Milford honors its founders and Native Americans with an 1889 bridge on the site of the city’s first mill.
A 1905 monument marks the former location of Hartford’s legendary Charter Oak tree. The Charter Oak, a noted landmark and symbol for Hartford and Connecticut, was supposedly the hiding place of the royal charter granting legitimacy to the colony of Connecticut. The monument, not far from where the Charter Oak stood, is at the corner […]
Manchester’s Civil War veterans are honored with a monument in the city’s Center Memorial Park. The monument features a bronze infantryman standing atop a granite base inscribed with the Connecticut and United States shields. A dedication on the front (northeast) face reads, “In memory of the soldiers of Manchester who died in the war of […]
The author of the children’s classic “Black Beauty” is honored with a memorial fountain outside the Ansonia Public Library. The library and the fountain, at the corner of Cottage Avenue and South Cliff Street, were both donated by Caroline Phelps Stokes to honor her parents as well as her grandfather, Ansonia founder Anson Phelps. The […]
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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Bridgeport honors the donor of the city’s Beardsley Park with a statue near the park entrance. In 1875, Beardsley, a farmer and cattle dealer, donated more than 150 acres of land in the city’s north end for use as a park. Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape architect responsible for New York’s Central Park and Bridgeport’s […]
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In honor of the holiday season, we’re running this nighttime image of the 1877 Soldier’s Monument on the west side of the Derby green. The monument, which we highlighted in a February post, honors Civil War veterans from Derby and present-day Shelton. The granite base was dedicated in 1877, and the bronze figure was added […]
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A stone marker near the East Norwalk train station marks the location of the earliest homesteads in Norwalk. The granite monument bears an inscription on its west face reading “Norwalk founded A.D. 1649. Its earliest homes were planted in the near vicinity of this stone. First meeting house directly opposite west. Erected by the Norwalk […]
An 1867 marble statue depicting a Civil War cavalry officer being greeted by a young girl stands outside Connecticut’s home for veterans in Rocky Hill. The statue was originally located in Darien at the state’s first veterans’ facility, Fitch’s Home for Soldiers and Orphans. That facility was founded by Benjamin Fitch, a wealthy dry goods […]
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Portland honors its Civil War heroes with an 1872 obelisk made from local brownstone. The front (northwest) face of the obelisk bears the dedication, “Erected May 30, 1872, by the town of Portland to the memory of her brave sons who gave their lives in defence of the Union during the war of the rebellion […]