Spanish American War Memorial, 1927, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut Historical Significance On an eagle adorned ship bow, with her wings dramatically spread and torch raised upward toward….
READ MOREHistorical Significance The National Iwo Jima Monument is a living memorial erected by the Iwo Jima Survivors Association in 1995. Dedicated to the 6,821 US servicemen that gave their lives….
READ MOREHistorical Significance The most prominent monument in New Haven, CT, and a maritime navigational beacon for the Long Island Sound, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument honors those who lost their….
READ MORESoldiers’ Monument, 1877, Manchester, CT Historical Significance The campaign to erect the Soldiers’ Monument in Manchester, CT, was prompted by the Colonel Albert Drake Post of the Grand Army….
READ MOREHistorical Significance In 1836, Horace Wells set up a well-received dental practice in Hartford, CT. Several years later, when he learned of the effects of nitrous oxide on the nervous….
READ MOREHistorical Significance The 1908 memorial to George Frisbie Hoar honors the man who helped to found the Massachusetts Republican Party in 1854. The seated, bronze figure of Senator Hoar is….
READ MOREHistorical Significance The third Civil War monument erected in New Haven, CT, the Broadway Civil War Monument was dedicated in 1905 and honors the First Connecticut Light Battery, and the….
READ MOREMilk Row Cemetery, 1804, Somerville, MA Established in 1804, in what was then Charlestown, Milk Row Cemetery consists of a .71 acre parcel in Somerville, MA. Once part of….
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