Why are we named for Eunice Cobb Stocking?
Mrs. Eunice Cobb Stocking’s husband and three sons worked at the George Stocking Gunpowder Mill in the section of South Glastonbury known as Cotton Hollow. On August 23, 1777, Mrs. Stocking was returning on horseback from Boston when she heard the reverberations of an explosion claiming the lives of her husband and three sons. With financial assistance, Mrs. Stocking rebuilt the mill and continued to supply the Continental Army until the end of the Revolutionary War.
Two plaques now mark the site of the explosion in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. One marker, next to a state highway, states:
American Revolution
August 23, 1777
Stocking Gunpowder Mill Explosion Site
1500 Feet East
Presented by Eunice Cobb Stocking Chapter NSDAR
The other reads:
Stocking Gunpowder Mill Exploded on this Site
August 23, 1777
The Mill was Rebuilt and Continued to Supply
Gunpowder for the Continental Army
Commemorated by the Eunice Cobb Stocking Chapter
August 23, 1977