkeley Place, on the right when traveling north on Hempstead Street. |
| | Founder of New London May 6, 1646 Governor of Connecticut 1657, 1659-1676 --------------- The Charter of Connecticut was procured by him from King Charles II April 23, 1662 --------------- To commemorate his great services to this commonwealth the . . . — — Map (db m48199) HM |
| On Broad Street at Williams Street, on the right when traveling west on Broad Street. |
| | Born in Coventry Connecticut June 6, 1755 A schoolmaster in New London, A captain in the Continental Army who “resign’d his life a sacrifice to his country’s Liberty at New York Sept. 22d 1776” “I only regret that I have but one . . . — — Map (db m48203) HM |
| On West Main Street (Connecticut Route 156) at Liberty Way, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | Bride Brooke
A.D. 1664 – 1647
"It fell out the first winter of our settling there that Jonathan Rudd being to be maried at Saybrooke there falling out at yt tyme a great snow the magistrate intended to goe downe thither was hindered by the . . . — — Map (db m32331) HM |
| On Pennsylvania Avenue (Connecticut Route 161) at Smith Street, on the left when traveling north on Pennsylvania Avenue. |
| | East Lyme
Settled in the 1640's in part of Lyme and New London. East Lyme was made a separate town in 1839 by the Connecticut General Assembly. In what was originally a farming area along the Old Post Road, a cottage textile indistry developed . . . — — Map (db m32330) HM |
| On Washington Street at Lathrop Lane, on the left when traveling south on Washington Street. |
| | East District School
Once upon a time in Norwich...
In 1789, when Norwich was the second largest city in the State, Thomas Leffingwell IV sold to the inhabitants of the East School District for 6 pounds, land “for the purpose of said . . . — — Map (db m101941) HM |
| On Washington Street at Lathrop Lane, on the right when traveling south on Washington Street. |
| | Lathrop Manor
John Olmstead, Norwich's first physician, settled here in 1661 and later sold his house to Samuel Lathrop. After the original house burned in 1745, it was rebuilt by Samuel's son, Dr. Daniel Lathrop. Near the family home, Dr. Lathrop . . . — — Map (db m101913) HM |
| On Washington Street at Veterans of Foreign Wars Highway (Route 2), on the right when traveling south on Washington Street. |
| | Leffingwell Inn
In 1675, Steven Backus built a simple two-room, side-chimney house. Over two centuries, it would be modified many times. Thomas Leffingwell, a founder of Norwich and friend of the Great Sachem, Uncas, bought the house in 1700 and . . . — — Map (db m101942) HM |
| On Washington Street at Lathrop Lane, on the right when traveling south on Washington Street. |
| | Lowthorpe Meadows
Of this 18-acre meadow, the manor portion was deeded to a trust in 1907 by Emily Serena Gilman and Louisa Gilman Lane “in consideration of their love and goodwill to the inhabitants of Norwich, and in memory of their . . . — — Map (db m101911) HM |
| On East Town Street at Town Street, on the right when traveling north on East Town Street. |
| | English settlers in southeastern Connecticut aided the Mohegan Tribe many times during the 17th century Pequot and Narragansett Wars. In 1645 Thomas Leffingwell and others helped lift a Narragansett siege of the Mohegans Fort Shantok on the Thames . . . — — Map (db m101909) HM |
| On East Town Street at Town Street, on the right when traveling north on East Town Street. |
| | The Green
In 1659 the Mohegan chief Uncas sold to settlers led by Major John Mason and the Reverend James Fitch “nine miles square”, part of which became Norwich.
