Rochambeau Route 1781 – 82

In this vicinity

French Troops under

Rochambeau

enroute to Yorktown

encamped during June 1781

Erected by the state

and

Mattatuck Branch,

Sons Amer. Rev.

Cooperating

Marker is on Middlebury Road (Connecticut Route 64) 0.1 miles west of Charcoal Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Monterey's Commercial Fishing Fleet

This harbor is the home of....

Monterey's Commerical Fishing Fleet.

It once boasted the largest sardine fishing industry in the world, an industry that flourished until the late 1940's. Commercial fishing was pioneered and developed here by the Sicilian fishermen, whose courage ...

Middlebury

The name of the town derives from the central

position its meeting house occupies, six

miles from three older neighbors, Waterbury,

Southbury and Woodbury.

Winter ecclesiastical privileges, permitting

local church services, were established for

West Farms, originally the southwest portion

of Waterbury, in 1768. In 1790, West ...

William Barker Hubbell

1816 – 1894

In Memory of Forty-Niner

William Barker Hubbell

1816 – 1894

Who built his building for a

General Store circa 1867

Served as Justice of the Peace

1888 – 1892

Marker is on Main Street (Old Highway 49) near Fiefield Street, on the right when traveling ...

John Moses Browning Home

Utah Historic Site

Home constructed of sandstone blocks and red bricks. Completed in 1900. Built for John Moses Browning --- world famous gun maker. Architect Sam Whittaker. Purchased by Y.W.C.A. of Ogden in 1949

Marker is on 27th Street near Adams Avenue. ...

Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn and the Civil Rights Act

On the night of July 11, 1964 three African-American World War II veterans returning home following training at Ft. Benning, Georgia were noticed in Athens by local members of the Ku Klux Klan. The officers were followed to the nearby ...

Porterville

Porterville was settled by the members of the Porter Family. Sanford Porter Jr., while on duty as a scout in the winter of 1857-58, rode into a canyon so rocky and difficult to travel that he named it Hardscrabble. Here ...

First Almshouse

During the 1999 restoration of City Hall Park, archaeological excavations uncovered burials in this area believed to have been associated with a shelter and workhouse for the poor known as the First Almshouse (1736 – 1797), located where City Hall ...

Riverton

-- Riverton --

Northeastern Gateway to the Litchfield Hills

Old Hartford – Albany Stage Route

Home of Hitchcock Chairs

One Mile to Peoples Forest

1 1/2 Miles to Site of Barkhamsted Lighthouse

Home Of L.A. Cooke War Governor

Col. Justin Hodge Mexican & Civil War Hero

Marker is ...

Liberty Poles

Here in the ancient commons of the city, where before the time of our national independence five liberty poles were successively set up, this flag pole of 1921 is placed in grateful remembrance of all lovers of our country who ...