Roxbury Veterans Monument

The Town of Roxbury

Honors Her Sons & Daughters

Who Served During Times of War

World War I

John Francis Acton • Percy Peck Beardsley • John Milo Bolt • John Grimes Butler • Robert Callahan • Harold Collins • John H. Collins • ...

Treaty of Fort McIntosh Boundary Line

In 1785, American Indian tribal leaders from the Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa, and Wyandot met with representatives sent by the United States Congress to sign the controversial Treaty of Fort McIntosh. The treaty surrendered control of Native American lands in southern ...

Bridges' Battery, Illinois Light Art'y.

2 Napoleons, 4 - 3" Rifles.

Bridges' Battery, Illinois Light Art'y.

2 Napoleons, 4 - 3" Rifles.

Capt. Cullen Bradley's Artillery Battalion

Wood's Division, Granger's Corps.

Nov. 23 to 25, 1863.

Capt. Lyman Bridges, Commanding.

1st Lieut. Morris D. Temple.

2nd Lieut. Lyman A. White.

2nd Lieut. Franklin Seborn.

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The ...

The Gilbert House

Circa 1790

Built by Benjamin Stebbins for his daughter Sarah and her husband Amos Baker, a Revolutionary War Hero, the first surgeon in Ridgefield and the originator of the famous Baker Apple.

Marker is on Main Street (Connecticut Route 35) 0.1 miles ...

Bennington Battle Monument

On August 16, 1777, British forces sent by Gen'l Burgoyne to seize supplies at Bennington were turned back by New Englanders under Gen'l John Stark and Vermont's Col. Seth Warner. This 306 foot commemorative shaft planned 100 years later, was ...

First Settlement of Waterbury

The first settlement of Waterbury was made on land in this region about 1675. The settlement was abandoned during King Philip’s War and was resumed around the present Waterbury green after 1677.

Marker is at the intersection of Highland Avenue and ...

Buckroe

In 1620, Frenchmen sent over to plant mulberry trees and grape vines settled here. The name was taken from a place in England.

Marker is at the intersection of East Pembroke Avenue and South 2nd Street, in the median on East ...

Olive Branch Christian Church

In 1833 the founders of Olive Branch Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) met for worship at Hill Pleasant Farm. By 1835, the congregation had built a brick church on land donated by Dr. Charles M. Hubbard and Mary Henley. During ...

Skirmish at Lawrenceburg

Saving the Courthouse

In November 1862, Confederate cavalrymen under Col. Albert G. Cooper camped near Lawrenceburg. He confined captured Federal soldiers and Union sympathizers in the jail here on the town square. Union Maj. Thomas C. Fitz Gibbon, commanding the post ...

Henry Aaron / Eau Claire Baseball

Henry Aaron

On June 14, 1952, Henry Aaron made his professional baseball debut here at Carson Park with the Eau Claire Bears. In his first two at-bats, he hit run-scoring singles in a game against St. Cloud, Minn.

Aaron is depicted ...