Acording to Francis M. Caulkins’s history of Norwich, “At the end . . . — — Map (db m101910) HM |
| On Lyme Street at High School Road, on the left when traveling north on Lyme Street. |
| | As early as the 1640’s settlers from Saybrook cleared and planted land on the east side of the Connecticut River in what is now Old Lyme. The first recorded grant of land, in 1649, was to Matthew Griswold in the Black Hall quarter. By 1665 the . . . — — Map (db m65180) HM |
| On West Broad Street (U.S. 1) east of Coggswell Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| |
First built about 1712
Subsequently rebuilt in
1734 * 1795 * 1811
1858 * 1885
— — Map (db m115170) HM |
| On Stonington Road (U.S. 1) 0.5 miles north of Elm Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Stonington
This coastline of Pequot Indian country was first mapped by Adriaen Block from Holland in 1614. The first settlers in 1649 were William and Anna Chesebrough at Wequetequock Cove. The next year Thomas Stanton built a trading post on the . . . — — Map (db m68274) HM |
| On Palmer Neck Road 0.1 miles south of Greenhaven Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | William Chesebrough
The first white settler of Stonington. Born in England, 1594. Migrated to America in John Winthrops company, which planted Boston in 1630. After spending a few years in Rehoboth Mass. He, with his wife and four sons in 1649 . . . — — Map (db m68756) HM |
| On Main Street near Church Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Thomas Howe
Circa 1790
Lived in by Howe Descendants
1797-1957
First Stonington Library
1887-1899 — — Map (db m68734) HM |
| On Palmer Neck Road 0.1 miles south of Greenhaven Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 1650
Wequetequock
Burial Ground
First
Stonington
Cemetery — — Map (db m68755) HM |
| On Norwich-New London Turnpike (Connecticut Route 32) south of Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| |
(side 1)
This area was long the home of the Mohegan Indians, by settlement before the Colonial period, and by reservation until more recent years.
Prominent Indian sachems were Owaneco and his father Uncas, who defeated the chief . . . — — Map (db m114904) HM |
| | English colonists first harvested crops on Fog Plain and Mamacoke in 1645, gradually displacing the native Nehantic and Pequot Indians.
Farm lots were allocated to individual colonists in 1651 and in 1653 a sawmill site and house lot were . . . — — Map (db m66456) HM |
| On U.S. 6 at Jonathan Trumbull Highway (Connecticut Route 87), on the right when traveling east on U.S. 6. |
| | 3 1/2 miles S.E. (route 87)
Eleazar Wheelock’s
Indian School, 1754
from which developed
Dartmouth College. — — Map (db m111675) HM |
| On Bolton Center Rd at Hebron Rd, on the right when traveling east on Bolton Center Rd. |
| | :
Formally known as Hanover or Hartford Mountains, this town was incorporated in 1720, having been settled by a group of “good Christian men” desiring more open farmland.
In 1781 the French army of General Rochambeau, on their way to . . . — — Map (db m140602) HM |
| On Bolton Center Rd at Hebron Rd, on the right when traveling east on Bolton Center Rd. |
| | Bolton
French General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces Arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War for Independence. After wintering in Newport, . . . — — Map (db m140691) HM WM |
| On Jonathan Trumbull Highway (Connecticut Route 87) at Middletown Road (Connecticut Route 66), on the left when traveling south on Jonathan Trumbull Highway. |
| |
In May, 1700, William Clarke and Deacon Josiah
Dewey acquired land in Lebanon Crank
by agreement with Oweneco, son of the Indian
sachem Unicas. Settlers arrived and, in 1715,
pleading remoteness from the place of worship . . . — — Map (db m111908) HM |
| On Jonathan Trumbull Highway (Connecticut Route 87) at Rose Lane, on the right when traveling north on Jonathan Trumbull Highway. |
| | In 1755
Eleazar Wheelock D.D.
minister at Lebanon Crank
now Columbia
founded near this spot
Moor’s Indian Charity School
In 1769
the school was removed to
Hanover New Hampshire
From this beginning arose
Dartmouth . . . — — Map (db m111909) HM |
| On Rose Lane, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Moor’s Charity School
1755 - 1769
Columbia, Connecticut
proudly remembered for two hundred years
by generations of Dartmouth Men
as seeding ground of Dartmouth College
and faithful steward of Eleazar Wheelock’s
generous and . . . — — Map (db m111911) HM |
| Near South St. 0.2 miles west of 2299 South St, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Durable stone preserve the monumental
record Nathan Hale Esq. a Capt. in the
army of the United States who was born
June 6th, 1755 and received the first honors
of Yale College Sept. 1773 resign’d his
life a sacrifice to his . . . — — Map (db m141044) HM |
| On Lake St at Monument Hill Rd, on the left when traveling south on Lake St. |
| | Captain Nathan Hale
June 6, 1755 - September 22, 1776
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my Country”
— — Map (db m140697) HM WM |
| On Main St 0.1 miles east of Brookline Rd, on the left when traveling east. |
| |
Side 1
This land was known to the Indians as Wonggumbaug – “crooked pond” from the curved shape of the large body of water within the present town limits. It was set off in 1706 to be divided by deedholders from . . . — — Map (db m140597) HM |
| On South St. 0.2 miles west of Seagraves Rd, on the left when traveling west. |
| | This triangular plot was planted
with sugar maples set in rows A.D.
