An Ansonia neighborhood honors residents who have served in recent wars with a granite monument on a small hillside. The Woodbridge Avenue Honor Roll, near the intersection with Visselli Court (named after the first resident lost in World War II), is the latest version of a monument that started informally during the Second World War […]
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Old Saybrook maintains the site of New England’s first fortification as a park featuring elevated boardwalks through a scenic riverside marsh. Fort Saybrook Monument Park, near where the Connecticut River empties into Long Island Sound, marks the site of a 1636 fort constructed by English military engineer Lion Gardiner to defend the Old Saybrook settlement […]
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