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A 13 inch mortar used by Union troops during the Civil War in the siege of Petersburg. The power of this piece of artillery helped to speed the capture of that town by Union soldiers. |
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Governor of Connecticut from 1877-79. Women will appreciate this man, for he sponsored a law that finally gave women legal control over their own property. Statue given to city by his friends. Sculptor Karl Gerhardt. |
Hero of the American Revolution, fatally wounded in the Battle of Harlem, mourned by George Washington as "a brave and gallant officer." Sculptor Enoch Smith Woods.
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Known as "Wolf" Putnam because as a boy he killed a wolf in its den.Hero of the American Revolution. Statue was the gift of Joseph P.Allyn and the Putnam Phalanx. Putnam's plow, his saddle, uniforms and other memorabilia are now kept in the Putnam Phalanx Armory, 81 Wethersfield Avenue, and may be viewed by appointment. Sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward. |
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Also known as the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, the Gothic and Romanesque revival monument is made of brownstone ... (more) |
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Hartford dentist who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide gas as an anesthetic. Dr. Wells first administered the gas to himself and had a fellow dentist pull one of his teeth. He thus assumed sole personal responsibility for the experiment in case it should prove to be fatal. Truman H. Bartlett. scupted the monument that was erected in 1875. Visit the Wells gravesite. |
 One of the only remaining descendants of the historic tree that fell during a storm in 1856, a monument for which sits today near the approximate location of the original tree. |
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 Spanish-American War Memorial by sculptress, Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder. |
 
 Designed by Massey I. Rhind, the fountain was given to the city by John J. Corning in memory of his father, John B. Corning, a prominent Hartford merchant. The sculpture depicts Native Americans engaged in the customary activities of hunting, fishing and fighting. The hart at the apex of the fountain is a symbol of Hartford and settlers from Hertford, England.
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French "Hero of Two Worlds" who came to aid the American colonists during the American Revolution. The original of this statue stands in the Louvre, a gift to France from the school children of the United States. One unique addition is the turtle by the horse's hind foot symbolizing the artist's tardiness in completing the replica. Statue given to city by Mrs. Frances Hudson Storrs and dedicated on November 11, 1932. Sculptor, Paul Wayland Bartlett. |
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The "Admiral of the Ocean Seas" and discoverer of America. Statue given to city by Italian-American residents and dedicated on October 12, 1925. Sculptor, Vincenzo Miserendino.
The proximity of the Columbus and Lafayette statues has the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" facing the rear of the horse ridden by the "Hero of the Two Worlds." This created a brouhaha by some local residents, but the original placement remains today.
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 Thomas Hooker Square There is no existing likeness of the founder of Hartford. So the sculptress, Frances Wadsworth, studied the features of Hooker's many local descendants when she designed this statue. See Ancient Burying Ground or check out the Hooker Day Parade. |
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 Thomas Hooker Square
Marks the site of the historic meeting between the Count de Rochambeau, commander of the French forces, and General George Washington, in 1780. Two additional plaques on the boulder commemorate the 175th and 200th anniversaries of the Governor's Footguard, founded in 1771 and still flourishing today. |
Tower Square
Commemorating the first "travelers" to Hartford in 1636. Sculptress, Frances Wadsworth.
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Tower Square
The plaque designates the site of the tavern where, according to tradition, the Royal Charter granted by King Charles II giving the power of self-government to the Colony of Connecticut, was spirited away to be hidden in the trunk of an old oak tree so that it would not be surrendered, as demanded by Sir Edmunds Andros, Governor of all New England. |
 Tower Square
Jeremiah Wadsworth, Hartford's wealthiest merchant in the 18th century, was an influential man whose home was situated on the site of the current Wadsworth Atheneum. Colonel Wadsworth was Washington's Commissary General during the American Revolution, and supplier of the French Allied Forces. As such, many important figures of the day met at Wadsworth's home – including George Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau. Their horses were stabled in the Wadsworth barn, situated where Travelers Plaza is now. The actual barn was removed to the town of Lebanon, Connecticut and is currently maintained by the Daughters of the American Revolution. |
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Wadsworth Atheneum
The immortal last words of Connecticut's best-known hero of the American Revolution were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Designed by sculptor Enoch Woods Smith for a competition held in the 1880's by the State of Connecticut for a statue to be placed in the state capitol building. James J. Goodwin commissioned the statue and, when it was not chosen as the winning entry, gifted it to the museum in 1892. |
Ancient Burying Ground
Obelisk of pink Connecticut granite on which are inscribed the names of the Founders of Hartford. |
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Ancient Burying Ground
Tribute to another of Hartford's founders. Rev. Stone fled religious oppression of Puritans in England to come to the New World with Thomas Hooker. He negotiated the purchase of Hartford from the Suckiag Indians, and became one of the settlement's most influential founders. |
Ancient Burying Ground
Commemorates 63 African Americans known to have been interred in cemetery, as well as more than 250 others believed to have been there.... more |
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Near entrance to Ancient Burying Ground.