1812 by David Hale, nephew of
Nathan Hale the Patriot - for
more than a Century it has been
called “Holy Grove”
A brotherhood of venerable trees . . . — — Map (db m141042) HM |
| Near South St. 0.3 miles west of Seagraves Rd, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Hale Memorial
Strong Homestead
Nathan Hale’s mother Elizabeth Strong (1727-1767) lived in this early eighteenth Century house before her marriage in 1746 to Richard Hale. Six of her nine sons were engaged in the War of the American Revolution . . . — — Map (db m141040) HM |
| On Boston Turnpike (U.S. 44) at Grant Hill Road, on the left when traveling east on Boston Turnpike. |
| | The Grant Farm / Storrs House Site
The first settler to build on this property (across the street at the corner of Grant Hill Road and Boston Turnpike) was Solomon Grant in the mid 1700’s. Noah Grant, Solomon’s brother, succeeded him as the . . . — — Map (db m142442) HM |
| On Main Street (Connecticut Route 286) at Park Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Ellington
This region was named by Indian inhabitants Weaxskashuck, meaning Great Marsh. Early white settlers called it Windsor Goshen or Great Marsh. In 1671 Town of Windsor purchased western part from the Indians, receiving eastern portion later . . . — — Map (db m111898) HM |
| On Main Street (Connecticut Route 286) at Park Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Site Of The
First Meeting House
Ellington
Congregational Church
1739 — 1806
Marker Erected By Ellington Grange 1976 — — Map (db m111899) HM |
| On Warrenville Road (Connecticut Route 89) 0.5 miles north of Route 195, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Front The area that became Mansfield was included
in land acquired by sixteen residents of
Norwich and nearby towns from Mohegan Indian
chief Joshua, son of Uncas. This tract was
incorporated as the town of Windham in 1692.
At . . . — — Map (db m101968) HM |
| On Main Street at Battle Street (Connecticut Route 190), on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Somers Named 1734
Settlement was begun here in "East Enfield" about 1706 by Benjamin Jones, followed in 1713 by Edward Kibbe, James Pease, Timothy Roote, and John McGregory. The Town of Somers was incorporated in 1734 by the General Court of . . . — — Map (db m113828) HM |
| On River Road (Connecticut Route 32) near Main Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This is the home of the famous mineral springs where the Indians met to drink the iron and sulphur waters to make them “lively” and to which the future President John Adams came for his health in 1771. Later the elite of the Nation . . . — — Map (db m111917) HM |
| On Old Post Road at Tolland Green, on the right when traveling west on Old Post Road. |
| | Tolland
Formerly a part of Windsor and named after Tolland in England, was settled in 1713 and granted a charter in 1715. The first homes were built in 1713 on a highway at Grant's Hill, so called from ancestors of President Ulysses S. Grant. . . . — — Map (db m111914) HM |
| On Old Stafford Road at Dunn Hill Road, on the left when traveling north on Old Stafford Road. |
| | 1715 Tolland 2015
300th Anniversary
Our Founders
On its 300th anniversary in 2015, the town of Tolland honored these 59 pioneers, who, on May 9, 1713, first petitioned the colony to create our beloved town. Tolland was granted a charter on . . . — — Map (db m111913) HM |
| | Hitching Post # 3
Animal control was a topic of government interest in Union early on. At a town meeting on December 25, 1738 Alexander McNall, (Union’s first settler) was chosen fence viewer and Amos Stickney and W. Robert Paul were continued . . . — — Map (db m123871) HM |
