Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport

Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport
Mountain Grove Cemetery
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P. T. Barnum's gravestone at Mountain Grove
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Year established 1849
Country United States
Location Bridgeport, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°10′19″N 73°13′19″W / 41.172°N 73.222°W / 41.172; -73.222Coordinates: 41°10′19″N 73°13′19″W / 41.172°N 73.222°W / 41.172; -73.222
Type Public
Website [1]
Find a Grave [2]

Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 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

Contents

Notable interments

Notables interred here include:[2]

Civil War monument

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

References

  1. ^ Rogak, Lisa (2004), Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries, Globe Pequat ISBN 07627-3000-5
  2. ^ Find-a-grave: Mountain Grove Cemetery
  3. ^ Pro Patria: Civil War monument of Connecticut

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