East Haven Charter Day

Town of East Haven

Connecticut

This flagpole was dedicated to the residents of the Town

of East Haven on Charter Day May 10, 1985 in observance

of the 200th Anniversary of the Town Incorporation and

granting of its Charter.

Mayor Anthony Proto Jr.

East Haven ...

Marquis de Lafayette Encampment

Marquis de Lafayette

1757 1834

General in the Continental Army

Camped Here With 2800 Troops

Enroute to Rhode Island

July 26 and 27, 1778

dedicated here by

CT Society Sons of the American Revolution

General David Humphries Branch

and

The East Haven Historical Society

1996

Marker is at the intersection of Main ...

Site of the Theodore Roosevelt Oak

This is the Site Of

The Theodore Roosevelt Oak

Given by The

President of The United States

To the Town of East Haven

On May 1, 1908

Erected by

The East Haven Women's Club

1965

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 100) and Hemingway Avenue ...

Philadelphia Brigade Monument

(east or front face):

The

Philadelphia Brigade

fought here

September 17, 1862

Loss - 545 men

Second Brigade

(north face):

The

Philadelphia Brigade

was mustered into the

U.S. Service in 1861

under the first call for

300,000 three year volunteers.

2nd Regiment Delaware Infantry

4th Brigade, 1st Division

Position

held by

the 2nd Reg.

Del. Vol.

Infantry

4th Brig. 1st Div.

2nd Army Corps.

July 2nd

1863.

Erected by the State of

Delaware to commemorate

the gallantry of

her sons.

A.D. 1885.

Marker is on Brooke Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jacobus Demarest Homestead

The earliest part of this house, one of the oldest in the county, was built on land purchased in 1677 by David Demarest, Sr., founder of the Huguenot Colony in Bergen County. His grandson Jacobus, born 1681, lived here until ...

Alfred Holt Colquitt

Governor of Georgia (1877-1882), U.S. Congressman (1853-1855), U.S. Senator (1883-1894), Major U.S. Army in the Mexican War, Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army, Alfred Holt Colquitt is buried here. Born in Walton County, Georgia, April 20, 1824, he died in Washington, ...

3rd Delaware Infantry

Delaware

3rd Delaware Volunteers

Major Arthur MaGinnis

3rd Brigade,

2nd Division, XII Corps

This regiment, worn down from active

service in the second Manassas Campaign,

went into action Sept. 17, 1862 with only

five officers and 120 men. It started

out on the right of the Union line in

front ...

"Brentland"

2.6

?

miles

Birthplace of Acting Brigadier General Joseph Lancaster Brent, C.S.A. (1826-1909). He served in the Trans-Mississippi Department during the Civil War and took part in the siege of Vicksburg.

Marker is at the intersection of Port Tobacco Road (Maryland Route 6) ...

Portland Civil War Monument

1861 - 1865

More than four thousand men

were enrolled from Portland

in the army and navy for the

War of the Rebellion

More than three hundred were

killed in battle or

died in service.

Honor and grateful remembrance

to the dead, equal honor to those

who, daring to ...