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Redding Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Putnam Camp Gate

Redding Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Putnam Camp Gate

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Putnam Camp. Everything about this gateway was arranged to make you look up the lane. Two little log blockhouses, a pair of old cannons, a plain wooden gate - and beyond them, on its rocky rise, the granite obelisk the whole view was built to frame.

In the winter of 1778-79, Major General Israel Putnam's division of the Continental Army went into winter quarters here in Redding - New Hampshire troops under Enoch Poor, Moses Hazen's Canadian regiment, and two Connecticut brigades - placed to guard the Danbury supply depot and back up West Point. The main camp filled this valley: 116 log huts in a double row nearly a quarter mile long, twelve men to a hut, each crew building its own of timber and fieldstone while they shivered in tents until late December. Short of bread, blankets and shoes, one private who was there summed up the season as starving and freezing. Connecticut still calls it its Valley Forge.

The chimneys fell, the woods came back, and for a century the camp was nearly forgotten. In 1887 the state made the ground its first state park, raised the monument the next summer, and in the years that followed built this entrance - blockhouses to recall the frontier forts where young Putnam learned to soldier, surplus Civil War guns at the posts. The historian who planned it insisted it was to be not a pleasure park, but a memorial.

For anyone who has walked the loop at Putnam Park, or who calls Redding home.

The art is original and hand-drawn in the manner of an 1880s wood engraving - spruce-green ink, one cranberry bow on the gatepost - printed on a three-inch faceted crystal glass round, white-backed so the lines read crisply against a lit tree. The faceted edge catches light from every angle. Arrives boxed - your choice of white or gold gift box at checkout.

3-inch (76 mm) round crystal glass ornament · faceted gem-cut edge · white-backed print for crisp contrast · red ribbon hanger · your choice of white or gold gift box, included · free U.S. shipping.


QUICK FACTS — REDDING CONNECTICUT CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — PUTNAM CAMP GATE

Series: Crystal Glass Ornament

Art: Putnam Camp Gate, original Merlin Classics engraving printed to the glass

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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The same railroad brought Mark Twain. He stepped off a special train at West Redding on June 18, 1908, seventy-two years old, to see for the first time the Italian villa his biographer had talked him into building. He named it Stormfield, after the sea captain whose story had helped pay for it. That autumn he gave the town a library from his own shelves and charged his guests a dollar apiece to build it a home. His daughter Jean died at Stormfield on Christmas Eve 1909. Twain had come into the world with Halley's Comet in 1835 and said he expected to go out with it; he died at Stormfield on April 21, 1910, a day after the comet rounded the sun. The house burned in 1923. The library he founded is still open.

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.

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