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Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport

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178: 29: 304:, (1829-1897) prolific inventor with over 150 domestic and international patents including a portable steam saw, the spring steel hoop for hoop skirts, the cold rolled steel process, and the screw micrometer; founder of Bridgeport Brass (originally named Wilmot & Kissam in Brooklyn, NY-moved to Bridgeport at P. T. Barnum’s request) and founder of American Tube & Stamping (originally Wilmot & Hobbs) in Bridgeport, CT. 340: 328:, 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. 448: 443: 438: 433: 83: 458: 463: 353: 381: 393: 76: 321: 453: 411: 294:, precursor to USCG, United States Lighthouse Service; credited with saving 21 lives as a light housekeeper. 156: 60: 301: 242: 317:
monument, Pro Patria. The granite stele monument with bronze plaque, raised in 1906 by the Bridgeport
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Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries
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design in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city.
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and Mr. Moody," the cemetery's first superintendent.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Coordinates
41°10′19″N 73°13′19″W / 41.172°N 73.222°W / 41.172; -73.222
www.mtgrovecemetery.org
Find a Grave
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Bridgeport, Connecticut
rural cemetery
P. T. Barnum
Horatio Stone

Neal Ball
P. T. Barnum
William D. Bishop
Fanny Crosby
Vernon Dalhart
Anselm Franz
Jumo 004
Lycoming T53
Honeywell T55
Robert Lawson
Caldecott
Newbery medal
John E. W. Thompson
African-American
Haiti
San Domingo
General Tom Thumb
little person

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