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Mountain Grove Cemetery

Bridgeport, Italy

Mountain Grove Cemetery

Mountain Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It was laid out in 1849 in the rural cemetery design in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city. The cemetery was founded by showman P. T. Barnum, who is buried there. "The original grounds

were surveyed and designed by Horatio Stone and Mr. [John] Moody," the cemetery's first superintendent.

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