On the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the city of Bridgeport dedicated a new memorial honoring the 550 local residents lost in World War II. The new monument, made from polished black granite, was dedicated during a ceremony Saturday morning that featured World War II veterans and local officials who gathered on the Broad […]
An obelisk in Terryville’s Hillside Cemetery honors the service of local residents killed in the Civil War. The dedication date of the monument, in the Terryville section of Plymouth, was not recorded. But like its neighbor on the Plymouth green, its unadorned design indicates it was probably erected in 1865 or 1866. Bronze tablets listing […]
One of the state’s oldest Civil War monuments stands on the green in Plymouth. Although the dedication date of the monument was not recorded, local tradition and its appearance indicate it was completed shortly after the Civil War ended in 1865. The monument is a tasteful obelisk, similar to the monuments in Northfield and North […]
An allegorical figure holds a United States shield high above Salisbury’s green as part of the town’s 1891 Civil War monument. The figure stands atop a square granite base featuring cannon muzzles protruding from each side of the base in an arrangement that is not duplicated on other Connecticut Civil War monuments. The inclusion of […]