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March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Reservoir Road

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NewtownCT ReservoirRoad RochambeauRoute
NewtownCT ReservoirRoad RochambeauRoute

March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Reservoir Road is a historic site in Newtown, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.It is along the march route taken by French commander Rochambeau's troops in 1781. The listed site is less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) in area, and comprises a section of Reservoir Road running between stone walls, which is believed to be the roadway taken by Rochambeau's army. It is an undeveloped property.It's one of multiple properties whose possible listing on the National Register was covered in a 2001 MPS study.

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Reservoir Road 10
06470 (Newtown)
Connecticut, United States
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Newtown Borough Historic District
Newtown Borough Historic District

The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown within the town of Newtown in Fairfield County, Connecticut. There is a local historic district, and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The National Register district includes just a small part of the current borough, but about half of the original borough as it was first incorporated in 1824.The local historic district was smaller, but the Ram's Pasture and another property were added in 2009. The district has a governance structure.The district was designated as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996. The district area has buildings dating back from 1780. The district includes the separately NRHP-listed Glover House and Caleb Baldwin Tavern. In 1996, the district included 225 contributing buildings, 2 other contributing structures, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects. The one contributing site in the district is the "Ram's Pasture", a meadow that was common land.Significant properties in the district include: Glover House Caleb Baldwin Tavern: The Baldwin Tavern is along the march route taken by French commander Rochambeau's troops in 1781 en route to Yorktown, Virginia and/or in 1782 during their return. It was built c. 1763 and is a two-and-a-half-story house. It housed some of the army's officers in June 1781, en route to the Siege of Yorktown. It also an example of traditional 18th-century New England architecture, and retains some details from that time period. 17 Main Street, home of Arthur J. Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee newspaper which began in 1877 (see accompanying photo #9): 15–16  Liberty Pole/Flagpole: 16  Soldiers and Sailors Monument Edmond Town Hall Matthew Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, a museum of the Newtown Historical Society (see photo #1, left): 17  Gen. Daniel Baldwin House, 38 Main Street, a formal Georgian style building that contrasts to most of the other architecture (see photo #4): 17  Cyrenius H. Booth LibraryIn 2003, citizen protests and a petition of 700 residents led to re-siting of a planned communications tower so that it would not be visible from the historic district.