American Liberty Elm
Dedicated by the Derby Historical
Society July 10, 2002
on the 250th Anniversary of the
Birth of General David Humphreys
1752 – 1818
Sponsored by
The City of Ansonia — — Map (db m25567) HM
Here the first settlers came in 1654 and established a settlement called Uptown Derby. It is now part of the City of Ansonia, incorporated in 1889.
South of this green is the home of General David Humphreys who, as aide-de-camp to General George . . . — — Map (db m25564) HM
[ Center Panel ]
Lest We Forget This memorial is dedicated by the grateful citizens of the City of Ansonia to preserve and honor the memory of all those brave men and women who served our country so selflessly in time of conflict.
. . . — — Map (db m25537) WM
In observance of the U.S. Bicentennial, Elizabeth Clarke Hull Chapter NSDAR marks the site of a Charter Oak seedling given to the City of Ansonia Oct. 27, 1966, by former Mayor Frank P. Fitzpatrick
May 15, 1976 — — Map (db m25407) HM
[Marker Front]: To The Memory
Of These Pupils of The
Elm Street School
Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice
For Their Country During
The World War
This Monument Is Dedicated
William F. Bresnahan 18th. Inf. 1st. Div, . . . — — Map (db m25566) HM
Pork Hollow. Near this spot where hidden military stores belonging to the army of the Revolution during Tryon’s raid through Connecticut. — — Map (db m29526) HM
The lands of Beacon Falls first appear in history when Milford was settled in 1639. Northern boundary of Milford was Beacon Hill Brook, separating the hunting grounds of the Paugasuck and Tunxis Indians. In 1675 the land became part of Derby. . . . — — Map (db m21932) HM
In 1738 Amity Parish in New Haven and Milford, including most of present-day Woodbridge and Bethany, was incorporated by the General Assembly of Connecticut Colony. The earliest schoolhouse was built in 1750 in the northern half of Amity Parish. It . . . — — Map (db m22566) HM
To the Memory of Those Citizens of Bethany Who Left Home With the Armed Forces In Defense of This Nation Erected by Beletzky - Hoppe VFW Post 2448 — — Map (db m22567) WM
[ left panel ]
Harold Durley USMC 1961 – 1964 • George D Vaill Sr USN WWII • Timothy L Vaill USN Vietnam • George D Vaill Jr. USAF Vietnam • Ernest Russell USA Korea • Harold E Lineweber USA Korea • Marcel J Lamy USA Korea • George P . . . — — Map (db m152578) HM
Here, overlooking the tidal river, where they might worship God in their own way, English Puritans from Wethersfield in A.D. 1644 erected the first "foursquare," rough-hewn log meeting house of the First Congregational Church in Branford, then . . . — — Map (db m243108) HM
Branford
In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded "eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in the English fashion" to the Mattabesec Indians for land known as Totokett (Tidal River). The First permanent settlement was . . . — — Map (db m35588) HM
Branford
To Her Brave Sons
Who Fought In The War
Of The Rebellion
1861 – 1865
One Country – One Flag
GAR
1885
[ battle names inscribed on the column ]
Antietam • Fredericksburg • Shiloh • Gettysburg • Vicksburg . . . — — Map (db m35645) HM
In Memory of Those Who Served
Those Who Were Disabled In Service
And Those Who Gave Their Lives In
World War II and the Korean Conflict
Vietnam — — Map (db m35587) WM
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose. But young men think it is - and we were young.
George Adams · Elmer P. Anderson · James W. Barba · Bernard B. Brown · David O. Champagne · John W. Clark · William G. Colby · Arthur Morse Curtis · . . . — — Map (db m246101) WM
Pro Patria
1917-1918
( descriptive plaque )
Branford resident and Army veteran, J. Andre Smith designed the Cenotaph as a memorial to World War I servicemen who lost their lives in battle and rest in foreign soil. Its granite carving . . . — — Map (db m245810) WM
In the house of The Rev. Samuel Russel once standing near this spot was held in 1700 the meeting of ministers of the Colony of Connecticut when they gave books for the founding of the collegiate school which now bears the name of Yale University . . . — — Map (db m246098) HM
This building, which was completed and dedicated in 1896, is the gift of Timothy B Blackstone, of
Chicago, Illinois, who died in that city May 26, 1900. Mr Blackstone was born in Branford in 1829, and he gave this building to the people of his . . . — — Map (db m246103) HM
In the early 1800's, the Farmington Canal was built between Northampton and New haven; Irish immigrants dug the canal by hand.
