[1] The cemetery is located at the intersection of Broad Street and Jefferson Avenue.
The cemetery features the Comrades Monument, which was erected c. 1900 by the Grand Army of the Republic to honor Civil War veterans buried in the cemetery.
The monument is about 23 feet tall and features a life-sized figure of a Civil War soldier on top of a pedestal.
The cemetery has been a place of burial for leading citizens of New London.
It is the resting place for a governor of Connecticut, two United States senators, ten members of Congress, a member of the Continental Congress and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.