Vernon

Tolland County · dedicated 1981 · location approximate

VERNON (Continued from other side) Between 1892 and 1904 cloth from Rockville's mills achieved national and international recognition, winning awards in 1892 from the World's Columbian Exposition, at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and being chosen for the inaugural suits of Presidents William McKinley in 1897 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. Central Park, the site of this plaque, was laid out in 1878 and marked the commercial and governmental center of the Town. The Memorial Building was erected in 1889 and dedicated to the 336 soldiers of Vernon who gave their lives in the Civil War, 1861-1865. The years following the Second World War have brought residential expansion into previously rural Vernon, the permanent closing of the woolen mills in 1952, and the consolidation of the city and town governments into the Town of Vernon on April 1, 1965.

Only the reverse face is photographed. It is the "(Continued from other side)" face, so the front face is outstanding.

Text transcribed from the cast town markers erected under Connecticut's town historical marker program in the 1970s and early 1980s. Presented as a historical record.

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