Connecticut's largest city, its Mountain Grove Cemetery has a life-size statue of Tom Thumb
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Mountain Grove Cemetery - Angelfire  Mountain Grove Cemetery is located at the corner of North Avenue and ... I have listed below some of the more prominent inhabitants of the cemetery with ... On 19 July 1909, Ball made the first unassisted triple play in Major League .... Tom Thumb space saver Tom Thumb ... The statue on top is a life-size replica of Thumb.
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General Tom Thumb - Geni  Aug 16, 2016 ... Join the world's largest family tree ... Historical records matching General Tom Thumb .... To someone of Stratton's size, the dog would have seemed a large and ... P.T. Barnum purchased a life-sized statue of Tom Thumb and .... it as a grave stone at Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport - Wikipedia  Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, was laid out in 1849 in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city. The cemetery was designed by P. T. Barnum, who himself is buried there. Tom Thumb's gravestone ... General Tom Thumb, the little person, whose monument includes a life-size statue of...
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Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport | Damned Connecticut  Apr 21, 2014 ... The Damned Story: Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport is one of the ... Barnum's connection to his beloved Bridgeport has been well-documented; in addition to his eponymous museum, he was mayor of the Park City in 1875, built ... the Bunker Brothers and Tom Thumb, he was no stranger to oddities.
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General Tom Thumb's gravestone in Mountain Grove Cemetery ...  Tom Thumbs grave in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT. .... Charles Sherwood Stratton, aka "Tom Thumb" monument in Mountain Grove Park .... Photographer was the famous Bogardus studio in New York city. ..... Cemetery Statue ...... space the size of a few suburban gardens, Prague's old Jewish Cemetery is like...
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Greenmount Cemetery Booklet from UVM - Burlington Parks ...  Vermont. However, walking through the cemetery, you also can see .... that can be found in Greenmount Cemetery is that of General Ethan ... Allen's monument cannot be missed, as it is the largest and most ... was in Burlington, they visited the grave of the first ... With the construction of the new cemetery, all of the city's.
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Wadsworth Atheneum - Wikipedia  The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum located in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth ... The Wadsworth family, being one of the oldest and most affluent in the city, ... forerunners of the Hartford Public Library and Connecticut Historical Society, .... Nonprofit History and George Balanchine's "First Ballet in America"".
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Jeopary Questions page 910 - AUTHORS - TriviaBistro.com  AMERICANA: This Connecticut city famous for its university is nicknamed "Elm City" because it once had many elm-lined streets  PROVERBS: It "comes not...
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P.T. Barnum - The Barnum Museum-Bridgeport, Connecticut  P.T. Barnum, (1810-1891) - The Man, the Myth, the Legend ... enterprise, and was promoted as having 850,000 exhibits and curiosities throughout the saloons. ... The small boy became known to society as General Tom Thumb, Man in Miniature, ... an American tour by the famous Swedish coloratura soprano, Jenny Lind.
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Free Flashcards about ARCHITECTURE - StudyStack  HARTFORD. TWO 60,000-POUND STATUES OF THESE GRACEFUL BIRDS TOP A DISNEY WORLD HOTEL DESIGNED BY MICHAEL GRAVES... SWANS.
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The real Tom Thumb and the birth of celebrity - BBC News - BBC.com  Nov 25, 2014 ... Charles Stratton, better known by his on-stage alias, Tom Thumb, was a ... or the children's nursery rhyme, but few, it seems, think of the real life Tom Thumb, ... In the winter of 1842, legendary showman PT Barnum was stranded in ... boy" he had heard the townsfolk talk about, said to be just 25 inches tall.
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Tom Thumb's Wedding | History Today  Feb 2, 2013 ... The wedding photo of Charles Sherwood Stratton (Tom Thumb) and ... He added a few inches later on, but he would never stand as much as three feet tall. ... In 1844 Barnum took his protg to London, where he was driven about in a ... called Lavinia Warren (she had started life as Mercy Lavinia Warren...
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New Haven Travel Guide - Connecticut - New Haven City Guide  New Haven is not a big city, but its distinguished reputation is well-known across ... It is the home of prestigious Yale University, the charter for which was ... Walking along tree-lined Wooster Square, historic New Haven Green and the many leafy downtown streets, it is easy to understand how the 'Elm City' got its nickname.
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Named after a god of war # Quiz # Question - YouTube  Jul 7, 2016 ... video icon  This large Connecticut city was named after a structure spanning the Pequonnock # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo. No views...
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Barnum Museum, Planning to Digitize the Collections (PDF)  Bridgeport, Connecticut legislator, urban developer, community benefactor, ... Stratton), Lavinia Warren, and other little people; Swedish singer Jenny Lind; Jumbo the Elephant; ... Under the Foundation's stewardship the collections, exhibitions, ... miniature carriages used by Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt, including a...
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Free Flashcards about ARCHITECTURE - StudyStack  AT ITS OPENING, THIS NYC BUILDING WAS THE LARGEST MARBLE STRUCTURE IN ... OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THE U.S MINT IN THIS CITY STANDS NEAR THE SITE OF ITS ORIGINAL 1792 ... CHURCH IN JERUSALEM BUILT OVER WHAT IS VENERATED AS THE SITES OF CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION AND BURIAL...
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Campus Green - University of Vermont  This photo of the Ira Allen statue was also taken looking northeast at the statue. ... made clear his intentions to place a giant bronze statue of the Marquis de Lafayette, ... (7) The Vermont Sentinel reported on July 8th, 1825 that Lafayette had visited ... a walkway going from the Main College Building to South Prospect Street.
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Jeopary Questions page 1945 - NOTABLE NAMES - TriviaBistro.com  NOTABLE NAMES: This carver of Mt. Rushmore also sculpted the apostles outside NYC's cathedral of St. John the Divine  WORLD CITIES: The tomb of Dom...
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OTIS (Odd Things I've Seen): Barnum Museum  Dec 17, 2007 ... After all, you'd have to be big to bring the world to the world. ... The Barnum Museum sticks out in Bridgeport like Connecticut doesn't in the .... And when I say miniature, I mean its thousands of individual components are tiny. ... [UPDATE: Since writing this post, the general consensus is that the mummy is...
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Glastonbury, Connecticut - Wikipedia  Glastonbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, formally founded in 1693 ... Glastonbury has one of the largest state forests, Meshomasic State Forest, .... The ties have not been completely broken: the oldest continuously operating ... War, several homes were used to hold classes from Yale University.
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Ricky Ly of TastyChomps.com | Tasty Chomps' Orlando | Page 33  May 12, 2010 ... Giant travel photos of ancient cities in the Middle East adorn the walls .... The wind howled, testing our Florida skin against the New York icy .... Recently named Best Seafood Restaurant in the Nation by a ..... Chinatown of New York City. ... Nearby is a statue of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher...