Sherman, Connecticut: The Forgotten Founder's Namesake Town

Roger Sherman signed the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution — the only person to sign all four. The Sherman Historical Society runs a Roger Sherman Learning Center by appointment and keeps its main museum in the Northrop House. The road between Sherman Center and New Milford, today's Route 37, was once the New Milford and Sherman Turnpike, chartered in 1818; the Sherman Historic District, centered on the Route 37/39 junction, was added to the National Register on July 31, 1991.

Sherman has no rail station and no interstate of its own. Route 37, an 18.66-mile road beginning at I-84 in Danbury, runs through New Fairfield and Sherman — as Greenwoods Hill Road through Pootatuck State Forest, then Barnes Hill Road — to US Route 7 in New Milford; Route 55, just 2.64 miles long, runs from the New York state line to US Route 7 in Gaylordsville. The nearest rail is Metro-North's Danbury Branch at Danbury, south on Route 37, or the lightly used Harlem Valley-Wingdale station across the New York line.