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March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Plainfield Pike

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bordered on both sides by stone walls about 50 feet apart for most of the way. As of 2002, the walls were clearly visible at some times of the year, although overgrown in places, but difficult to see in the summer. The only concentration of houses as of 2002 was of 18th- and 19th-century houses in the
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The area listed is the roadway owned by the Connecticut State Department of Transportation, and not the adjacent properties. In 1781, the roadway was poor, at least to the east of the hamlet of Plainfield just east of the listed district, and it caused difficulty for the artillery and baggage trains
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at the time), which was mentioned in multiple French accounts of the marches and which is also NRHP-listed. The segment includes views of farm fields and other countryside suggestive of how the land would have appeared in 1781 and 1782 for the troops marching through, including views west to ridges
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Although it is now a paved state highway, the road retains its narrow, hilly, winding character, and for most of its length, the characteristic borders of stone walls remain in place. This is the longest continuous portion of the route to survive with these physical attributes intact. This is also
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It is a linear historic district consisting of a portion of Connecticut Route 14A, locally known as Plainfield Pike, which is level in the eastern part but generally hilly with curves. Along the route is open land of pasture and cornfields, wooded areas, and streams, including Ekonk Brook. It is
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in Rhode Island. Frenchman Clermont-Crevecoeur's journal recorded: "very bad roads. The artillery and the supply wagons arrived very late" at the Plainfield camp. Von Closen agreed, "The roads were still very bad", as did du Bourg: "The roads still quite bad, many stragglers".
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There are multiple other properties associated with Rochambeau's route that were also considered for listing on the National Register in a 2001 study.
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Accompanying three photos, exterior, from 2001 (see map captions page 12 of text document)
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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the only portion of the route that still offers repeated vistas of distant ridges (
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Connecticut
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Historic places on the Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
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valley. According to the NRHP nomination for the district:
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making their way to Plainfield from their second camp near
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List of historic sites preserved along Rochambeau's route
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Buildings and structures in Windham County, Connecticut
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which forms a portion of the historic march route of
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Plainfield Pike is located in Connecticut
March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Plainfield Pike is located in the United States
Plainfield, Connecticut
41°40′54″N 71°51′50″W / 41.68167°N 71.86389°W / 41.68167; -71.86389
MPS
Rochambeau's Army in Connecticut, 1780-1782 MPS
03000312
Plainfield
Sterling, Connecticut
Comte de Rochambeau
National Register of Historic Places

Dorrance Inn
Sterling Hill Historic District
Dorrance Inn
Voluntown
Quinebaug River
Photographs 3 and 4
Waterman's Tavern
Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
List of historic sites preserved along Rochambeau's route


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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