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Chain of Signal Beacons

Large fires, cannon and flags were used to signal alarms during the Revolutionary War. The fires were called beacons and were used to assemble militia, indicate the approach direction of the enemy and to direct the movements of military forces.

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Signal Beacon and the “Old Sow”

1776

Here in the time of the American Revolution stood the Signal Beacon and by its side the cannon known as the “Old Sow” which in time of danger and invasion summoned the patriotic “Minute Men” of this vicinity to the ...

Signal Beacon #11

During the Revolutionary War, signal beacon #11 was located on Long Hill Road in the vicinity of John Cooper's windmill near this site and served to summon local militia in time of danger and invasion.

Marker is at the intersection of ...