Farmington Canal, Plainville, Connecticut:(A special edition blue historical marker) Farmington Canal (1828-1848) The “Long Level” section was the single most important factor in growth of…
Weston UlbrichMarch 11, 2024
Noah Webster House, West Hartford, Connecticut: At 227 South Main Street is the birthplace of American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1853). The two and a half…
Weston UlbrichSeptember 5, 2023
Prisoners of the American Revolution, Milford, Connecticut: On New Years Day 1777, a British prison ship released 200 war prisoners ill with smallpox on the…
Weston UlbrichAugust 29, 2023
Elias Austin House, Durham, Connecticut: In 1743, Elias Austin* bought land from Robert Fairchild for 153 pounds and built a Colonial style house on Main…
Weston UlbrichAugust 29, 2023
East Haddam, Connecticut: Incorporated 1734 This land was part of an original purchase from the Indians in 1662 for 30 coats – about $100.…
Weston UlbrichAugust 22, 2023
Yantic Falls, Norwich, Connecticut: "Yantic Falls, known as Indian Leap, was a favorite encampment of the Mohegan Indians. In 1643, Uncas, Sachem of the Mohegans,…
Weston UlbrichAugust 20, 2023
Westport, Connecticut: "For nearly two hundred years after the first white settlement here in 1648, the area east of the Saugatuck River belonged to the…
Weston UlbrichApril 11, 2023
Westbrook, Connecticut: "This community was settled in 1648 as Pochong, an Indian word meaning at the confluence of two rivers, the Pochoug and the Menunketesuck,…
Weston UlbrichMarch 15, 2023
North Haven, Connecticut: "A part of Indian land bought in 1638 for New Haven, North Haven was incorporated in 1786. The center area was settled in…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 2, 2023
Bridgeport, Connecticut: “The Park City" "The area that is now Bridgeport was settled in the mid-17th century by farmers from the older towns of Stratford…
Weston UlbrichDecember 4, 2022
Old Saybrook, Connecticut: “SAY - BROOKE Founded November 1635. First English settlement on south shore of New England. Named for Viscount Say and Seale and…
Weston UlbrichMarch 14, 2022
Old Lyme, Connecticut: "As early as the 1640's settlers from Saybrook cleared and planted land on the east side of Connecticut River in what is…
Weston UlbrichMarch 4, 2022
Ansonia, Connecticut: "Here the first settlers came in 1654 and established a settlement called Uptown Derby. It is now part of the City of Ansonia,…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 28, 2022
Newington, Connecticut: "1636 - Newington valley used by Wethersfield settlers as a source for pipe staves, building materials and pasture lands. Pipestave Swamp, Cow Plain…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 18, 2022
New Hartford, Connecticut: "In 1732 the Connecticut General Assembly gave Hartford and Windsor permission to establish seven towns in the colony's Western Lands. New Hartford…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 11, 2022
Beacon Falls, Connecticut: "The lands of Beacon Falls first appear in history when Milford was settled in 1639. Northern boundary of Milford was Beacon Hill…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 5, 2022
Hamden, Connecticut: "Incorporated in 1786, this town was originally part of New Haven and was named for John Hampden, noted English statesman. In 1798, at…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 26, 2022
Oxford, Connecticut: "Originally part of Derby, Oxford was settled by people pushing inland from Derby, Stratford, and New Haven. Land was acquired in five purchases…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 22, 2022
Shelton, Connecticut: "1639 - Stratford area settled, with present-day Shelton as the northern part. 1717 - Northern settlers established Ripton parish. 1789 - Ripton separated…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 12, 2022
Danbury, Connecticut: "Eight families came from Norwalk in 1685 to settle this area which the Indians called Pahquioque. They built their first homes a half…
Weston UlbrichDecember 28, 2021
East Haven, Connecticut: This area, purchased by the Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton in 1638, was later known as East Farms. It was obtained…
Weston UlbrichNovember 20, 2021
Branford, Connecticut: "In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded 'eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in the English…
Weston UlbrichNovember 9, 2021
Norfolk, Connecticut: "In the heart of the Green Woods on what was later the Hartford-Albany Turnpike, Norfolk was settled in 1744 by Cornelius Brown of…
Weston UlbrichMay 24, 2021
Sprague, Connecticut: "This area on the Shetucket River was part of the land deeded in 1659 by Uncas, the Mohegan Indian sachem, to form the…
Weston UlbrichMay 22, 2021
Woodbridge, Connecticut: "The town consists of portions of the colonial jurisdictions of New Haven and Milford. Founded in 1738 as the Parish of Amity, it…
Weston UlbrichMay 1, 2021
West Haven, Connecticut: "West Farms (West Haven) recorded its first household in 1648. Part of the original New Haven Colony, West Farms became the separate…
Weston UlbrichApril 27, 2021
Derby, Connecticut: "In 1642 John Wakeman established the first trading post in the Naugatuck Valley at the confluence of the Naugatuck and Housatonic Rivers. Edward…
Weston UlbrichApril 22, 2021
Bethany, Connecticut: "In 1738 Amity Parish in New Haven and Milford, including most of present-day Woodbridge and Bethany, was incorporated by the General Assembly of…
Weston UlbrichApril 11, 2021
Wallingford, Connecticut: "This territory was purchased by the New Haven Colony in 1638 from Montowese, son of an Indian sachem. It was named after Wallingford,…
Weston UlbrichApril 10, 2021
Milford, Connecticut: "This area was settled in 1639 as an independent colony by a congregation of English Puritans led by their minister, the Reverend Peter…
Weston UlbrichApril 1, 2021
New Haven, Connecticut: "Settlement of Quinnipiac, afterward named New Haven, began on April 25, 1638 with the arrival of a large group from London by…
Weston UlbrichMarch 25, 2021
