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Connecticut's Monuments: an essay

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CONNECTICUT CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS: HIGHLIGHTS

NUMBER OF MONUMENTS BY LOCATION TYPE

In cemeteries 38

In town greens or town centers 37

In parks 30

TEN OLDEST MONUMENTS

July 28, 1863 SOLDIERS MONUMENT
312 Percival Avenue
Kensington
Berlin, CT

January 20, 1866 SOLDIERS MONUMENT
West Cemetery
49 Pound Street
Bristol, CT

February 1, 1866 ANDERSONVILLE MEMORIAL GUN
Yantic Cemetery
68 Lafayette Street
Norwich, CT

July 1866 CIVIL WAR MONUMENT
Cheshire Green
111 Church Drive
Cheshire, CT

September 1866 MONUMENT
The Green
4 Camp Hill Road
Northfield in Litchfield, CT

1866 WELD MONUMENT
Old North Cemetery
1741 Main Street, between Mather Street and Mahl Avenue
Hartford, CT

1866 SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
Town Green
1680 Foxon Road
North Branford, CT

1867 MANSFIELD POST CIVIL WAR MONUMENT
Indian Hill Cemetery
383 Washington Street
Middletown, CT

1867 RETURNED SOLDIER
Veterans Home and Hospital
287 West Street
Rocky Hill, CT

1868 SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Center Cemetery
948 Main Street
East Hartford, CT

Date unknown, buy maybe as early as 1865 SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
Plymouth Green
31 Maple Street
Plymouth, CT

TEN NEWEST MONUMENTS

May 30, 1992 VETERANS MEMORIAL
1 Monteith Drive
Farmington, CT

September 21, 1977 COMRADES MONUMENT
Cedar Grove Cemetery
638 Broad Street
New London, CT

June 2, 1939 WAR MEMORIAL MONUMENT
66 Main Street
Newtown, CT

May 30, 1936 VETERANS MEMORIAL FLAGPOLE
Veterans Cemetery, Spring Grove Cemetery
41 Hecker Avenue
Noroton Heights in Darien, CT

November 11, 1931 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MEMORIAL
West Street Green
87 West Street
Danbury, CT

June 14, 1926 CIVIL WAR PLAQUE
Old Stone Church Burial Ground
103 Riverview Road
Niantic in East Lyme, CT

May 31,1926 MONUMENT TO ALL WARS
Town Green
123 Maple Street
Ellington, CT

July 4, 1925 WAR MEMORIAL MONUMENT
207 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT

May 3 0, 1924 WARREN SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Hyde Park
4 Spring Street (behind)
Stafford Springs in Stafford, CT

1924 HAMDEN MEMORIAL TOWN HALL
2372 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT

TEN TALLEST MONUMENTS

116' SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MEMORIAL ARCH
Bushnell Park
Ford Street
Hartford, CT

110' SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT
East Rock Park
New Haven, CT

63' 10" WINCHESTER SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
Crown Street
Winsted in Winchester, CT

54' SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Seaside Park
Monument Drive
Bridgeport, CT

51' SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
Central Park
242 Main Street
New Britain, CT

50' SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT
46 State Street
New London, CT

48' SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
West end of the Green
156 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT

45' SOLDIERS MONUMENT
142 East Main Street
Meriden, CT

40' WAR MEMORIAL
801 Worthington Ridge
Berlin, CT

37' SOLDIER'S MONUMENT
Fanning Park
Intersection of East Main and North Main Streets
Jewett City in Griswold, CT

MONUMENTS GIVEN BY INDIVIDUAL DONORS

Walter S. Carter

CARTER SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
Center Cemetery
91 Center Hill Road
Barkhamsted, CT

Frank L. Wilcox

WAR MEMORIAL
801 Worthington Ridge
Berlin, CT

Thomas Smith Marlor

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT
29 Canterbury Road, SR 169
Brooklyn, CT

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN SEDGWICK MEMORIAL
410 SR 43
corner of Hautboy Hill Road,
Cornwall Hollow in Cornwall, CT

Elizabeth Wheeler Miller

SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Moodus Green
SR 151 at intersection with SR 149
Moodus in East Haddam, CT

Flora M. Smith

SMITH GATEWAY
Union Cemetery
33 East Pattagansett Road
Niantic in East Lyme, CT

Captain Nathaniel C. Hayden

SOLDIERS MONUMENT
2 School Street at intersection with Main Street
Unionville in Farmington, CT

Mercy Turner Barber

STANDARD-BEARER
Glastonbury Green
Hubbard Street
Glastonbury, CT

David Hale Fanning

SOLDIER'S MONUMENT
Fanning Park

Robert A. Gray

ROBERT A. GRAY MONUMENT
Fort Griswold State Park
94 Smith Street
Groton, CT

Colonel Vincent M. Wilcox

WILCOX SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
West Cemetery
408 Boston Post Road/US 1
Madison, CT

Robert Bishop

COMRADES MONUMENT
Cedar Grove Cemetery
638 Broad Street
New London, CT

Sebastian Duffy Lawrence

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT
46 State Street
New London, CT

Edward Williams Marsh

LINCOLN HERM
Top of Town Green
6 Aspetuck Avenue
New Milford, CT

Mary E. Hawley

WAR MEMORIAL MONUMENT
66 Main Street
Newtown, CT

Charles H. and Lucius Brown

BROWN SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
296 SR 164
Preston City in Preston, CT

Benjamin Fitch

RETURNED SOLDIER
Veterans Home and Hospital
287 West Street
Rocky Hill, CT

Lemuel Stoughton and Ann Toy Ellsworth

MEMORIAL GATEWAY
Simsbury Cemetery
755 Hopmeadow Street
Simsbury, CT

Colonel Charles Warren

WARREN SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Hyde Park
4 Spring Street (behind)
Stafford Springs in Stafford, CT

Charles Henry Mallory

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
47 East Main Street
Mystic Bridge
Mystic in Stonington, CT

Charles H. Pine

SOLDIER'S MONUMENT
East End Park
13 North Main Street
Winsted in Winchester, CT

Charles E. Chaffee

MEMORIAL HALL
1 South Main Street
Windsor Locks, CT

Leverett D. Kenea

KENEA SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Town Green
10 Kenea Avenue
Wolcott, CT

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