The Parade Grounds

For more than thirty years during the mid-1800s, soldiers drilled on the large parade ground before you. Flanked by the officer’s quarters to the right and the enlisted men’s barracks on the left, the parade ground was the center of ...

The Parade Ground

The Parade Ground

Few things better symbolize the history and evolution of a New England town than the town green. Set aside as the town "common" in the original 1670 plan of development, Wallingford's town green, or"Parade Ground," is as old ...

The Parade Ground of Fort Cumberland

Occupied this site 1755

Here the Indian envoys were received before Braddock left for his defeat. In 1756-58 the garrison under Col. Washington was still reviewed here.

Marker is at the intersection of Washington St. and Prospect Square, on the left when ...