| On Buckley Hwy (Route 190) at Town Hall Road, on the right when traveling east on Buckley Hwy. |
| | Union Incorporated 1734
This was the last town to be settled east of the Connecticut River, because of its rough terrain and poor soil. In 1633 John Oldham, an adventurer from Massachusetts, obtained from the Indians here specimens of black lead . . . — — Map (db m113802) HM |
| On W. Main Street at Elm Street, on the left when traveling east on W. Main Street. |
| |
First settled by families from East Windsor in 1716 and originally a part of East Windsor and Bolton, the Town of Vernon was incorporated in 1808 by division of the Town of Bolton. In 1889 the City of Rockville, named from the Rock Mill, was . . . — — Map (db m111842) HM |
| On Route 97, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Abington
Congregational Meeting House
Built 1751
Placed on
National Register of Historic Places
September 19, 1977
By United States Department
Of Interior — — Map (db m123852) HM |
| On Route 97, on the left when traveling south. |
| |
Abington Meeting House
Erected 1751
Oldest Now Standing
In Connecticut — — Map (db m123851) HM |
| On U.S. 44 at Fitts Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 44. |
| | This area, part of the Wabbaquasset Indian country, was deeded to Captain James Fitch of Norwich in 1684 by Owaneco, sachem of the Mohegans. An earlier one having failed to act, a new committee was appointed by the General Assembly in May, 1710 to . . . — — Map (db m93606) HM |
| On Canterbury Road (Connecticut Route 169) at U.S. 6, on the right when traveling south on Canterbury Road. |
| | Formerly Mortlake, first settled 1703, made a town on 2nd Thursday of May, 1786. Home of General Israel Putnam prior to and after the Revolution.
Town landmarks include:
Meeting House on the Green, built 1771 by First Ecclesiastical . . . — — Map (db m93440) HM |
| On Connecticut Route 169 at U.S. 6, on the right when traveling north on State Route 169. |
| | In the field behind this stone
after the close of the French and Indian Wars,
returning from many expeditions to Ticonderoga, Fort
Edward, Quebec, Montreal, Havana, Detroit, and New Orleans,
lived Col. Israel Putnam.
Here with his wife . . . — — Map (db m93633) HM |
| On John Perry Road near Westford Rd. |
| | In Memory of John Perry
Eastford’s first settler 1710
Erected by Eastford Historical Society 1977 — — Map (db m122916) HM |
| On Main Street (Connecticut Route 12) at Academy Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | Front Settled in 1700 and incorporated in 1708, Killingly was the forty-second town established in Connecticut.
In 1653, the second John Winthrop obtained a grant of a large tract of land formerly held by the Quinebaug Indian tribe and . . . — — Map (db m93380) HM |
| On Pomfret Street (Route 44), on the right when traveling north. |
| | On this site, Benjamin Cargill operated a grist mill
originally built in 1730, adding a distillery and other
shops in 1760. The Pomfret Manufacturing Company
later built the Pomfret Cotton Mills to produce textile
products in 1807; it is the . . . — — Map (db m126039) HM |
| On Thompson Road (Connecticut Route 193) at Thomson Hill Road (Route 200), on the left when traveling north on Thompson Road. |
| | Front The territory which the Nipmuc Indians called
“Quinnatisset”, now included in the town of
Thompson, was settled in 1693. The first
settler, Richard Evans of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, purchased 200 acres in the . . . — — Map (db m101969) HM |
| On Windham Green Road at Plains Road, on the left when traveling south on Windham Green Road. |
| | 1758 1924
This Tablet Erected by the
Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter
D.A.R.