Placed in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication, that was established on October 29, 1764 at the site. |
 Near intersection with Asylum Street. Stands at the site of the former location where the dentist had his office and where he discovered anesthesia. Visit Bushnell Park to see his monument, or Cedar Hill Cemetery to see where he is interred.
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Municipal Building
Tribute to Samuel Clemens, one of Hartford's more well-known residents.
Visit his Hartford home. |
 Main Street at New Ross Park on the I-84 deck.
Commemorates an event in the history of sister city New Ross, in County Wexford, Ireland during the 1798 rebellion wherein Matthew Furlong was shot dead as he tried to surrender at the Three Bullet Gate.
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 Main Street at the corner of Ely
Given to the city by two Hartford merchants, Walter and Henry Keney, in honor of their mother, this tower stands on the site of the Keney's former home and was built to house a clock and chimes. Erected in 1898, it was designed by Massey I. Rhind in a style reminiscent of the Tour St. Jacques in Paris. It is considered unique in that it commemorates a woman whose only claim to greatness was that of being a good parent. |
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In 1864, during the Civil War, Rear-Admiral Farragut led the attack on Mobile Bay in his flagship, the U.S.S. Hartford. When warned that the Southerners had placed many torpedoes in the bay, the Admiral uttered his famous retort, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" The anchor of the battleship is located on the grounds of the University of Hartford in Bloomfield. Although Admiral won the battle, his ship is now at the bottom of the drink somewhere off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. |
Named for the Native American word for the Connecticut River, the statue by Clyde Lynds is made of fiber optics, concrete and steel. At night, the fiber optics display fish that mature in the ocean and return to the Connecticut River to spawn. |
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 Charter Oak Avenue
Gift of the Society of Colonial Dames. The great tree that became known as the Charter Oak was revered by Native Americans because of its great size, and was used by them as a Council Tree. By the middle of the 19th century, the base of the tree measured over 33 feet in circumference. After the tree fell in a storm during 1856, the rings of its trunk were counted, and it was discovered to be almost 1,000 years old. |
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 Asylum Avenue.
Designed by Frances Wadsworth, the statue honors Alice Cogswell, the daughter of the founder of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, and its first pupil. Now called the American School for the Deaf, it is located in West Hartford. |
 Pope Park.
In 1878 Albert Pope, an industrial pioneer, manufactured the Columbia, the first American bicycle. He went on to make one of the first gasoline-driven automobiles in America, as well as an electric car. The fountain is located in the park created by the donation of land from the industrialist. |
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 Colt Park.
Two statues by sculptor Massey I. Rhind showing the great manufacturer as an ingenious and inventive sailor boy and as a rich and powerful man. The monument is sited on an area of Colt Park that will become the Hartford Botanic Garden. |
 Barry Square
Born in Hartford and a graduate of Trinity College, Stedman joined the 14th Connecticut Infantry and almost immediately became a captain in the 5th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Fatally wounded on August 5, 1864 at Petersburg, he was 26 years old at the time of his death. |
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A hero of the American Revolution from the battle of Brandywine, Pulaski was mortally wounded on October 9, 1779 in Savannah, Georgia. The monument was designed by Granville W. Carter and dedicated on July 4, 1976. It is located on Main Street at the head of Pulaski Mall, a park that runs parallel to Charter Oak Avenue.
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In 1981, ten jailed Irish Republicans started a hunger strike to win status as political prisoners. Beginning with Bobby Sands, all ten died. The Hunger Strikers Memorial on Maple Avenue at the end of Freeman Street in the South End was established by the Hartford chapter of the Irish Northern Aid Committee and local Irish-Americans. The Celtic Cross sits on a base inscribed with the name of Bobby Sands and the other prisoners who died in the hunger strike.
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Airport Road. South Meadows
Resurrected by Michael and John Kelly. This statue of a Union soldier was a reject because the sculptor made the mistake of putting the soldier's right foot forward instead of the left at parade rest, as was then required by military regulations. Today he has lost his feet, his hands, his rifle and his face; but he is a familiar curiosity. |
