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Manchester Fire Fighters Memorial Garden

Manchester Fire Fighters Memorial Garden

5.0(1 review)
5.3 mi

What a powerful mix of beauty, creativity, respect, and awe. What a wonderful way to honor…read morefirefighters. This has to be seen to be believed. It really is a memorial garden, a winding path with sets of stairs takes you on a journey of monuments, plaques, artifacts, and sculpted gardens and decorative bricks to create an overpowering effect. The Memorial Garden was dedicated on September 11, 2002 to honor "ALL WHO ANSWERED THE FINAL ALARM". The garden is at the side of Manchester Fire Station No. 5, 331 Tolland Turnpike, Manchester, CT, the garden is a mix of memorials and plantings adjacent to the American flag. The garden currently contains nine different memorials. The first New York memorial was dedicated on September 11, 2002 and is comprised of two retired twin alarm boxes depicting the North and South World Trade Center Towers, engraved in glass, are the names, ranks, and stations of all 343 New York Firefighters lost in the attacks of September 11, 2001. There is a planting of bushes that depict the numerals 9-11 and a grouping of bricks to form the numerals 3 4 3. There are also memorials to firefighters that died in the line of duty all over the country. Remember these catastrophes? A deadly 1999 warehouse fire in Worcester, MA that claimed six lives. A 2007 fire and collapse that took nine firefighters in Charleston, SC. The 2013 Arizona wildfire that consumed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew. They are all remembered here. There is a beam from the WTC. There are many individual memorials to CT firefighters who dies in the line of duty across the state. There are stones and flowers and plantings and trees. There is an eternal flowing fire hydrant. There's a memorial bench. There's a large memorial stone etched with aerial ladders. There is a bronze bell mounted in stone. Seriously, you could spend a full contemplative hour here, walking the garden, looking at all the exhibits, and reading all of the plaques and monuments.

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Manchester Fire Fighters Memorial Garden
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The Cogswell Memorial Fountain

The Cogswell Memorial Fountain

4.0(1 review)
8.7 mi

Oh demon alcohol, Sad memories I cannot recall,…read moreWho thought I would say, Damn it all and blow it all, Oh demon alcohol (The Kinks) Not only was Henry Daniel Cogswell a millionaire dentist, but he was a crusading teetotaler who thought that building public drinking fountains all over town would help curb the public from the evil temptations of demon alcohol. In 1883, Cogswell donated this fountain to the town of Vernon. Of course, it was topped with a statue of himself. In one hand he held a glass of water, and in the other he held the Temperance Pledge. Seemed that Cogswell was pretty serious about the evils of alcohol. Turns out there were over 30 bars in Vernon at the time, and those that supported them didn't exactly see eye to eye with Cogswell. So it was no surprise when in the middle of the night, someone took down Cogswell's statue, liberated it from its pedestal, and heaved it into Shenipsit Lake. The local constable fished it out of the lake and set it up again, only to see it disappear once more! It was missing until 1908, when it mysteriously appeared propped up against a downtown building. It was put into storage and melted down into scrap during World War II. The fountain had a stone urn in place instead of the statue for years. In 2005, a replica statue was dedicated and it was returned to its rightful spot atop the fountain for a few years. Recently, it was removed, and again replaced with an urn. The replacement statue is being repaired for rust damage, some cracks, and a missing right hand. Cogswell's message still appears to be meeting resistance over 100 years after it was first broadcast. All I can say is "I'll drink to that"!

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East Hartford Civil War Memorial

East Hartford Civil War Memorial

5.0(1 review)
5.3 mi

The Civil War ended on May 9, 1865…read more By the time the decade of the 1860's had ended, ten Civil War monuments had already been built across the United States. Six of them can be found in Connecticut. The very first one, built in 1863 (as the war still raged on) is in Kensington, CT, and I reviewed that about two and a half years ago. https://www.yelp.com/biz/americas-first-civil-war-monument-berlin Today I visited one of our state's other historically significant monument in East Hartford's Center Cemetery. It was built in 1868. You can easily walk to it, using the Cemetery entrance on Main Street. It's more or less 100 yards in, but easily visible as soon as you walk into the cemetery grounds. Look for the 25 foot tall brownstone obelisk topped by an eagle with a stack of cannonballs and a cannon near the base. The monument lists and honors the 23 men of East Hartford that died in the war, including this significant listing: Samuel W. Francis, Col'd. Co. C. 30. Reg. C.V. Died at City Point Hospital, Oct. 27, 1863. Aged 30. Francis was a member of a "Colored Company" and his inclusion shows how the monument's designers wanted to acknowledge and recognize African American involvement in the Union Army. You'll also see the CT Shield, the US Shield, and worn images of a sword, flag, rifle, and a backpack engraved onto the monument. Some of the engravings read: THE UNION IT MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED ALL HONOR TO THE BRAVE WE MOURN THE PATRIOT DEAD ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES THAT THE REPUBLIC MIGHT LIVE. You can also see the names of the battles - COLD HARBOR / ANDERSONVILLE, KINGSTON / SHARPSBURG, PETERSBURG / DRURYS BLUFF, ANTIETAM / PORT HUDSON It's an odd place for this marker and cemetery, right behind busy Main Street.

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