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Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Scented Candle - The Conservation Oak

Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Scented Candle - The Conservation Oak

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The Conservation Oak on a soy candle, for the town that grew its forest back. An old oak with a ribbon round the trunk, drawn like an 1880s wood engraving, on an 11 oz soy candle in White Tea and Fig or Ocean Mist and Moss.

The candle is the Redding piece for the house: a shelf, a mantel or a desk, and the easy host gift from town. It comes in two scents, White Tea and Fig or Ocean Mist and Moss, and pairs with the ornament of the same design.

This was farm country first: pastured hillsides, stone walls, a limekiln at the north end and charcoal burners at the south. When the Erie Canal opened the West the farmers followed it, and the forest crept back over the walls they left behind. By the 1930s Redding was woods again.

Keeping it that way was the town's own doing. In 1887 residents talked the state into creating its first state park at General Putnam's winter camp. In 1965 they founded a land trust, and when the Great Ledge above Devil's Den went on the market in 1988 the whole town chipped in to buy it. Today nearly forty percent of Redding is protected land, with sixty miles of trails cleared each year by volunteers.

Soy candle, 11 oz, 100 percent soybean wax, with double cotton-cored wicks and roughly 65 hours of burn, in White Tea and Fig or Ocean Mist and Moss. Stay in the room while it is lit, and keep it away from drafts and curtains.


QUICK FACTS — REDDING SCENTED CANDLE — THE CONSERVATION OAK

Series: Redding Collection

Design: The Conservation Oak — an old oak with spreading roots and a ribbon tied round the trunk, drawn in the manner of an 1880s wood engraving; original Merlin Classics art, printed

Blank: 11 oz soy candle, 100% soybean wax, double cotton-cored wicks, about 65 hours burn

Scents: White Tea and Fig, or Ocean Mist and Moss

Safety: never leave a lit candle unattended; keep away from drafts and fabrics

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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Why is Redding called Connecticut's Valley Forge? Because in the winter of 1778–79 Major General Israel Putnam quartered a division of the Continental Army here — about three thousand men in three camps of log huts — short of bread, blankets and shoes. Joseph Plumb Martin, a Connecticut private who wintered in Redding, remembered the season as one of starving and freezing. The main camp is now Putnam Memorial State Park.

The town began as a gap on the map. The country between Fairfield and Danbury was common land when John Read, a Fairfield-born lawyer, settled a tract he called Lonetown; his deed from the sachem Chickens is dated 1714. Farms and mills gathered around it, the settlement became a parish of Fairfield in 1729, and in 1767 it was incorporated as a town of fewer than a thousand people and named for Read. The spelling settled into Redding, the way it had always been said.

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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