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Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Hartford, CT

A memorial marks the location of the July 6, 1944 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus fire, one of the deadliest circus disasters in American history. The memorial stands near the former big-top site and preserves the names and memory of the victims.

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

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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