Bridgeport is the county seat for Fairfield County
Newtown is in Fairfield County
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On Main Street (Connecticut Route 25) at Church Hill Road (Connecticut Route 6), on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
Cyrenius H. Booth Library
Has Been Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
By The United States
Department of the Interior
1932 — — Map (db m42368) HM
On Church Hill Road (U.S. 6) at Queen Street, on the right when traveling east on Church Hill Road.
1732 ---- 1932
In Commemoration Of
The Two Hundredth Birthday Of
George Washington
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Rochambeau
Established a Camp Here
June 28 To July 1, 1781
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Soldiers Commanded By
Lafayette
Camped At This Spot
Placed by Mary . . . — — Map (db m26914) HM
On Main Street (Connecticut Route 25) at East Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
This area, then known as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. Settled from Stratford and incorporated in 1711, Newtown was a stronghold of Tory settlement during the early Revolutionary War. French General Rochambeau and . . . — — Map (db m190109) HM
On Church Hill Road (U.S. 6) at Queen Street, on the right when traveling west on Church Hill Road.
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, Rochambeau’s . . . — — Map (db m26915) HM
