Monument to Dr. John W. Richmond, Stonington CT

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Monument to Dr. John W. Richmond, Stonington CT

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.267

Scope and Content

"Monument to Dr. John W. Richmond (1775-1857) of Rhode Island in small private cemetery, North Road, Stonington Conn., who bought the land and left a small fund for its maintenance as he was 'unwilling that the remains of himself and his family should be disgraced by being a part of the common earth of a repudiating state'-meaning Rhode Island and the repudiation of her war debts." It is located at North Main and Palmer Streets. Copy on slide 52-1 taken by Ingrid Fedderson Index card done by Jack Fix

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection