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East Rock Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

New Haven, CT

A tall nineteenth-century war monument crowns East Rock above New Haven, reached by road or trail depending on seasonal access. The summit setting makes the ornate monument feel more like a hilltop shrine than a conventional downtown memorial.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Roadside America

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