The Canal (sic) locks controlled the flow of the water to compensate for the slope of the land. Farmers living nearby . . . — — Map (db m27567) HM
This old stone was brought from the center of Prospect early in 1899 by a group of Cheshire young men to serve as a “Stepping Stone” for those attending the church which then stood on the east edge of the present green. — — Map (db m48429) HM
Settled in 1695 as Wallingford “West Farms”, this area obtained status as the village of New Cheshire in 1723. It was incorporated as a town in 1780. Cheshire became famous for its agricultural productivity and light manufacturing. . . . — — Map (db m22371) HM
[South face] Lincoln [North face] Foote [ Admiral Andrew Hull Foote ] [East plaque] Erected to The Memory of Those Who Enlisted From The Town of Cheshire in The Civil War 1861 – 1865 Capt. Timothy Guilford Lieut. . . . — — Map (db m22380) HM
On This Tablet Are Inscribed The Honored Names Of the Men of Cheshire Who Went Forth To Fight in the Great War For Humanity and Justice 1917 – 1919
Wilbur W. Adkins • Richard H. Atwood • Earle W. Barnes • George S. Barton • William H. . . . — — Map (db m22403) HM
The Medal of Honor Plaza and “Living Classroom” Dedicated May 26, 1996
Alfred C. Adinolfi, U.S. Air Force, Chairman and Town Councilman
S. Kenneth Baril, U.S. Army • Harold Mosher, U.S. Army • John White, U.S. Navy • Henry E. . . . — — Map (db m22456) HM
[ Right tablet ]
Roll of Honor
Employees Of
Birmingham Iron Foundry
Who Served Their Country
In the World War
1917 – 1919
Dominick Ferrazzoli • J. Kanconvitch • August Romagnoli • Theodore V. Busk • Joseph . . . — — Map (db m25608) HM
[Marker front]: Birthplace of two distinguished wartime heroes
General David Humphreys, aide-de-camp to General George Washington, accepted the British colors at the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. Friend of both Washington and . . . — — Map (db m25568) HM
[ West Face ] In
Memory of The
Men of Derby and Huntington
Who Fell
In the Service of Their Country
In The
War of the Rebellion
1861 – 1865
As
Defenders of Liberty And
Nationality Gettysburg
[ South . . . — — Map (db m25384) HM
Dedicated to Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice and Advanced the American Ideals of Liberty and the Brotherhood of Man
Korea
James Ellingwood Towle 1st Lt. U.S.A.F.
Vietnam
Norman Edward Dawson Jr. P.F.C. U.S.M.C. • George Albert Kurtyka . . . — — Map (db m25404) WM
[ West Face ]
Dedicated To The Memory
Veterans
Derby, Conn.
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam
[ Northwest Face ]
Always Faithful
[ Southwest Face ]
This We’ll Defend
[ Northeast . . . — — Map (db m25386) WM
Bronze Bell
Presented to the Town of East Haven
Commemorating American Bicentennial
1776 – 1976
By the Exchange Club of East Haven
It Served the Christ Church Congregation
From 1848 to 1964
Also Presented By
East Haven . . . — — Map (db m35583) HM
This area, purchased by the Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton in 1638, was later known as East Farms. It was obtained from Indian sachems Momaugin and Mantowese. In 1639 Thomas Gregson, the first landowner, purchased Solitary Cove, . . . — — Map (db m35312) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m35582) HM
This Tribute
To The Worth of Her Sons
Who Have By Land and Sea
Offered Their Lives In Defense of Their Country
Is Erected by The Citizens of East Haven
Dedicated 1911
Rededicated 1990
By East Haven Historical Society and
Economic . . . — — Map (db m35557) HM
Keep Forever
Living The
Freedos For
Which They
Served
Let None Forget
They Gave Their All
And Faltered Not
When Came The Call
Erected By
East Haven Town Green
Restoration Committee
American Legion Post 89
American Legion . . . — — Map (db m35555) WM
1941 1945
East Haven
World War II Memorial
In Loving Memory of Our Sons
Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice
Sisto A. Aldieri • Frederic N. Burdette • John E. Cox • Thomas N. Fenney • Joseph Ferraiolo • Richard J. Fox • Kenneth H. Hall • . . . — — Map (db m35552) HM
East Haven
World War Memorial
Not In Vain They Served
1917
1918
These Gave Their Lives
Harry R. Bartlett
Cortland V. Birdsell
William Corcoran
John B. Healey
John Liedke — — Map (db m35556) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m35581) HM
1774 Old Stone Meeting House 1974
George Landcraft – Designer
Oldest Stone Meeting House in New England
1711 founding of church – Jacob Hemingway first student of Yale, first pastor of church. 1772 started construction. 1774 . . . — — Map (db m35584) HM
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 — — Map (db m35580) HM
This building was constructed in the 1870s as a barn, workshop, and shed when the property was known as the Old Stone House Farm. It was originally located much closer to the back of the Whitfield House.
