Essex Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Essex, Massachusetts)

Essex Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Essex, Massachusetts)

Dedicated on 30 May 1905, this monument depicts a soldier at parade rest. After repeated calls for a monument to Essex's Union troops, the O.H.P. Sargent Post of the Women's Relief Corps conducted a successful campaign to fund its creation and erection. While the statue's plinth was designed by Ames & Snow of Lynn, the sculpture was likely provided by the Smith Granite Company, of Westerly, Rhode Island, a company who specialized in mass-producing infantrymen statues of this type.

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English

Site

1996

1977-01-01

9.5m x 0m x 0m

current,42.6315431,-70.7832013;

Free, next to town hall, not visible from street due to building works

Ames & Snow Co. of Lynn Masschustes

USA

Essex Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

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Statue - standing soldier

Smith Granite Company

Fairs and small donations, led by Mary A. Kimball from the O. H. P. Sargent Women's Relief Corps Post 114. The WRC was a female auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, which was a Unionist Civil War veteran's organisation, which was heavily involved in memorialisation.

Mostly Westerly granite, lower base made from Rockport granite

To the loyal sons of Essex who fought for the Union 1861-1865, Erected through the efforts of WRC Co. 114.

2190

Massachusetts

Essex

Union

Essex