George Washington Trail
A photographic history with cited opening dates, collection history and individually credited images. Historic views, later photographs and illustrations are dated separately. This is a selected collection, not an exhaustive inventory.

id: SGC102-S1
title: Town of Durham: George Washington Trail
url: https://www.townofdurhamct.org/subpages/george-washington-trail
summary: Municipal history of the 1775 and 1789 visits and seventeen markers erected in 1932.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: Town of Durham: George Washington Trail
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id: SGC102-S2
title: George Washington: published diary, 1789–1791
url: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/diaryofgeorgewas02wash/diaryofgeorgewas02wash.pdf
summary: Primary diary account of travel from New Haven through Wallingford and onward.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: George Washington: published diary, 1789–1791
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id: SGC102-S3
title: National Park Service: Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
url: https://www.nps.gov/waro/index.htm
summary: The separate national trail follows the allied armies’ 1781 march toward Yorktown.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: National Park Service: Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
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id: SGC-PHOTO-LINK-008
title: The Durham Green route marker in two photographs
kind: Photograph collections
date: Dates stated by source
institution: George Washington Trail
summary: Conrad Ward photographed the Washington route marker on June 8, 2024. Two views show the marker and its setting, with the inscription honoring Washington’s 1775 and 1789 journeys.
url: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=258419
credit: Conrad Ward / Historical Marker Database
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id: SGC-PHOTO-LINK-009
title: A surviving marker post on Fowler Mountain
kind: Photograph collections
date: Dates stated by source
institution: George Washington Trail
summary: A photographed walk along the ridge reaches the Washington Trail marker post. The account distinguishes the surviving post from its missing plaque.
url: https://blog.carolcrumpbryner.com/2015/05/06/set-in-stone-climbing-the-three-notches/
credit: Carol Crump Bryner, On Whirlwind Hill
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