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2 9> ! 775> to ta ke command of the Continental Army. A 

 bronze tablet has been placed upon the tree by the Connecti- 

 cut Society of Sons of the American Revolution. This tab- 

 let was unveiled on the 2Qth of June, 1893. See year book 

 of the Society for 1895-6. 



PUTNAM PARK. 



This fine park at Redding, Conn., is kept by the State in 

 commemoration of General Israel Putnam. It covers the en- 

 tire camp of the forces under his command encamped in Red- 

 ding during the winter of 1777-8. 



THE GROTON MONUMENT. 



As the inscription reads : " This Monument was erected 

 under the patronage of the State of Connecticut, A. D. 1830, 

 in memory of the Brave Patriots who fell in the massacre at 

 Fort Griswold near this spot on the 6th of September, 1781." 

 The monument stands on Groton Heights, opposite New 

 London, Conn., and is about one hundred and fifty feet high. 

 The story of the historic event it commemorates cannot be 

 told within the present limits. It is fully described in various 

 histories of the American Revolution, and described in detail 

 in " The Battle of Groton Heights," edited by Charles Allyn 

 of New London in 1882. 



THE NATHAN HALE SCHOOLHOUSE AT NEW LONDON. 



This building has recently been purchased by the Connec- 

 ticut Society of Sons of the American Revolution, with the 

 co-operation of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 

 and is now being restored to its original condition and located 

 on prominent public ground in New London. In this build- 

 ing Nathan Hale taught school for more than a year, leaving 

 his school to join the army, at the time of the Lexington 

 alarm. After this short service he returned to New London, 

 and in July, 1775, resigned his position as teacher and en- 

 listed in the Continental Army, in the records of which his 

 name stands as a shining example of self-sacrificing patri- 

 otism. Connecticut is proud of this son of her soil, and his 



