Wednesday, September 2, 2015

MOUNTAIN GROVE, Bridgeport

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Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport




TypePublic
Website[1]
Find a Grave[2]



Mountain Grove CemeteryBridgeportConnecticut, was laid out in 1849 in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city.
The cemetery was designed by P. T. Barnum, who himself is buried there.[1]

Tom Thumb's gravestone

Notable interments[edit]

Notables interred here include:[2]

Civil War monument[edit]

The cemetery includes a Civil War monument, Pro Patria. The granite stele monument with bronze plaque, raised in 1906 by the Bridgeport Elias Howe Grand Army of the Republic post and the State of Connecticut, is dedicated "IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN". The monument, by the Bridgeport sculptor Paul Winters Morris (1865–1916) includes bas-relief figures of soldiers with heads bowed. The monument is at the front of a plot marked by pyramids of cannonballs that contains the graves of about 83 Civil War veterans.[3]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Rogak, Lisa (2004), Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries, Globe Pequat ISBN 0-7627-3000-5
  2. Jump up^ Mountain Grove Cemetery: Famous persons at Find a Grave
  3. Jump up^ Pro Patria: Civil War monument of Connecticut

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