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Pequot Swamp Monument. Southport, Conn.
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"The Swamp Fight Monument, dedicated in 1904 by the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars, today sits on a small triangle of land along the Post Road, near a Peoples’ United Bank branch and a popular Dunkin’ Donuts outlet. A large stone monument bears the simple inscription on its east face that “the great Swamp Fight here ended the Pequot War.” This inscription is much more sedate than some of the historical texts written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which tended to describe the Native Americans with less-than-glowing terms. The only other marking on the stone lists its dedication date. Much of the land where the Swamp Fight took place has been lost to development, including the construction of Interstate 95. Driving along the interstate just past exit 19, you can see marsh plants rising above the small surviving portions of the swamp." I found this information at http://ctmonuments.net/2009/03/swamp-fight-monuments-fairfield/#:~:text=Two monuments in Fairfield commemorate, England and Long Island Sound.
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