Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).

Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).

Burdick, William A., contractor.

Smith Granite Company, fabricator. (possibly by)

Rhode Island Granite Works, fabricator. (possibly by)

Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).

Installed ca. 1870.

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Gray Westerly granite.

Approx. 24 x 6 x 6 ft.

(On front of pedestal, incised:) TO THE MEMORY OF THE/SOLDIERS FROM THIS TOWN/WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY/IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION/(Followed by seven names and dates of death) (On south and east sides of pedestal: nine names and dates) (On north side of pedestal: ten names and dates) unsigned

An obelisk consisting of pedestal and tapered shaft.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Norfolk

Administered by Town of Norfolk, Selectmen's Office, 19 Maple Avenue, Norfolk, Connecticut 06058

Located Town Green, South intersection of SRs 44 & 272, Norfolk, Connecticut

The cost of the monument was $2,200. The monument may have been cut by the Smith Granite Co. or Rhode Island Granite Works. For related information see Theron Wilmot Crissey's "1744-1900 History of Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut," published by Massachusetts Publishing Company, 1900, pg. 315; and Frederick S. Dennis's "The Norfolk Village Green," Norfolk, 1917, pg. 64-65.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

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