In the 1970s and early 1980s every Connecticut town received a cast aluminum marker telling its own story, written town by town under a state program carried out with the Connecticut Historical Commission. The Commission is long gone and the state kept no file of the texts, so these pages are transcriptions taken directly from the plates themselves. One hundred sixty-five of the 169 town markers now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each placing its town's story on georeferenced maps from the eras the story spans. These pages carry the text as cast, not a survey of what stands today.
165marker pages live
82,000+historical map sheets
Connecticut Historical Commission town marker program (1970-1983)credited on every page
Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each — click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 165 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Connecticut, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
Wethersfield · near where a family farmed in the 1600s · "The Most Auncient Towne in Connecticut," settled overland from Massachusetts Bay in 1633
A marker stops being a roadside plaque and becomes a destination with a personal reason to visit. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Connecticut family sees Connecticut’s).
Browsing all 165 markers by county.
Scan: the Groton marker page