Today in Johnson City History, Sunday, June 29, 2025
Deaths, a dinner party, Jonesboro and Washington College celebrate and more
Thursday, June 29, 1775: Two hundred and fifty years ago today, “George Washington and two military aides rode through Wallingford and stopped at the Carrington Inn on Center Street. Washington had just been named Commander of the Continental Army and was riding to Boston, where the army, a rag-tag group of farmers and other volunteers, was camped in the hills overlooking Boston Harbor. Washington’s journey marked the real beginning of the American Revolution.” (Source: walpublib.org/washington0611, which is the website of the Wallingford Public Library in Wallingford, Connecticut.)