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 Coventry Historical Marker - Coventry, CT Posted by:  neoc1
N 41° 46.784 W 072° 18.668
18T E 723461 N 4628815
The Coventry Historical Marker is a blue and white double sided marker which is located in front of the Town Hall at 1712 Main Street, Coventry, CT.
Waymark Code: WM14TDK
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2021
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Coventry Historical Marker is a blue and white double sided marker. On the front side is inscribed with the early history of Coventry, CT. The back side list the names and accomplishments of 10 former residents of Suffield.
The historical marker is inscribed:
{Coat of Arms of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
COVENTRY
This land was known to the Indians as WONGGUM-
BAUG-"crooked pond" from the curved shape of
the large body of water within the present
town limits. It was set off in 1706 to be
divided by deedholders from the legatees of
Joshua, third son of the Mohegan sachem, Uncas,
The original town layout is a town-planning
classic. The area was settled in 1709, named
in 1711 from the city of Coventry in England,
and incorporated the following year.
Here is the birthplace of the martyred patriot
Captain Nathan Hale (Yale College 1773),
whose immortal last words on the British
gallows were: "I only regret that I have but
one life to lose for my country.
Jeremiah Ripley, Continental Commissary.,
maintained a military provisioning depot at
his homestead on Ripley Hill during the
Revolutionary War. The Town was an important
stop-over on the great Hartford-Boston turn-
pike road opened in 1798. and starting point
of the Windham Turnpike to Norwich (1820).
(Continued on other side)
{Coat of Arms of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
COVENTRY
(Continued from other side)
Here were the homes of Joseph Meacham, pastor;
John Potwine, silversmith; Daniel Burnap,
clockmaker; Joseph Badger, miniaturist-
portraitist, Jesse Root, jurist: Lorenzo Dow,
revivalist preacher; John Turner, glass
merchant and Henry Mason, cartridge maker.
Coventry was noted for early manufactures of
paper, wool, silk, cotton, woven hats,
commemorative glass flasks and inkwells,
ammunition, wagons, and cardboard boxes.
From the time of the Civil War until the onset
of the Great Depression in 1929, the mills
of South Coventry prospered. So too did the
North Parish family farms. The trolley line
(1909) connecting at Willimantic to Norwich and
beyond, was the excursionist's delight for
more than a decade before the automobile era.
Nationally-known stars of vaudeville and
early radio founded the Lakes Actors Colony
in the late 1920's, among them the Loesers,
Fitzgeralds, Hinkles, MacLallans, Kamplains,
Keenes, and many others in these professions.
Erected by the Town of Coventry
The Coventry Historical Society
and the Connecticut Historical Commission
1980
Marker Name: Coventry Historical Marker
Marker Type: Urban
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1/1/1980
Additional Information: Not listed
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