A monument in Litchfield’s West Cemetery honors local Civil War heroes, including 23 buried on distant battlefields. The monument, at the center of a cemetery section known as the Soldiers’ Lot, features a granite drum and the simple inscription, “Mustered Out.” The monument was erected in 1894 as part of the dedication of a section […]
On the 150th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown’s raid on a Federal armory in Harpers Ferry, we’re taking a look at the Torrington site of his birthplace. Brown was born in 1800 on what is now John Brown Road. The site, listed on Connecticut’s Freedom Trail, today consists of a small roadside clearing surrounded by […]
A 1904 granite monument in Seymour’s French Memorial Park honors the town’s Civil War heroes. The Soldiers’ Monument, whose design is based on a monument dating back to ancient Athens, features a granite infantry soldier standing atop a domed shaft supported by six pillars. A dedication on the front (south) face reads, “This monument is […]
Litchfield honors its Civil War heroes with a marble obelisk on the green. A dedication on the front (south) face of the monument, which was dedicated in 1874, reads, “Pro Patria” (“For one’s country in Latin). The dedication is the centerpiece of an artistic bas relief featuring two weeping soldiers, draped flags, crossed rifles and […]
Congratulations to volunteers from the Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association, Westport’s Park & Recreation and several local businesses for their efforts to clean the town’s Pasacreta Park, which honors a police captain who died from cancer in 1976. Over the past 30 years, the site had largely become overgrown, but it was cleaned and re-landscaped this […]
Meriden boasts an impressive collection of military monuments along a nearly quarter-mile stretch of Broad Street (Rte. 5). The largest of the monuments, near the intersection of Broad Street and East Main Street, is the city’s 1930 World War Monument. The monument, by Italian sculptor Aristide Berto Cianfarani, features four figures (representing infantry soldiers, marines, […]
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East Hartford honors its Civil War veterans with an 1868 obelisk erected at the highest point of Center Cemetery. A dedication on the base of the monument’s front (west) face reads, “The Union, it must and shall be preserved.” The west face also bears the U.S. and Connecticut shields, and a decorative element featuring a […]
More than 2400 Confederate prisoners of war and 135 Union guards are buried at Finn’s Point National Cemetery in southern New Jersey. The National Cemetery, next to Fort Mott State Park in Pennsville, N.J., holds the remains of Confederate prisoners who were held at Fort Delaware, a Civil War prison camp on the Delaware River’s […]
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Milford honors the common grave of 46 smallpox-infected Revolutionary War prisoners of war who died in the city in 1777 with a brownstone obelisk. The 1852 monument, in Milford Cemetery, honors infected Continental soldiers who were released onto a Milford beach on January 1, 1777 by British forces. Many of the soldiers were able to […]
The grave of Sgt. Herman Baker, who served in the American Revolution, rests within the Pratt & Whitney complex on Willow Street in East Hartford. Baker, a Tolland native who is also listed as “Heman” in some accounts, served with the Lexington Alarm, a local company that rushed to help the Minutemen after the revolution […]