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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPJ_darien_Darien-CT.html
Darien
Originally part of Stamford, this area became Middlesex Parish in 1737. It was incorporated as the Town of Darien in 1820. Settlement had begun about 1700 when the first roads were cut "in the woods." In 1703 a school district wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GWE_in-memory-of-lt-rodney-l-stokes-and-sgt-julius-g-skyberg_Trumbull-CT.html
In Memory of Lt. Rodney L. Stokes of Liberty, Mississippi, and Sgt. Julius G. Skyberg of DeSmet, South Dakota Who Lost Their Lives While Fulfilling Their Duties When Their Airplane Crashed on This Spot on Sunday January 23, 1944. Placed Here by An…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GW5_tashua-hills_Trumbull-CT.html
Tashua Hills
608 Feet
Above Sea Level
Highest Elevation
On the East Coast
Trumbull Parks Commission
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DSU_john-w-leahy_Danbury-CT.html
John W. Leahy1895 - 1975A showman whose genuine love and understandingof people endeared him to the hearts of young andold alike. By his personal warmth, imagination, anddrive, he built the Danbury State Fair into anationally known attraction.Plac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DST_248-main-street_Danbury-CT.html
About This Building248 Main Street This handsome Victorian Romanesque building was built as the new headquarters for the Danbury National Bank in 1887. The architect, Warren Biggs of Bridgeport, used stone from Massachusetts. The building is const…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DSR_danbury-disasters_Danbury-CT.html
When the Kohanza Reservoir Dam gave way on the night of February 20, 1869, sixty acres of water, ice, lumber and debris roared down north Main Street. It took shops, homes, bridges and factories with it and several lives were lost. A combination …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DSP_wooster-square_Danbury-CT.html
The intersection of Main Street with White and Elm Streets, known as Wooster Square became an increasingly important section of town with the completion of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot on Main Street in 1851.As the main route through Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DLC_historic-site_Danbury-CT.html
Historic SiteDanbury's First Episcopal Church occupied this site from 1763 until 1884. In 1777, British troops, led by General Tryon, took military stores from the church and burned them in the nearby street, but spared the edifice. Three public s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DLA_washington-rochambeau-revolutionary-route_Danbury-CT.html
French General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War for Independence. After wintering in Newport, Rochambeau's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DL8_danbury-during-the-revolutionary-war_Danbury-CT.html
On April 26, 1777, 2,000 British soldiers, under the command of General Tryon, marched into Danbury. The town was a supply depot for military stores. A Corps of Artificers; skilled craftsmen, such as blacksmiths, were formed into special military …