An effort to catalog, photograph, research and promote the history of the Bay State’s Civil War monuments.
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The Massachusetts Civil War Monuments Project is an informal, collaborative effort to catalog, photograph and research the Civil War monuments in each Massachusetts town.
Townsend
Location: Town Common, Main Street and School Street, TownsendCoordinates: 42°40’01.1″N 71°42’18.9″WDate dedicated: May 30, 1932Sculptor/architect/contractor: Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, sculptor; Gorham Manufacturing Co., casting and construction Townsend’s Civil War monument is one of several copies of a splendid sculpture known as “The Volunteer” by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. The first version of “The Volunteer” was…
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