Lincoln Monument(s) in Hartford??? This collection of monuments were unveiled in The project was funded by the Lincoln Financial Group ($500,000). The Connecticut Riverfront Recapture championed this project to transform this crime ridden area into a beautiful park with 15 sculptures of Abraham Lincoln, which is visited by over 900,000 people a year. Lincoln Financial withdrew its financial support of a Lincoln Museum in Indiana…..citizens of Indiana are not happy (the museum had to close). The purpose of these monuments is to remind park goers of Lincoln’s themes of freedom and equality. The sculptures have been a rebirth for the area.

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!" was how Abraham Lincoln greeted Connecticut-born author Harriet Beecher Stowe when the two met in Bruno Lucchesi's sculpture at Riverfront Plaza captures that moment.

Union--the Peter Chinni sculpture installed on the Founders Bridge--is one of several that interprets a concept associated with Abraham Lincoln. Mayor Melody Currey says it symbolizes, too, how the "river is bringing together" Hartford and East Hartford.

The Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk in Hartford features two statues by Preston Jackson, one of America's most renowned African-American sculptors. This statue, located on the East Hartford side of the Founders Bridge, is called: Emancipation.

Each sculpture has a plaque that explains its meaning. The Circuit Rider in East Hartford's Great River Park, a life-sized horse sculpture by Peter Busby, commemorates Lincoln's travels as a young attorney throughout Illinois' Eighth Judicial Circuit.

Carole Eisner created Transcontinental, a sculpture in Great River Park that honors Abraham Lincoln's dream that a railroad would one day link America's coasts. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, four years after Lincoln's assassination.

In "A Welcome Conversation," located on the upper walking path in East Hartford's Great River Park, sculptor Don Sottile captures Abraham Lincoln as a young storyteller in his early 20s. Lincoln became well known for his wit and his work ethic.

"Toward Union Lines," located on the Hartford side of the Connecticut River along the Riverwalk near Riverfront Plaza, is the second of two pieces contributed to Hartford's new sculpture walk by Chicago-based African-American sculptor Preston Jackson.

More mosaic than sculpture, "Secession," which hangs along the Riverwalk on the Hartford side of the river, was created by Hartford-area teens working with Virginia Seeley in the Greater Hartford Arts Council's Neighborhood Studios program.

Howard Fromson's sculpture installation at Riverfront Plaza, Tete a Tete, recalls Abraham Lincoln's willingness to sit down with ordinary citizens and to grant clemency to those who sought his mercy.

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Iwo Jima New Britain, CT Location: Ella Grasso Boulevard Erected: February 23, 1945 (50th anniversary of Iwo Jima flag raising) On Veteran’s Day 1996, this site was officially designated as the National Iwo Jima Memorial Monument The monument was conceived and designed by Dr. George Gentile, the founder of the Iwo Jima Survivors Association, Inc. The Newington-based Association's members raised the funds to build the monument. An eternal flame burns 365 days a year, funded by CT Natural Gas. The six marines who raised the flag are immortalized in the statue, but it is dedicated to all the American soldiers that died in World War Two. This statue was based on the photograph, not the statue in DC. There does not seem to be any controversy surrounding the New Britain memorial, but there is some controversy about the original photograph, entitled “Gung Ho” because it was not a spontaneous moment, but a photo of a different group of six marines putting up a second, larger flag.

Belvedere Area WWII Monument New Britain, CT Location: Stanley Street/Hillcrest Avenue/Campbell Square Information: Pvt. John Campbell was the first New Britain serviceman to be killed in WWII. He was killed at Clark Field in the Philippines on December 8, 1941 in the first Japanese “sneak” attack on the island. The Campbell Square Honor Roll, at Stanley Street Hillcrest Avenue, memorializes servicemen who died in WWII and were residents of the Belvedere Area of New Britain when they went into service. There are no known controversies and very little other information available about this monument.