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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1056_a-calf-pasture-primer_Norwalk-CT.html
Norwalk's first European settlers grazed their cattle on this property - hence the name "Calf Pasture." Among these earliest arrivals was Matthew Marvin, who moved to Norwalk in 1651 (the year the town was founded). His son, Matthew Jr., bought a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1053_st-pauls-church_Norwalk-CT.html
St. Paul's is one of the most beautiful stone, Gothic-Style, churches in the area. It's dramatic 13th century English charm, stained glass, excellent acoustics, and vintage E.M. Skinner organ create an atmosphere conducive to prayer, contemplation…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1052_st-pauls-historic-graveyard_Norwalk-CT.html
This historic graveyard is one of the oldest in Norwalk. It predates the Revolutionary War and is the resting place of several patriots of the American Revolution. It is situated on the original grant of land given to the professors of the Church …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1051_parish-of-st-pauls_Norwalk-CT.html
This Parish of St. Paul's was founded in 1737 by a missionary priest sent to the colonies from London. The present church building is the fifth erected on this site. The second structure was destroyed by the British on July 11, 1779, when General …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104R_norwalk_Norwalk-CT.html
First in recorded history came a navigator, Adriaen Block, in 1614 who called the Norwalk Islands "Archipelago." In 1640 Daniel Patrick from the New Haven Colony obtained a deed from local Indians conveying land on the west side of the Norwalk Riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104K_the-british-invasion_Norwalk-CT.html
In early July 1779, British General William Tryon led 2,600 British and Hessian soldiers on raids down the Connecticut shoreline to punish residents for their "ungenerous and wanton insurrection" against the Crown. They destroyed homes, provisions…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104I_roger-ludlow_Norwalk-CT.html
This stone, erected December, 1895,commemorates the purchase from the aboriginal inhabitants, madeFebruary 26, 1640-1, byRoger Ludlow,Deputy-Governor of the Colony of Connecticut,framer of its first Code of Laws, and Founder of Norwalk,of "All the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104G_flax-hill-monument_Norwalk-CT.html
This rockmarks the site of a battlebetween theAmericans and BritishJuly 12, 1779.This cannon ballwas foundon the battlefielda hundred yearsafter by theDaughtersof the AmericanRevolution1896
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104F_fitchs-point_Norwalk-CT.html
Here landedThe British Troopsunder the command ofGeneralsTryon and Garth,Saturday evening,July 10, 1779,preparatory to theBurning of Norwalk,July 11, 1779.—————Marked byNorwalk Chapter, D.A.R.1899.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104E_norwalk-founded_Norwalk-CT.html
The earliest homes wereplanted in the near vicinityof this stone.The first Meeting Housedirectly opposite. West.—————-Erected by the NorwalkChapter of the Daughtersof the AmericanRevolution.1895