In the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, granite, concrete, and cast-iron hitching posts were a common feature along city streets, and Litchfield was no exception. This hitching post originally stood in front of the house at 718 North State Street. Early occupants of that house included Reverend Charles W. Ross, pastor of Union Avenue Christian Church from 1911 to 1913, and later Richard V. Carroll and his wife, Lydia, co-owners of Carroll and Son Undertakers and Embalmers. That lot was later occupied by the House of Sunshine, built in the 1940s and burned on October 31, 1964, and then by the Litchfield National Bank Drive In location, built in 1972 and sold in 2024. Hitching posts made to look like tree stumps, like this one, were made at the Litchfield Marble and Granite Works behind the library on Monroe Street. Five other hitching posts are still known to remain intact.