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Falls Village Veterans Monument

 
 
Falls Village Veterans Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 15, 2011
1. Falls Village Veterans Monument
Inscription.
[ stone on left ]
Dedicated to The Honor
Of Those of Our Town
Who Served and Sacrificed
In Love of Our Country

[ bronze plaque ]
World War I
Alfred C. Abbe • Harry Beebe • Harry S. Blake • Alfred J. Brown • Carroll W. Burkett • Louis Conti • * Howard B. Egleston • Alice Goodwin • Frederick C. Howe • James Perry • Nicholas L. Rogers • Clarence E. Sanford • Andreo Sondrini • Antonio Turra
World War II
Aldo Alquesta • Robert G. Alquesta • Carroll Bailey • James Bailey • Harold K. Beebe • Earl A. Betz • James H. Blodgett • Miles L. Blodgett • Guido Castagna • William Castagna • Gino J. Cortesi • Peter Cortesi • Doris Day • George L. Dickinson • Harold L. Dickinson • William L. Dickinson • Allen K. Eastman • Edward Eglen • William J. Elliott • George R. Fitch • Samuel J. Graham, Jr. • David K. Hamzy • Richard T. Hamzy • Bruno C. Heinz, Jr. • Margaret Jacobs • Frederick Kroehle, Jr. • William F. Landon • Arthur N. Lockwood • Merrill L. Lockwood • Charles H. Lucas • Fritz Magg • John E. Mazur • Robert S. Mazur • William H. Merriman • William C. Michels, Jr. • Emilio Rocco • Wayne M. Scranton • Henry Smith • Earl Sprague
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• Nicholas M. Tompkins • Frank Treadway • Irving Treadway • George W. Tuttle • Sven H. Willadsen
Korean War
Alan R. Becker • John L. Belcher • Gino J. Cortesi • George R. Fitch • Gordon E. Harmon • Joseph W. Jacobs • Leslie E. Jacobs • John P. Kroehle • Earl L. Long • Peter E. Sjogren • James J. Sullivan • Stephen J. Sullivan
Vietnam War
Warren J. Blass, Jr. • William S. Blass, Jr. • Michael Bornemann • Harry W. Boyles, Jr. • Ronald J. Boyles • Terry V. Brinton • Gino J. Cortesi • Paul J. Cortesi III • Peter Cortesi, Jr. • Wallis E. Coutermash • David G. Dodge • Robert H. Dodge • Kevin J. Downey • Michael Dunn • Gilbert G. Fitch • James R. Gustafson • Frederic K. Harmon • Peter L. Hawley • William J. Holcomb • Peter C. Howe • * Edward S. Krukowski • Forbes E. Loverin • Ronald W. Loverin • Paul J. Marston, Jr. • Peter M. Marston • Thomas J. Monahan, Jr. • Clifford O'Neil • William Parmalee • Robert I. Patterson • Wayne R. Patterson • Peter W. Pixley • Brian Reymers • Steven E. Schneider • Thomas D. Schneider • Ellery W. Sinclair • J. Sheldon Sinclair • Edward R. Silvernale, Jr. • Arthur T. Strong • Stephen J. Sullivan • John W.
Falls Village Veterans Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 15, 2011
2. Falls Village Veterans Monument
stone on left
Topping, Jr. • Kenneth R. Wildey • Terry R. Wildey • Joseph C. Wright
Panama
Richard P. Alther • Douglas W. Chapman • Todd R. Consolini
Persian Gulf
Douglas W. Chapman • Jeffrey S. Jasmine • Jean A. Stahovec

 
Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II.
 
Location. 41° 57.303′ N, 73° 21.872′ W. Monument is in Canaan in Northwest Hills Region, Connecticut. It is in Falls Village. It is at the intersection of Main Street and Railroad Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. Touch for map. Monument is at or near this postal address: 117 Main St, Canaan CT 06018, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial monument is in the Berkshire Foothills and in the Litchfield Hills. It is also in the American Northeast and in New England. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Litchfield County and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Falls Village Veterans Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 15, 2011
3. Falls Village Veterans Monument
bronze plaque on right


Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Canaan (a few steps from this marker); First Forge (approx. 2 miles away); Barnum & Richardson Foundry (approx. 2 miles away); Nation's First Public Library (approx. 3½ miles away); Salisbury Academy (approx. 3½ miles away); Salisbury (approx. 3½ miles away); The Old Burying Ground (approx. 3½ miles away); Salisbury Veterans Monument (approx. 3½ miles away).
 
Falls Village Veterans Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 15, 2011
4. Falls Village Veterans Monument
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on May 19, 2026. It was originally submitted on April 20, 2011, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut. This page has been viewed 2,032 times since then and 34 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 20, 2011, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
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