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The Connecticut Company or Connecticut Land Company (est. 1795) was a post-colonial land speculation company formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the eastern parts of the newly chartered Connecticut Western Reserve of the former "Ohio Country" [1] and a prized-part of the Northwest Territory)—a post ...
In 2013, the headquarters building was sold to the town of Lexington, [18] with the offices of the Sovereign Grand Commander moving into the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library located next door. In December 2023, Past Sovereign Grand Commander, David Glattly criticized the Supreme Council over internal bickering and financial mismanagement ...
New Canaan Land Trust: New Canaan: Fairfield Website: Northern Connecticut Land Trust: Somers: Tolland website: Roxbury Land Trust: Roxbury: Litchfield website, includes Mine Hills Preserve: Waterford Land Trust: Waterford: New London website: Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy: Kent: Litchfield Regional website: Wintonbury Land Trust ...
Connecticut's land claims in the Western United States. The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms of its charter by King Charles II. [1]
Fifteen years ago, the Museum acquired part of its original property from the town of Vernon. Once owned by the GAR, the property was annexed by the town and used as a jail cell. The Memorial Hall is also used for meetings by the Connecticut Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS).
The Connecticut Land Company was formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve, part of the Old Northwest Territory in present-day Ohio. Pages in category "Connecticut Land Company"
Built c. 1763, a two-and-a-half-story house which hosted officers of French commander Rochambeau's troops in 1781 en route to the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia. It also an example of traditional 18th-century New England architecture, and retains some details from that time period.
Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number. The numbers of NRHP listings in each county are documented by tables in each of the individual county list-articles.