IX. Cemeteries, Monuments, Unique Statuary & Greens

When I started CTMQ, this was something I thought I didn’t care about. But then, as the months and years went by, I realized there was a lot of cool stuff in cemeteries – not to mention all the weird and unique statuary and monuments around the state. Finding these things is half the fun.

Also see the Freedom Trail, Amistad Trail, and Middletown Heritage Trail for more cemeteries, if that’s your thing. For statuary stuff, here are a bunch in Hartford.

For our other religious stuff, Go here.

As for the town greens, there are a few here in Connecticut worth writing about for various reasons – some pretty ridiculous, I’ll admit.

Cemeteries and Monuments

Old CT State Prison cemetery, Wethersfield, 5/27/2007
Cedar Hill Cemetary, Hartford, 6/9/2007
Underground crypt, New Haven, 7/21/2007
Barkhamsted Lighthouse, Barkhamsted, 9/9/2007
Barnum and Thumb Graves, Bridgeport, 6/14/2008
Uncas’s Grave, Norwich, 11/14/2008
Ancient Burying Ground of Hartford, 6/9/2009
Oldest Legible Grave in US, Palisado Cemetery, Windsor
Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, Hartford
Henry Obookiah’s Cenotaph, Cornwall
Fort Shantok Mohegan Burial Grounds, Montville
Giant Tree Grave Marker, Yantic Cemetery, Norwich

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“Sinner in the hands of an Angry God” marker, Enfield

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Odd and Unique Statuary & Roadside Monuments and Signs

Benedict Arnold Birthplace, Norwich, 11/1/2008
Hayfoot, Strawfoot, Hartford, 6/3/2009
Hunger Strikers Memorial, Hartford, 6/17/2009
Flood of 1936 Marker, Hartford, 6/17/2009
Alice Cogswell Statue, Hartford, 5/28/2009
“Sinner in the hands of an Angry God” marker, Enfield, 11/20/2009
Crazy John Mason Statue, Windsor, 11/21/2009
John Brown Birth Site, Torrington
Samuel Colt statue, Hartford
Site of First Cigar Factory in the US, Suffield, 6/14/2010
Charles Dow Birthplace, Sterling, 3/19/2011
PT Barnum Statue, Bethel, 6/22/2012
Confucius Statue, Hartford, 5/5/2011
Site of World’s First Payphone, Hartford, 1/9/2013
Site of Stephen Douglas Speech, Hartford, 1/9/2013
Oldest Roadside Memorial in the US (sort of), Ellingon, 3/29/2013

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1936 Flood Line markers, Hartford

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Town Greens of note

Orange Green
Lyme Green

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Oldest Civil War Monument in US, Kensington
First burial ground with plots, Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven
East Street Burying Grounds, Plainville (raised on stilts.)
Simon Lake’s Explorer, Milford
John Sedgwick Memorial, Cornwall
Dorrence Atwater Memorial, Plymouth
Eli Terry Water Wheel, Plymouth
Only Eli Terry wooden clock in the world, Plymouth Cong. Church, Plymouth
Overdown Highway Mile Marker, Plymouth
Moses Cleaveland Gravesite, Canterbury (Info)
Minuteman Statue, Westport (near Compo Beach)
Evil Death Bears, Redding (Image)
Shakespeare-on-Stratford, Stratford

One response to “IX. Cemeteries, Monuments, Unique Statuary & Greens”

  1. Darlene Kubeck says:

    Looking for the memorial to the train wreck in 1913 on the North Haven Wallingford line. I checked at Toelles crossing where someone told me that it used to stand

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