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The Revolution came up the road. In 1775 some hundred Redding men marched north under Captain Zalmon Read in the new 5th Connecticut Regiment. On the morning of April 26, 1777, the war came to them instead: a British and Loyalist column under William Tryon, landed at Compo the evening before and bound for the supply depot at Danbury, halted on Redding Ridge in front of the Anglican church. The militia gathered behind it. By that afternoon Generals Silliman, Wooster and Arnold were in Redding with the Fairfield County men, and the next day they caught the column at Ridgefield. Redding's part in that week was the militia's part: neighbors with muskets, turned out on a morning's notice.
On April 26, 1777, a British column bound for the Danbury supply depot halted on Redding Ridge; some 100 Redding men had already marched north in 1775 under Captain Zalmon Read.
Why People Visit Redding
People come to Redding for what is not here: no highway, no strip, no crowd. They come for a Revolutionary War camp you can walk alone on a winter morning, for sixty miles of trails, and for the hills that drew Mark Twain, Charles Ives and Edward Steichen out of New York.
