Pomfret - Pomfret, CT - Connecticut Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

The marker text reads as follows:

The Town began as the “Mashamoquet Purchase,” 15,100 acres bought 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 Yorkshire, England.

On Old Windham Road stands the Abington Meeting House (1751), the oldest Connecticut church in continuous use. The Pomfret Public Library is the successor to the oldest such society in eastern Connecticut and the Social Library of Abington (1813) is the oldest active library formed by women in America.

The Pomfret Manufacturing Company (1806) located along the Quinebaug River in a section that is now part of Putnam, was the first large cotton textile mill in the State. Among one-time residents of Pomfret are Israel Putnam, a major general in the Revolutionary War; James A. McNeill Whistler, artist; and Louise Chandler Moutlon and Robert Hillyer, poets.

This historical marker was erected in 1979 by the Town of Pomfret, the Pomfret Historical Society, and the Connecticut Historical Commission.

Marker Name: Pomfret Marker Type: Rural Roadside Date Dedicated / Placed: 1979 Additional Information: Not listed

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