Pent Road Marker

The more I look around the Farmington Valley, the more semi-​hidden and overlooked evidence I stumble upon that shows how old this area is, and how it was chest deep in the Revolutionary War. Memorials are everywhere signifying events in colonial America.
I’ve lived in Simsbury since 1987, and have visited the Simsbury Post Office at 932 Hopmeadow Street conservatively 200 times. I never noticed this plaque until today, and I only saw it because my car battery was dead and I was standing outside waiting for the AAA truck.
At the front of the Post Office, in a strip of grass near the drive-​up mail boxes, is a stone monument with an old weathered plaque.
The inscription reads:
Entrance to Pent Road
1668 – 1787
THIS ROAD LEADING TO THE
RIVER CROSSING WAS A DIRECT
ROUTE TO WINDSOR
IT WAS USED BY THE MILITIA
ON THEIR WAY TO BOSTON
IN MAY 1775
PLACED BY
ABIGAIL PHELPS CHAPTER D.A.R.
1935
So in other words, Colonial American soldiers walked here about 238 years ago. The shootings at Lexington and Concord happened in April 1775 a month earlier than the date on the plaque. Who knows what fate awaited these men. Did they fight the Redcoats in New York? Or New Jersey? Or Quebec? Did they end up living through the brutal winter at Valley Forge? Did they fight in North Carolina or South Carolina? Were they at the decisive Battle of Yorktown?
If they did, their rendezvous with destiny and history may have had a stop in Simsbury…