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Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Cotton Art Series Tee - Putnam Camp Gate Rear Logo

Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Cotton Art Series Tee - Putnam Camp Gate Rear Logo

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The Putnam Camp gate across the back of a garment-dyed cotton tee, with Old Put riding on the chest. General Israel Putnam on horseback, sword raised, sits pocket-size on the front; the blockhouses, cannons and obelisk fill the back, drawn like an 1880s wood engraving.

The Original Art Series tee is the one with the picture on it: a small mark on the front, the full artwork across the back, on a heavyweight garment-dyed cotton that only gets softer. It is the tee people stop you about.

In the winter of 1778 to 1779 Major General Israel Putnam's division of the Continental Army went into winter quarters in Redding, placed to guard the Danbury supply depot and back up West Point. The main camp filled the valley with 116 log huts in a double row nearly a quarter mile long, twelve men to a hut. Short of bread, blankets and shoes, one private 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 and raised the granite monument the next summer. In the years that followed it built this entrance: two log blockhouses, a pair of surplus Civil War cannons and a plain wooden gate, arranged so that you look up the lane to the obelisk.

Heavyweight garment-dyed 6.1 oz ring-spun cotton with a relaxed, straight fit, a tubular knit body, double-needle hems and a tag-free neckline. See the table for sizes. Wash cold, tumble dry low.


  S M L XL 2XL
Width, in 18.25 20.25 22.00 24.00 26.00
Length, in 26.62 28.00 29.37 30.75 31.62
Sleeve length from center back, in 16.25 17.75 19.00 20.50 21.75
Size tolerance, in 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50

QUICK FACTS — REDDING ART SERIES COTTON TEE — PUTNAM CAMP GATE

Series: Redding Collection

Design: Putnam Camp Gate — the Putnam Camp gateway with its two log blockhouses, cannons and the granite obelisk beyond, drawn in the manner of an 1880s wood engraving; original Merlin Classics art, printed

Blank: Original Art Series tee, relaxed straight fit, tubular knit body

Fabric: heavyweight garment-dyed 6.1 oz ring-spun cotton

Print: Old Put pocket-size on the front chest, Putnam Camp Gate across the back

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

Made to order in the USA



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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

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We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

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 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.

Then the army itself arrived. Putnam chose the Redding hills for the winter of 1778–79 because from here a division could cover the Danbury stores, the Sound and the Hudson Highlands at once. New Hampshire men under Enoch Poor, Moses Hazen's Canadian regiment and two Connecticut brigades under Samuel Holden Parsons and Jedediah Huntington built their huts in three valleys. On December 30 the Connecticut line, unpaid and half fed, formed up to march on the legislature at Hartford; Putnam rode in and talked them back to their huts. In February a spy and a deserter were executed on the hill still called Gallows Hill. The division marched out in the spring, the chimneys fell, and the woods closed over the camp.

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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