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Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Cotton Art Series Tee

Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Cotton Art Series Tee

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The Redding art series tee, for the town that was Connecticut's Valley Forge. A heavyweight garment-dyed cotton tee with the Redding logo small on the front and the old oak from the Redding mark printed large across the back.

The Original Art Series tee is the one with the picture on it: logo small 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.

The Original Art Series tee is made from soft, heavyweight garment-dyed 6.1 oz ring-spun U.S. cotton, with a relaxed, straight silhouette, a tubular knit body, double-needle hems and a smooth, tag-free neckline. It feels broken in from day one and is built to last.

In the winter of 1778 to 1779 General Israel Putnam quartered three brigades of the Continental Army in the Redding hills, close enough to watch the Sound and the Hudson Highlands at once. The men built log huts, went hungry, mutinied once and were talked out of it by Putnam himself; the encampment has been called Connecticut's Valley Forge, and the site is now Putnam Memorial State Park, the state's first.

Redding began as the Lonetown tract John Read bought in 1714 and was incorporated as a town in 1767. Mark Twain spent his last years at Stormfield here, and nearly forty percent of the town is now protected land: hills, stone walls, woods and farms. The old oak on the Redding mark stands for that.


  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 CT ART SERIES COTTON TEE

Town: Redding, Connecticut

Founded: Lonetown purchase 1714; incorporated 1767

Known for: Putnam's winter encampment, 1778–79, "Connecticut's Valley Forge"; Putnam Memorial State Park; Mark Twain's Stormfield

Art: The old oak of the Redding mark, printed across the back

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

Fabric: Heavyweight garment-dyed 6.1 oz ring-spun U.S. cotton

Print: Town logo front, original art back

Details: Double-needle hems, tag-free neckline

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

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How does your sizing work?

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.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

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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How do I care for my item?

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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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.

The nineteenth century was farms, limekilns and one factory. In 1818 Benjamin Gilbert began weaving horsehair sieves in his cellar at Georgetown, on the town's southwest corner. The firm that became Gilbert & Bennett moved from hair to wire, and when the Civil War cut off its Southern customers it painted its surplus wire cloth and sold it for windows — the firm is credited with the first woven-wire insect screening. The railroad came through in 1852, with stations at West Redding, Topstone and Georgetown. The wire mill ran until the end of the twentieth century.

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.

Redding Connecticut Merlin Classics Retro Vintage Logo Featuring an Old Oak and Connecticut Est. 1636