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The Connecticut Freedom Trail was authorized in 1995 by an act of the Connecticut General Assembly. Farmington sites on the trail include Amistad sites and Underground Railroad safe houses where fugitive slaves were hidden by abolitionists.
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Shows location of Rochambeau’s Army encampment in Farmington, Conn . on its return march from Yorktown, Virginia. — In Amerique Campague 1782: …
With the American victory at Saratoga, France joined the war against the British. Twice during the war, the commander of the French army, the Comte de Rochambeau, passed through Farmington with his troops. One block up Main Street from “Oldgate” is a sign marking the route of Rochambeau’s two marches through the town.
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