Connecticut honors American Revolution hero Thomas Knowlton with a statue on the grounds of the state capitol. The statue, near the corner of Trinity Street and Capitol Avenue, honors Knowlton, a Massachusetts native whose family moved to Ashford, Connecticut, when he was a child. At the age of 15, Knowlton fought in the French and […]
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A French nobleman who played key roles in supporting the Continental Army during the American Revolution is honored with a statue in Hartford. The Marquis de Lafayette memorial, at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Lafayette Street, stands on a traffic island across from the State Capitol building. The statue, dedicated in 1932, depicts Lafayette, […]
Hartford honors the victims of the city’s worst disaster with a memorial on the site of the 1944 circus fire. On July 6, 1944, a fire during a performance of the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus claimed an estimated 168 lives and caused hundreds of injuries. Those lost and injured during the tragedy are […]
A monument to Abraham Lincoln in Hingham, Mass., honors an ancestral connection between the president and the town. Lincoln’s early relatives, including his great-great-great-great grandfather Samuel, were among the English settlers of Hingham. The Lincoln statue, on a green near Samuel Lincoln’s home on Lincoln Street, was dedicated in 1939. The south face of the monument’s […]
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