Mountain_Grove_Cemetery,_Bridgeport
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport
Rural cemetery in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States, was laid out in 1849 in the then popular 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 himself is buried there.[1] "The original grounds were surveyed and designed by Horatio Stone and Mr. [John] Moody," the cemetery's first superintendent.[2]