During the 1930s, the Whitfield House . . . — — Map (db m248396) HM
Dr. John Redfield House originally stood on the green next to the Town Hall, taken down in 1942 & reconstructed on this site by Judge & Mrs. George C. Conway — — Map (db m248409) HM
Faulkner's Island and its historic lighthouse have played an important role in the history of Long Island Sound. The crescent-shaped island contains no less than 3 acres and lies 3 1/2 miles south of the Guilford Harbor. It is listed in the . . . — — Map (db m247047) HM
This house was once a wing of the 1849 Guilford Manufacturing Co. factory, which made steam engines & machinery. The company was bankrupt in three years, and by c.1865 Simeon B. Chittenden converted the wing into a dwelling; massive framing timbers . . . — — Map (db m248406) HM
This House Built
A.D.1639
Was the Home
of
Rev. Henry Whitfield B.D.
First Minister
and
The Leader of the Founders
of Guilford
In honor of whom
this tablet is here placed on the
oldest stone house in New England
by the . . . — — Map (db m248402) HM
Guilford Land Conservation Trust
welcomes you to...
Jared Eliot Trails
Jared Eliot Preserve
Welcome to the Jared Eliot Preserve, a unique sanctuary along Connecticut's intensively developed coast. This property has been protected . . . — — Map (db m246596) HM
Railroads have provided a vital lifeline for Guilford residents since July 1, 1852, when the first train steamed into the new wood-framed depot pictured in the postcard above. For a fare of 60 cents, open flatcars pulled by a small wood-fired . . . — — Map (db m248405) HM
Built by Reuben Stone, a descendant of John Stone, an original settler of Guilford. The Stone family bought the land in 1715 from the family of William Leete and built two houses on the plot; No.6 Broad St. (1769) and No. 22 Broad St. (1790). The . . . — — Map (db m248407) HM
The first minister and a founder of the Plantation of Menuncatuck later named Guilford, Connecticut
1639
Sculpted by Robert Shure
Gift of John Brooks Threlfall
2003 — — Map (db m248023) HM
On September 11, 2001 a surprise terrorist attack originating from across these waters struck America, taking the lives of nearly 3,000 people at the New York Twin Towers, the Pentagon in Washington, DC and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania . . . — — Map (db m247043) WM
The Visitor Center was originally a horse barn built in the 1870s, one of many outbuildings on the Old Stone House Farm when it was owned by the Chittenden family and managed by their tenants. The site became a state museum in 1900, and in 1923, . . . — — Map (db m248358) HM
The Whitfield House has stood on this spot for nearly four centuries. The first stones were laid in 1639 — the same year the Taj Mahal was under construction, three years before Isaac Newton was born, and five years before the end of the Ming . . . — — Map (db m248399) HM
This nature trail is dedicated to the memory of Anne R. Conover in recognition of her contribution to the cause of preserving the tidal wetlands of Connecticut, and to her vision in protecting 200 acres of tidal wetlands that today form the . . . — — Map (db m248812) HM
1640s
The first settlers of Guilford harvest hay from salt meadows along the East River.
1699 Howlet's Bridge is constructed.
1708 Ebenezer Hubbard comes to live in the section known as "Howlet's", named from the lots where the wolves . . . — — Map (db m248816) HM
Salt hay was one of the many resources a marsh had to offer to the early farmer—if he could manage to drag it out of the marsh over soft peat and mud. One innovation in the harvest of salt hay simply involved stacking the hay on a staddle, a . . . — — Map (db m248814) HM
The Tidal Marsh and the Watershed You are now standing 1.5 miles from the mouth of the East River. All water within the East River watershed, which covers half of Guilford and one third of Madison, flows downhill through a network of streams . . . — — Map (db m248820) HM
Banned nationwide in 1972, the pesticide DDT was used in this country to control insect pests. With many fewer insects to feed on, Eastern Bluebird and other songbird populations suffered significant population declines. Bluebirds also died from . . . — — Map (db m248821) HM
1643 • 1702
On this site lived Andrew Leete, principal preserver of the Charter of Conn. from usurper Sir Edmund Andross, 1687, member of the Conn. General Court granting charter to Yale College 1701 — — Map (db m57125) HM
Guilford
This town, the seventh oldest in Connecticut, was founded in 1639 by an oppressed but optimistic band of English Puritans. Henry Whitfield, a minister in Ockley, near London, was the moving spirit behind their emigration. About forty of . . . — — Map (db m57225) HM
In Memory Of The Members
Of The United States Armed Forces
Who Served In The
Korean War
June 25, 1950
July 27, 1953
“Freedom Is Not Free” — — Map (db m57126) WM
In Memory Of All
The Revolutionary Soldiers
Of Guilford, Connecticut.
