Established 1849 Type Public Phone +1 203-334-5294 | Country United States Founded 1849 | |
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Location Bridgeport, Connecticut Website www.mtgrovecemetery.org Find a Grave Mountain Grove Cemetery Address 215 Dewey St, Bridgeport, CT 06605, USA Burials P. T. Barnum, General Tom Thumb, Fanny Crosby Similar Barnum Museum, Barnum's American Museum, Iranistan, St Andrew Church, Fayerweather Island | ||
Mountain grove cemetery bridgeport ct
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, was laid out in 1849 in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city.
Contents
The cemetery was designed by P. T. Barnum, who himself is buried there.
Notable interments
Notables interred here include:
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.