Winter Quarters of Putnam’s Division

Front of Monument:

Erected to commemorate

the Winter Quarters of

Putnam’s Division of the

Continental Army.

Nov. 7th 1778.

May 25th 1779.

Right of Monument:

Putnam

McDougal

Poor

Parsons

Huntington

Back of Monument:

The men of ‘76

who suffered here,

to preserve forever their

Memory

The State of Connecticut

has erected this monument

A.D. 1888

Left of Monument:

The World

is full of their praises.

Posterity

stands astonished at their

Deeds.

Marker can be reached from Pocahontas Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Credits and Sources:

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