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Connecticut Battlefield Tours!
Summer 2012
Visit three battlefields. Hear a Connecticut historian tell these dramatic stories of honor, courage, betrayal and dishonor.
Explore the sites where forgotten heroes fell to win our liberty and establish our infant republic.
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The Battlefield of Ridgefield!
First Stop
Visit The Keeler Tavern, where a British cannonball still remains lodged in the beam of the house. Visit site of the barricade, where the American militia men defied the British army. Listen to a lecture describing the battle in the Church which replaced the one that the British burned.
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Fort Black Rock on
New Haven HarborSecond Stop
Hear the account of the British invasions of New Haven, Fairfield and Norwalk.
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Connecticut's Alamo!
Ft. Griswold, GrotonThird Stop
Here, outnumbered Connecticut farmers and their sons fought to the death to protect their homeland in the greatest display of raw courage in Connecticut history. Walk the grounds and hear the story of this amazing battle!
Schedule a Private Tour!
Call us to design your own Connecticut History Tour! We will bring Connecticut History alive for you, your friends, your family!
"...Connecticut is one very great miracle to me."
"In the laws of Connecticut we find the germ and gradual development of that township independence which is the life and mainspring of American liberty."
- Alexis de Toqueville, after visiting Connnecticut in 1831.
Bristol, CT 06010
Email: tdberrill@netscape.com | Phone: 860.877.1547
Institute of Connecticut History