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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C2O_israel-putnams-first-home_Brooklyn-CT.html
400 Feet due East of
this tablet
was the site of the first home of
Israel Putnam
in the Colony of Connecticut
In 1739, he bought 514 ½ acres of the adjacent land
from Governor Belcher at £5.0.0 per acre.
In 1740, here he came from S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BS9_abington-meeting-house_Pomfret-CT.html
Abington Meeting House
Erected 1751
Oldest Now Standing
In Connecticut
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BS8_abington-congregational-meeting-house_Pomfret-CT.html
Abington
Congregational Meeting House
Built 1751
Placed on
National Register of Historic Places
September 19, 1977
By United States Department
Of Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B2M_clark-memorial-chapel_Pomfret-CT.html
George Newhall Clarke
Memorial Chapel
Completed 1908
Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of The Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26KW_putnam-and-the-wolf_Pomfret-CT.html
Putnam and The Wolf
Following her tracks through one day and night in
the early snow of December 1742 to the Connecticut
River and back, the early settlers of this region here
discovered the den of the She Wolf that had for years
devast…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244X_putnam-wolf-den_Pomfret-CT.html
2 miles southwest
Putnam Wolf Den
Scene of famous
traditional exploit
of Israel Putnam
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDW_pomfret_Pomfret-CT.html
The Town began as the "Mashamoquet Purchase," 15,100 acres brought by twelve proprietors in 1686 from James Fitch of Norwich, who had acquired it from the Indian sachem, Owaneco. In 1713 the Town was incorporated and named for Pontefract in Yorksh…