Placed By
Agnes Dickinson Lee Chapter
Daughters Of The American Revolution
1940 — — Map (db m57224) HM
In Memory Of
The Men Of Guilford
Who Fell
And In Honor Of Those Who Served
The Grateful Town Erects This Monument.
That Their Example May Spread To Coming Generations
Uriah N. Parmelee 1st Cav • Henry B. Bullard 1st Lt Bat • . . . — — Map (db m56941) HM
Vietnam
Each peaceful dawn in this place
we are reminded of these men
who died for their country
Stephen J. Brennan P.F.C.
Ara. Crosby Jr. W.O.
Frederick W. Dauten Jr. Maj.
Dedicated May 28, 1984
Town of Guilford Conn.
God . . . — — Map (db m57124) HM
1917 1918
In Honor of Our Men and Women
Who Served in the World War
John R. Alcorn • Murrie Alcorn • Elmer Anderson • Elmore Ashman • Frank E. Barlow • David B. Beattie • John B. Beattie • Clyde G. Beckwith • Henry S. Beers • George V. Bishop . . . — — Map (db m57123) HM
World War II
1941 – 1945
John C. Rebuzzini, W.T. 1st C. U.S.N. • Edward A. Norton, Pvt. U.S.A. • Donald C. Rood, P.F.C. U.S.A. • Pascoe C. Deaton, 1st Lt. U.S.A.A.F. • Leroy W. Scranton, Jr. MM. 3rd C. U.S.N. • Nicholas J. Gervasoni, T. . . . — — Map (db m57420) HM
Home of Nathaniel Elliot nephew of the Reverend Jared Elliot 1685-1763, Yale 1706 physician, botanist, agriculturist – friend of Benjamin Franklin — — Map (db m57422) HM
The Town of Hamden gratefully accepts the donation of the Campanile and the electronic Carillon by the children of Philip Paolella in honor of Ciro Paolella, founder and president of the Plasticrete Corporation.
Born in Italy, . . . — — Map (db m28699) HM
On this site in 1798, Eli Whitney established the first manufactory for the production of fire arms in the United States. Here he invented and used the uniformity system of manufacture now adopted throughout the world. — — Map (db m28744) HM
ASM International - The Materials Information Society - has designated the Eli Whitney Armory an historical landmark. "On this site between 1798 and 1825, Eli Whitney built the first significant independent American armory. The development of . . . — — Map (db m28750) HM
Incorporated in 1786, this town was originally part of New Haven and was named for John Hampden, noted English statesman. In 1798, at the foot of Lake Whitney, Eli Whitney pioneered in the use of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of arms . . . — — Map (db m28696) HM
Pardee Rose Garden
Planted and Maintained under
the Will and Bequest of
William Scranton Pardee
of this City as a
lasting Memorial of his Mother
Nancy Maria English Pardee
MCMXXII — — Map (db m34721) HM
The Freedom Tree
With The Vision of Universal Freedom
For All Mankind
This Tree Is Dedicated By
The Citizens of Hamden
To All
Prisoners Of War
And
Missing In Action
1972 — — Map (db m28698) HM
Camp Hadley was home to "Roosevelt's Tree Army." These young men, 17-25 years old, came from families of unemployed parents during the Great Depression. They joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and earned one dollar a day, up to 30 days . . . — — Map (db m243157) HM
Madison Youth Football dedicates this field to the memory of Faz Bagnoli
Coach Faz's intensity and passion for Tiger Football rubbed off on every one of his players and coaches. Believing that tackling, blocking and toughness were the keys to . . . — — Map (db m245125) HM
Five acres of wetlands that were filled with dredged materials during the 1950s have been restored to open marsh habitat. The project, which was completed on June 15, 2000, involved the restoration of salt marsh grasses and proper ground elevations . . . — — Map (db m245144) HM
Hammonasset Beach State Park is named for the spirit and memory of the Hammonassett Tribe who originally inhabited this land. Hammonassett means "where they dig holes". They fished, farmed, harvested shellfish, and hunted this entire area. . . . — — Map (db m245142) HM
This beautiful landmark, Samson Rock, is a boulder precariously placed on a large outcropping of glacial deposit. As with most wonders of the natural world, there are legends and stories to explain their presence. The local Native Americans of . . . — — Map (db m245132) HM
In this Town
On January 6, 1730 was born
Thomas Chittenden
Colonel in the French & Indian Wars
1756-1760
Member of the Connecticut General Assembly
1765-1772
First Governor of Vermont
1778-1789 1790-1797
Died Chittenden County, . . . — — Map (db m245126) HM
Antietam
To the memory of the soldiers of Madison.
Presented
By
Vincent Meigs Wilcox
New York City
Col. 132d Regt. Pa. Vols.
Born in Madison
October 17, 1828.
(right side)
Fredericksburg
1861 — 1865
Col. . . . — — Map (db m246232) WM
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