Veterans of the Civil War and later conflicts are honored with monuments on the green in Norfolk. The 1868 Soldiers’ Monument, one of the earliest tributes to Civil War veterans in Connecticut, is a tall granite obelisk similar to monuments in Plymouth, North Branford and other monuments dedicated in the late 1860s. The Norfolk monument […]
Norfolk honors its World War I veterans and heroes with a triangular monument featuring a replica of the Liberty Bell. The monument, dedicated on Armistice Day in 1921, stands on Memorial Green at the intersection of North Street (Route 272) and Greenwoods Road (Route 44). The monument features three archways rising from a triangular base […]