To Commemorate the Legend of
The Battle of the Frogs — — Map (db m140009) HM |
| On Windham Center Road at Plains Road, on the left when traveling north on Windham Center Road. |
| | The area which became Windham was a part of Joshúa's Tract, bequeathed to Captain John Mason and other Norwich men in a will dated February 29, 1675, by Mohegan Indian chief Joshua, son of Uncas. The gift included land in the present towns of . . . — — Map (db m140008) HM |
| | Front John Eliot and Daniel Gookin visited
“Wabquisset” in 1674 to preach to upward
of one hundred and fifty Indians. Soon
after, King Philip''s war broke out and by
August 1675, Captain Nathaniel Thomas of
Providence . . . — — Map (db m123515) HM |
| On Connecticut Route 169, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Front Near this place, in 1636, Thomas Hooker and
his party may have passed by way of the
Connecticut Path, going to settle what is now
Hartford. In 1674 John Eliot, Apostle to the
Indians, Pastor of the First Church in Roxbury, . . . — — Map (db m123401) HM |
| On Old Camden Road (U.S. 113A) 0.1 miles south of U.S. 13. |
| | In 1680 Alexander Humphreys received a warrant from the county court for 600 acres of land which he called Brecknock. The tract is believed to have been named for a shire of Wales. A milling operation was established here in the 1740’s. For nearly . . . — — Map (db m39507) HM |
| | Caesar Rodney-Born on October 7, 1728 on a farm east of Dover, Caesar Rodney was one of Delaware's most distinguished statesmen. Entering public life at an early age, Rodney held numerous local offices. He was a member of the Colonial State . . . — — Map (db m141257) HM |
| On South Main Street near East Camden Wyoming Avenue. |
| |
Gov. George
Truitt Home
Circa 1750
National
Register of
Historic
Places
— — Map (db m113688) HM |
| On Millington Road (Delaware Route 6) at Blackiston Church Road (Delaware Route 131), on the right when traveling east on Millington Road. |
| | A local society of Methodists was organized circa 1778. On May 16, 1781, they obtained land here on which to build a permanent house of worship. A large frame church was then constructed and named Blackiston's Chapel, to honor the family that . . . — — Map (db m40190) HM |
| On Easr Loockerman Street at Federal Street, in the median on Easr Loockerman Street. |
| | Richard Allen founded and became the first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816. Born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1760, Allen and his family were sold to a family near Dover in 1772. While there, . . . — — Map (db m39093) HM |
| On Delaware Route 9 at Bergold Lane, on the right when traveling north on State Route 9. |
| | Near this site stood the boyhood home of Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Brigadier General of the State's militia (1775-1778), and President (Governor) of Delaware (1778-1781). Byfield was originally settled in the early . . . — — Map (db m75835) HM |
| On South State Street at East Water Street on South State Street. |
| | Statesman, Soldier and Patriot. Member of Stamp Act Congress and of First and Second Continental Congresses. Signer of Declaration of Independence. Member and Speaker of Colonial Assembly of “Three Lower Counties on Delaware.” Member of . . . — — Map (db m39067) HM |
| | In memory of
1734 Charles Inglis 1816
1759 Rector of this parish 1765
1787 Bishop of Nova Scotia 1816
First Colonial Bishop in the British Empire
His wife Mary Vining and their two infant children rest in the churchyard. — — Map (db m42757) HM |
| Near South Governor's Avenue 0.1 miles south of W North Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Presbyterian minister, later practiced medicine, Member of Colonial Assembly, Member of Council of Safety, 1775. Commanded First Delaware Militia Regiment. This regiment, reviewed in Dover, later joined Washington’s army and fought in Battles of . . . — — Map (db m4716) HM |
| On West North Street just east of South Governors Avenue (Alternate U.S. 13), on the left when traveling east. |
| | These two words say a great deal about Dover. It is a modern and growing city entering the 21st century on a foundation of achievement built over more than 300 years of American history.
And a rich history it is. Founded by William Penn in . . . — — Map (db m142501) HM |
| | County seat since 1680. William Penn, in 1683, ordered townsite laid out and named Dover. Plotted in 1717. Temporary capital in 1777 and permanent capital since 1779. Federal Constitution ratified here in 1787 making Delaware First State in Union. . . . — — Map (db m51115) HM |
| On Liberty Street just from Duke of York Street. |
| | The Light Infantry Company of Dover, a part of the 1st Battalion of Kent County, mustered in on 2 April
1776. Each militia volunteer was uniformly armed,
equipped, and wore a standard military coat of green
faced with red lapels, cuffs, and . . . — — Map (db m39576) HM |
| On West North Street at Dairy Barn Way on West North Street. |
