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The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker .
A Great Jubilee Day, first held on Monday May 26, 1783, in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, commemorated the end of fighting in the American Revolutionary War. [ 1] This celebration included feasting, prayer, speeches, toasts, and two companies of the North Stratford militia performing maneuvers with cannon discharges and was one of ...
The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution. Durrie and Peck., vol. 1 to 1740s; Janick, Herbert F. A diverse people: Connecticut, 1914 to the present (Series in Connecticut history) (1975) 124pp; Jones, Mary Jeanne Anderson. Congregational Commonwealth: Connecticut, 1636-1662 1968
Other monuments in New Haven include the Broadway Civil War Memorial (1905) and the Yale Civil War Memorial at Woolsey Hall (1915). [31] The memorial in Woolsey Hall honors the dead of both the Union and the Confederation. [33] The only other memorial honoring a confederate soldier in Connecticut is the G. W. Smith stone in New London. [34]
Bank and Main Streets, from a 1911 postcard. Stamford, Connecticut was inhabited by Siwanoy Native Americans, prior to European colonization beginning in the mid-17th century. Stamford grew rapidly due to industrialization in the late-19th and early-20th century, and continued to grow rapidly throughout much of the mid-20th century.
1638 – Latin school founded. 1640 – Burying Ground established (approximate date). 1647 – Alse Young hanged for witchcraft. [2] 1662 – Hartford serving as capital of Connecticut Colony. [1] 1670 – Indian treaty signed. [3] 1701 – Hartford and New Haven designated joint capitals of Connecticut Colony.
Photochrom of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch ca. 1905. The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, honors the 4,000 Hartford citizens who served in the American Civil War, including 400 who died for the Union cause. It is notable as the first permanent memorial arch to be built in America.
Flags decorate the graves at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. The commemoration of the American Civil War is based on the memories of the Civil War that Americans have shaped according to their political, social and cultural circumstances and needs, starting with the Gettysburg Address and the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery in 1863.