Marlborough CT. Home of the MarlboroughTavern. It’s one of the oldest inns in the USA. We’ve all heard about«location, location, location» and the Marlborough Inn had the distinction of being located at the intersection of two very main roads. I did some reading on the Inn and found that it contained a 2 foot by 4 foot room that was used to store prisoners while their transporting guards took a break from the road. Want more? Well Marlboro’s textile heritage abruptly ended in 1907 when its last remaining mill burned down. Still want more? Here’s a cool one. In 1882 a daughter of Marlboro named Mary Hall became the first female attorney to be admitted to practice law in Connecticut. This is a two-sided marker from the CT Historical Commission, with the familiar white lettering on a blue background. It has the same inscription on both sides.. It’s located on a strip of grass in front of Town Hall. The marker dates to 1978 and is generally pretty good shape. The white lettering and blue background are bright and in good condition. I saw some evidence of the blue paint peeling and chipping, more so on the side facing Town Hall. The marker’s full inscription reads: The colonial General Assembly in 1747 designated this area an ecclesiastical society and named it Marlborough. In 1803 the Connecticut General Assembly incorporated Marlborough as a «district town» deriving its lands from Colchester, Hebron and Glastonbury Sadler’s Ordinary, believed to have been built in 1653 near Lake Terramuggus, entertained travelers on the Path to Monhege between the Thames and Connecticut Rivers. The first schoolhouse here was built in 1760, a time when farms and sawmills flourished. Marlborough Tavern, still serving the public, opened its doors late in the colonial period. Local industry, chiefly in textiles, was spurred by the New London Turnpike during the nineteenth century, but vanished with the burning of the last mill in 1907. Therefore Marlborough is mainly a residential community. Mary Hall, of this town, an educator, became in 1882 the first woman lawyer to be admitted to practice at the bar of Connecticut. Erected by the Town of Marlborough the Marlborough Historical Society and the Connecticut Historical Commission 1978
