Hartford AOH held its annual wreath laying ceremony on Sunday at the Irish Canal Workers Memorial in Windsor Locks, Conn. Hartford AOH conducted the fund raising for the memorial, which was dedicated in 2022. The memorial honors 400 immigrant laborers who left their homeland in Ireland and came to the area between May 1827 and November 1829 to build the canal bypassing the Enfield Rapids. In particular, it honors those canal workers and family members that are buried in an unmarked cemetery that is located about 100 yards and across the canal from where the memorial is placed.
