![]() The feeling was so strong that litigation ensued. members had maneuvered events by turning up in large numbers at the adjourned session when light attendance was expected, and thus pushed through their measure in an illegal manner. One faction in the community contended that G.A.R. Then, on December 5, 1882, an adjourned session of the annual town meeting appointed a committee to proceed with a monument, and appropriated $50,000 for its construction. There was talk about the desirability of a memorial hall or a free public library in preference to a monument. No one did anything about raising funds for the monument. On Memorial Day 1879 the site was dedicated with due ceremony. The G.A.R.'s interest developed a ground swell of public opinion of sufficient strength to cause the city's Common Council to assign a section of the New Haven Green to the Admiral Foote Post as a site for the memorial. ![]() Dedication Day was a tremendous event, setting a crowd record for the state that may still stand of perhaps 20,000 people marching in the parade before spectators estimated to number 100,000 to 175,000.ĭiscussion about erecting a war memorial gained momentum in New Haven among members of the Admiral Foote Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1878. ![]() The long process of organizing to erect the monument took many years. SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, East Rock Park, New Haven, is significant historically because it is a tangible symbol of the honor and respect tendered to its soldiers of several wars by the City of New Haven. ![]()
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