Phillipsburgh

During the Revolutionary War, Mill owned by patriots Henry Wisner and Moses Phillips produced gunpowder for Washington’s Army here.

Marker is on East Main Street (County Route 67) 0.1 miles east of Philipsburg Rd, on the right when traveling east.

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"Sant Peter's Kierch"

Cornerstone laid July 13, 1767, and dedicated in 1769 by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, patriarch of American Lutheranism. Church erected on ground provided by George Fisher, the founder of Middletown, for annual rental of "one grain of wheat."

Marker is at the ...

Fort Wooster Park

The Quinnipiac Tribe

Fort Wooster Park

Sacred grounds of the Quinnipiac Indians and one of the earliest reservations in the New World

Battle site of the American patriots against the British forces during the invasion of New Haven on July 5, ...

Camp George Gordon Meade

Covering three square miles, the former Camp Meade was situated a half mile to the northwest. Named for famed Civil War General, it was opened during the Spanish-American War and visited by President William McKinley on August 27, 1898.

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German Evangelical Church / Pike Heritage Foundation Museum

Side A: German Evangelical Church

Construction of Waverly's third church, built with locally produced brick, began in 1859 and was completed in 1860. The original deed, recorded on October 31, 1859, listed the value of the lot as $180. With the ...

Birdsey’s Plain Methodist Church

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Stepney

1839

Birdsey’s Plain

Methodist Church

(Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel)

This Greek Revival-style church, one of the “twin” churches on the Stepney Green, was built by Hanford Hull. This was the second Methodist ...

Discovery of Copper

In August, 1843, a prospector named Lemmons, in fruitless search of gold along a branch of Potato Creek not far to the northeast, found a substance which turned out, to his disappointment, to be red oxide of copper. He abandoned ...

Carillon Outpost

Major outpost on Lake George, a small palisaded log fort, built in 1756 to defend Fort Carillon from British attack, & named Camp De Contrecoeur, stood in this vicinity.

Marker is on Baldwin Road just from Delano Road, on the right ...

A Quinnipiac Indian

A Quinnipiac Indian

family walks to the

harbor to meet the English

newcomers – April 24, 1638

as their way of life

changes forever

Montowese • Sawseunek • Momaugin • Sugcogisin • Quesaquaush • Carroughood • Weesaucuck • Shaumpisuh

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In Memory of Captain Charles ...

Birdsey’s Plain / Stepney Cemetery

Stepney

1794

Birdsey’s Plain /

Stepney Cemetery

Noah and James Burr, Jr. donated this land for a burial ground. Over 1,400 men, women & children are interred including many of the areas first settlers. Veterans include: Revolutionary War, War ...