THIS WEEK IN GREENWICH HISTORY (August 20-28) On August 20, 1824, General Lafayette came to town. He was met by a troop of Connecticut cavalry at the Byram bridge and a salute was fired as a group of Greenwich citizens greeted him. As a tribute to General Israel Putnam, he left his carriage to walk down Put’s Hill “under an arch surmounted by a torn Revolutionary War flag carried at the Battle of White Plains” in 1776. August 22, 1913: An eight-foot shark weighing 300 pounds was caught off Sound Beach Cove. August 23, 1926: A four-foot sand shark was caught off Great Captain’s Island. This was the third one to be caught in a two-month period. On August 27, 1945, just a few weeks after the Japanese surrendered to the Allies, the Greenwich war toll was tallied at 127 dead, 22 missing out of 5,545 men who served. It was noted that this was a temporary figure, not a final one. Source: Greenwich Before 2000, Susan Richardson, ed., HSTG, 2000
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:42:27 +0000
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