Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, Connecticut preserves the site of a Continental Army winter encampment from 1778 to 1779, when Major General Israel Putnam quartered more than 3,000 men in three camps to help protect military stores at Danbury and watch routes to Long Island Sound and the Hudson River Valley. Known as Connecticut's Valley Forge, the site retains soldiers' chimneys and firebacks and includes reconstructed military buildings, a monument, and an equestrian statue of Putnam. Created in 1887, it is Connecticut's oldest state park and later gained National Register recognition for its Revolutionary War importance.