Sunday, September 18, 2011

Missing historic sign in Derby is replaced

This is the recently replaced historic designation sign on Route 34 in Derby. 
Patricia Villers / Register

By Patricia Villers
Register Staff
DERBY — An historic designation sign on Route 34 at the corner of Sentinel Hill Road, which had been missing for almost a year, has been replaced.
The sign says that French troops encamped on Sentinel Hill in June 1781 as they marched through the Valley on their way to the Battle of Yorktown (Va.) during the Revolutionary War.
They were under the command of Duc de Lauzun and had marched through Connecticut after leaving from Newport, R.I.

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