{"product_id":"redding-tote-putnam-camp-gate","title":"Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Cotton Canvas Tote Bag - Putnam Camp Gate","description":"\u003c!-- Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Cotton Canvas Tote Bag - Putnam Camp Gate\n     Redding Canvas Tote — Putnam Camp Gate | redding-tote-putnam-camp-gate | Version: R4.3SP | Thu Nov 12 2026\n     Keywords: 25 | Tags: 15 | New build for the Redding collection; no separate GKP run, Putnam and park lanes reused from GKP 261-263\n     IP Clean | Content audit: PASS\n     Buttons: four-slot standard written in position (top: More Redding CT Items \/ More Connecticut Items; bottom: All Canvas Tote Bags \/ Shop All Towns \u0026 Items); theme splitter not used --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display:flex; flex-direction:column; gap:14px;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/redding-ct-retro-apparel-hats-home-goods\" style=\"display:block; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; white-space:nowrap; padding:12px 16px; border:1px solid #000000; border-radius:0; background:#B3B3B3; color:#0B0B0B;\"\u003eMore Redding CT Items\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/connecticut-items\" style=\"display:block; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; white-space:nowrap; padding:12px 16px; border:1px solid #000000; border-radius:0; background:#8EC9F2; color:#0B0B0B;\"\u003eMore Connecticut Items\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"hook\" style=\"scroll-margin-top:120px\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Putnam Camp gate on a canvas tote, for anyone who has walked the loop at the park.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two blockhouses, two cannons and the obelisk up the lane, drawn like an 1880s wood engraving and printed on heavy natural cotton canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tote is the Redding piece that gets used daily: groceries, books, the farmers' market on Saturday. It is flat to mail, so it is also the simplest Redding gift to send to someone out of state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDurable tote in heavy 12 oz (407 g\/m²) 100% cotton canvas, one size at 15 by 16 inches, with 20-inch self-fabric handles for shoulder carry and a sewn-in label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mc-facts-box\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"quick-facts\" class=\"mc-travel-title\" style=\"scroll-margin-top:120px\"\u003eQUICK FACTS — REDDING CANVAS TOTE — PUTNAM CAMP GATE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mc-fact\"\u003eSeries: Redding Collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mc-fact\"\u003eDesign: 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 in spruce-green ink with one cranberry bow on the gatepost; original Merlin Classics art, printed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mc-fact\"\u003eBlank: cotton canvas tote, 15\" × 16\", 20\" self-fabric handles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mc-fact\"\u003eFabric: heavy 12 oz (407 g\/m²) 100% cotton canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mc-fact\"\u003eMade to order in the USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display:flex; 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