| | In 1680, a large tract of land called "Brothers Portion" was warranted to John and Richard Walker. In 1695, 200 acres of the parcel were purchased to create the town of Dover. When the town plot was completed in 1718, John Mifflin purchased 69 acres . . . — — Map (db m94380) HM |
| | "The Penman of the Revolution." Member of Delaware colonial and state assemblies. Member of Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and Philadelphia Federal Constitutional Convention. Signer for Delaware of Articles of Confederation and Federal . . . — — Map (db m39583) HM |
| | In 1723 Nicholas Loockerman purchased 600 acres of land known as “The Range.” Following his death in 1771, the property passed to his grandson Vincent Loockerman Jr. Evidence suggests that he built the Georgian-style mansion known today . . . — — Map (db m39053) HM |
| On South State Street at East Water Street on South State Street. |
| | In this churchyard lie the remains of Nicholas Ridgely, Statesman and Jurist. Born in Dover, 1762, eldest son of Dr. Charles Greenbury Ridgely and Mary Wynkoop Ridgely. Member of State Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution, December 7, . . . — — Map (db m39066) HM |
| On South State Street at Water Street, on the right when traveling north on South State Street. |
| | Founded as mission by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in response to a petition from twenty-two inhabitants of Dover in 1703. The present church was erected in 1734. Among early missionaries here was the Rev. Charles Inglis, later . . . — — Map (db m3803) HM |
| | Born in 1740 in Dover, Kent Co., DE
Died Feb, 15, 1791 in Dover, Kent Co., DE
Justice of the Peace
Member of Joint Committee of Accounts, Committee of Correspondence, Council of Safety, and General Assembly. — — Map (db m42754) HM |
| On South Governor's Avenue 0.2 miles south of West North Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | A Presbyterian Society, present in Kent from c1694, was organized and worshipped in a log church on this site from c1708 until 1791. The Presbytery of Philadelphia recognized its congregation in 1714. The present church was built in 1791 and served . . . — — Map (db m5166) HM |
| On Kitts Hummock Road just from Bergold Lane. |
| | This part of what is now Kent County, Delaware was one of the state's earliest sites of English colonization. Beginning in the 1660's plantations were established along the St. Jones River. The Dickinson family of Talbot County, Maryland was among . . . — — Map (db m39581) HM |
| | The St. Jones River, a major Delaware navigable waterway, is situated south of the John Dickinson Plantation. The river connects the Delaware Bay to the inland city of Dover. Between 1760 and 1808, John Dickinson owned six farms that bordered the . . . — — Map (db m79168) HM |
| | Part of a tract of 3,000 acres granted to John Hillyard by William Penn, March 7, 1683. His great-grandson, Charles Hillyard, built this mansion and resided here with his wife, Mary, daughter of William Killen, first Chancellor of Delaware. . . . — — Map (db m42761) HM |
| On South State Street just from Quaker Hill Road. |
| | Quakers were gathering for worship in this area by 1712, when members of the Religious Society of Friends met "at the widow Needham's at Murderkill Creek." Established as Motherkiln Preparative Meeting (under the care of Duck Creek Meeting), the . . . — — Map (db m39459) HM |
| On South State Street just from Quaker Hill Road. |
| | A native of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Mifflin came to Delaware as a young man. Born into a slaveholding Quaker family, he manumitted his own slaves in 1774-75 and later became one of America's foremost abolitionists of the 18th century. As an elder . . . — — Map (db m39456) HM |
| On Crownstone Road (Route 454), on the left when traveling west. |
| | Responsible for marking the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania (including the "Three Lower Counties" of Delaware), Mason and Dixon began their survey of the North-South or Tangent Line at the southwestern corner of present-day Delaware in June . . . — — Map (db m37052) HM |
| | Christ Church Mispillion was the second parish in Delaware established by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Rev. Thomas Crawford first held services of the Church of England in lower Kent County in 1704. The . . . — — Map (db m69033) HM |
| On Northeast Front Street (Delaware Route 14) just east of Denny Row. Reported unreadable. |
| | 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 m142576) HM |
| | In 1706 John Allee, of a Huguenot family, bought a
600-acre tract, "Woodstock Bower," of which this land
is a part. One of his sons, Abraham, was prominent in
Kent County affairs until his death in 1776: Member
of the General Assembly 1726, . . . — — Map (db m39589) HM |
| On U.S. 13, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1733 a charter was granted to “a dissenting congregation” of Scots and Irish Presbyterians who had settled in this area. A Meeting House was subsequently erected at this location. The Reverend Thomas Evans conducted the first service . . . — — Map (db m39032) HM |
