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GROTON BATTLE MONUMENT PLAQUE

GROTON BATTLE MONUMENT PLAQUE
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Location: MONUMENT STREET AND PARK AVENUE

City: GROTON

State: Connecticut

Zip Code: 6340

Type of Memorial: Obelisks War Monument

Year Dedicated: 1830

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Photograph By: BILL COUGHLIN

Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org

THE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, A.D. 1830, AND IN THE 55TH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE U.S.A. IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE PATRIOTS WHO FELL IN THE MASSACRE AT FORT GRISWOLD, NEAR THIS SPOT, ON THE 6TH OF SEPT. A.D. 1781, WHEN THE BRITISH, UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE TRAITOR, BENEDICT ARNOLD, BURNT THE TOWN OF NEW LONDON AND GROTON, AND SPREAD DESOLATION AND WOE THROUGHOUT THIS REGION.
SEE ALSO-GROTON BATTLE MONUMENT


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