| Mountain Grove Cemetery | |
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P. T. Barnum's gravestone at Mountain Grove
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| Details | |
| Established | 1849 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41°10′19″N 73°13′19″W / 41.172°N 73.222°W / 41.172; -73.222 |
| Type | Public |
| Website | www |
| Find a Grave | Mountain Grove Cemetery |
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States, was laid out in 1849 in the then popular rural cemetery design in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city.
The cemetery was founded by showman P. T. Barnum, who himself is buried there.[1] "The original grounds were surveyed and designed by Horatio Stone and Mr. [John] Moody," the cemetery's first superintendent.[2]
Notables interred here include:
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.[3]
