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Nero Hawley Gravesite, Riverside Cemetery

Historic site · Trumbull, Connecticut

An official Connecticut Freedom Trail site marking the grave of Nero Hawley (1742-1817), who won his freedom serving in the Continental Army and became a Trumbull brickmaker. The gravestone platform is inscribed with the location of the clay pits where he made bricks.

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Daniels Farm Road (off Route 127, about one mile from Merritt Parkway Exits 49 & 50), Trumbull, CT 06611

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