Eastford honors its war veterans with a monument on the green in front of its public library. The monument, a granite block with bronze plaques, stands at the intersections of Eastford Road (Route 198) with Westford and Old Colony roads. The monument’s south face features a bronze Honor Roll plaque listing about 63 names of […]
The first Union general killed in the Civil War is one of several veterans buried in Eastford’s General Lyon Cemetery. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, an Eastford native and West Point graduate, was killed in August of 1861 while fighting in Missouri. Lyon is honored with a marble monument near the middle of the small cemetery, which […]