Drum Hill DAR will be having its monthly chapter meeting on Thursday, Jan. 16. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization, dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history and historical properties, and securing America's future through better education for […]
The Wilton Land Conservation Trust, in partnership with the Drum Hill Chapter NSDAR, invites the community to celebrate our Nation's Independence by stewarding the Comstock Hill Cemetery. This cemetery is the final resting grounds for six Revolutionary War Patriots. In honor of Independence Day 2020, and the 246th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War, the […]
The Wilton Land Conservation Trust, in partnership with the Drum Hill Chapter NSDAR, invites the community to help steward the Comstock Hill Cemetery. This cemetery is the final resting grounds for six Revolutionary War Patriots. This workday will focus on the trail that winds through the cemetery, leaf removal, general brush maintenance, and hand-pulling of […]
Sunday, April 18, 2021, from 1:30-3 pm, please join members of Drum Hill at Comstock Hill Cemetery located at the bottom of North Signal Hill. Comstock Hill Cemetery was given to the DAR and we, in turn, turned it over to the Wilton Land Conservation Trust. We will spruce the cemetery up and then place […]
Monday, April 19, at 6:30 pm a Proclamation will be read by our First Selectwoman, Lynne Vanderslice. We will convene at Hillside Cemetery with the American Legion Post 86 for our Patriots’ Day Celebration. There will be opening remarks on the significance of Patriots’ Day; an Honor Guard from American Legion Post, James B. Whipple […]
Have you been interested in your ancestry? It's time to get started. Meet one-on-one with a Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) lineage research specialist at Wilton Library during a 45-minute private session on Saturday, Jan. 7, between 10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. The DAR researchers are specialists in lineage research back to the late […]
Please join Wilton Library for a special Patriots’ Day program where history will come alive! Historian and Revolutionary War Reenactor Col. Larry A. Maxwell will tell the story of how the Continental Army and local patriots managed to get around more than 2,000 Crown Forces in Wilton to oppose that invading force at Compo Beach […]
Join Wilton Library for a special presentation on the Weekend the British Burned Danbury given by the Danbury-based host of the popular podcast on Connecticut history, Mike Allen. In 1777, early in the Revolutionary War, a weekend military mission into inland Connecticut was supposed to be a seminal military victory for the British in their […]
