Drum Hill Daughters of the American Revolution is sponsoring clean-up of Comstock Cemetery on Ridgefield Rd./Rte 33. The Comstock Cemetery is located behind a hill on the west side of Ridgefield Rd., just south of Signal Hill Rd. North. There rest more than 60 forefathers of Wilton and their family members. It was opened during […]
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 […]
Drum Hill Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is hosting a free online event on Thursday, Jan 21, at 12:45 p.m. Please join us for a wonderful afternoon travelling back in time with an online presentation of "A Revolution of Her Own!", the inspirational story of America’s first female soldier Deborah Sampson, featuring History At Play, LLC […]
It is May 2, 1775, and Rachel Revere has only heard from her beloved husband Paul once since his legendary midnight ride on the 18th of April. Still isolated from one another due to the Siege of Boston, Rachel desperately tries to create a plan to safely take her children: six-step children from Paul’s first […]
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., come "Get Colonial" with DAR! You may see DAR members around town in colonial dress handing out flags. Feel free to put on your colonial dress to support our revolutionary patriots! Wilton Garden Club will be celebrating Daffodil Festival and we have partnered with them, so you might […]
At 12 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 18, the Capt. David Hawley Society Children of the American Revolution, Drum Hill Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Wilton Congregational Church will sponsor a Wreaths Across America wreath-laying ceremony at historic Sharp Hill Cemetery at the corner of Sharp Hill Rd. and Route 7/Danbury Rd., in Wilton. […]
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, […]