| Near N. Main Street just from Mt. Vernon Street. |
| | In 1764, Thomas Green sold a one-quarter acre lot at this location to his grandson, Charles Green. Some time thereafter, Charles established a facility for the manufacturing of redware pottery on this site. The business is known to have been in . . . — — Map (db m39678) HM |
| | The first religious organization to hold services in Duck Creek Hundred - 1705. Property transferred to Duck Creek Historical Society - 1962. Michael Desmond, Jr's Eagle Scout Restoration Project - 2002. — — Map (db m39711) HM |
| Near Cauffiel Parkway near U.S. 13. |
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Once the summer home of a prosperous Wilmington businessman and his family, the Cauffiel House has changed little since it was built in the late 1920s. The colonial style brick house still looks down to the Delaware River over land that was . . . — — Map (db m39709) HM |
| On Old Baltimore Pike (Delaware Route 7) near Delaware Route 7, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Known in its early days as the "Presbyterian Church at Christiana Bridge," this congregation was organized in the 1730s. A church structure was built on this site soon after and a graveyard was established by the mid-18th century. Rev. Charles . . . — — Map (db m145161) HM |
| On W. Main Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The origin of this congregation may be traced to the earliest days of Methodism in America. In March, 1771, Joseph Pilmore, one of the first Methodist missionaries from England, preached outdoors at Christiana. Upon returning in 1773, Pilmore noted . . . — — Map (db m145164) HM |
| On Christiana Bypass (Delaware Route 273) just west of Brown's Lane. |
| | Colonel George Talbot , cousin of Lord Baltimore, in defiance of William Penn's claim to Delaware, erected a fort nearby, 1684, on land of the Widow Ogle. Talbot dispossessed settlers between here and Iron Hill who refused to acknowledge Baltimore . . . — — Map (db m145052) HM |
| On W. Main Street, on the right when traveling east. |
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Colonial River Port and Crossroads
A National Historic District
1684
[reverse side]
Named for Queen Christina of Sweden
Home of Col. John Read
Landing of Marquis de Lafayette and 1500 Troops. March 1781
Major colonial . . . — — Map (db m145361) |
| On Philadelphia Pike (Business U.S. 13), on the right when traveling north. |
| | John Grubb, one of the original English settlers in Delaware, acquired a one-third interest in a 600 acre tract of land at this location in 1680. Several generations passed and the Grubb family greatly increased their land holdings in the area and . . . — — Map (db m146375) HM |
| Near Philadelphia Pike at Naamans Road. |
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The oldest portion of this structure is believed to have been built circa 1730. In the 1740s the house and surrounding property were sold to Philadelphia merchant Thomas Robinson. Other holdings included a milling operation and landing on nearby . . . — — Map (db m14704) HM |
| Near Concord Pike, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In 1682, William Penn granted 986 acres of land at this location to Valentine Hollingsworth. A portion of the tract was subsequently conveyed to the Robinson family in 1726. The present stone dwelling was erected here circa 1750. In 1785, Gunning . . . — — Map (db m92148) HM |
| On Glasgow Avenue (old Rt. 896) 0.1 miles north of Pulaski Highway (U.S. 40), on the right when traveling north. |
| | In the years prior to the Revolutionary War, John Aiken commenced the operation of a tavern and storehouse at this location near the intersection of two of the major roadways of the Delmarva Peninsula. Aided by their proximity to this important . . . — — Map (db m153860) HM |
| On Pulaski Highway (U.S. 40). |
| | Delaware boundaries are made up of three distinct lines.
* The 12-mile radius, surveyed 1701.
** The Transpeninsular Line, surveyed 1751.
*** The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed 1763.
All the lines were completed even before Delaware became a . . . — — Map (db m153857) HM |
| On Glasgow Avenue (old Rt. 896) at Pulaski Highway (U.S. 40), on the right when traveling north on Glasgow Avenue (old Rt. 896). |
| | On October 15, 1701, William Penn granted 30,000 acres of land to William Davies, David Evans, and William Willis "in behalf of themselves and Company of new Welsh Purchasers." Known as the Welsh Tract, this expansive holding attracted large numbers . . . — — Map (db m153859) HM |
| On Old Wilmington Road at Farmstead Drive, on the right when traveling west on Old Wilmington Road. |
| | In 1726, William and Catherine Cox built a Flemish bond brick house named "Ocasson" on 350 acres of land acquired from Letitia Penn. William Phillips and his heirs owned the farm from 1766-1830 and added a bank barn by 1770. From 1830-1856 Quaker . . . — — Map (db m157190) HM |
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