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Dave Pelland on February 6th, 2013

Hinsdale, Massachusetts, honors its war veterans with a memorial outside the town’s library. The monument, near the intersection of South Street (Route 8) and Maple Street (Route 143), was dedicated in 1923 and features a Civil War cannon. A dedication plaque on the northeast face of the monument’s base reads, “This memorial was erected by [...]

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Dave Pelland on July 4th, 2012

The 1910 Minuteman monument by sculptor Harry Daniel Webster is one of several Westport monuments to a British raid in April of 1777.

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Dave Pelland on March 26th, 2012

Yale honors Nathan Hale with a statue outside his former Old Campus dormitory. Hale, named Connecticut’s state hero after being executed by British forces in 1776, is honored with a statue by noted artist (and fellow Yale alum) Bela Lyon Pratt. The statue depicts Hale just before his hanging in New York City. His last [...]

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Dave Pelland on January 16th, 2012

Coventry honors veterans of several wars with monuments on the town’s historic green. Veterans Memorial Green, along Lake, High and Cross streets, is a former militia ground used for training during the American Revolution, War of 1812 and the Civil War. Today, the green features six monuments, and ground has been broken for a statue [...]

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Dave Pelland on December 22nd, 2011

War veterans from the Stony Creek section of Branford are honored with monuments on a small green. The green, at the intersections of Halls Point, Sachem and Thimble Islands roads, features three monuments made from the pink granite for which Stony Creek is well known. The central monument features three Honor Roll plaques on its [...]

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Dave Pelland on December 5th, 2011

New Canaan honors its war veterans with several Honor Roll plaques in the lobby of Town Hall. On the east wall of the first floor hallway, a plaque honors New Canaan’s veterans of the American Revolution, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. The American Revolution sections lists about 130 residents. The Mexican-American War section [...]

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Dave Pelland on October 24th, 2011

Wilton honors its veterans with a group of monuments in a plaza dedicated in 2010. The Veterans Memorial Green, at the intersection of Center Street and Old Ridgefield Road, features granite columns of honors and benches. The site is dedicated to honor, “Wilton’s fallen heroes who made the supreme sacrifice in America’s wars.” The collection [...]

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Dave Pelland on September 15th, 2011

Waterford honors veterans of the nation’s wars with a collection of monuments in two local parks. Three monuments are featured in a small green in War Memorial Park on Rope Ferry Road (Route 156), near the intersection with Great Neck Road (Route 213). A bronze plaque on a 1975 monument honors local residents who served [...]

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Dave Pelland on August 16th, 2011

Nathan Hale is honored in his hometown of Coventry with a large monument in a cemetery that also bears his name. The 1846 monument, near the entrance to Nathan Hale Cemetery on Lake Street, is a 45-foot-tall granite obelisk with Egyptian-themed decorative elements. A dedication on the monument’s east face reads, “Captain Nathan Hale, 1776.” [...]

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Dave Pelland on August 11th, 2011

Ellington honors its veterans and war heroes with a pair of monuments on the town green. Veterans of World War I and earlier conflicts are honored with a granite monument, dedicated in 1926, near the intersection of Maple Street (Route 140) and Main Street (Route 286). A bronze marker on the monument’s east face bears [...]

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