The town of Plymouth honors veterans of recent wars with three monuments in a Main Street park. The Plymouth Veterans’ Monument, near the intersection of Main Street (Route 6) and North Main Street, features a monument honoring the two World Wars and Korea, as well as a separate monument commemorating the Vietnam War. The two […]
An obelisk in Terryville’s Hillside Cemetery honors the service of local residents killed in the Civil War. The dedication date of the monument, in the Terryville section of Plymouth, was not recorded. But like its neighbor on the Plymouth green, its unadorned design indicates it was probably erected in 1865 or 1866. Bronze tablets listing […]
One of the state’s oldest Civil War monuments stands on the green in Plymouth. Although the dedication date of the monument was not recorded, local tradition and its appearance indicate it was completed shortly after the Civil War ended in 1865. The monument is a tasteful obelisk, similar to the monuments in Northfield and North […]