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P.T. Barnum Statue at Seaside Park

Bridgeport, CT

An imposing seated statue of circus impresario P.T. Barnum overlooks the waterfront park he helped create for Bridgeport. Installed after his death, it connects the city directly to the man whose museums, sideshows and spectacles helped define nineteenth-century American entertainment.

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

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Source: Roadside America

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