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The Minute Man [note 1] is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts. It was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research, and was originally intended to be made of stone. The medium was switched to bronze and it was cast from ten Civil War-era cannons appropriated by ...
At this site also stands Daniel Chester French's well-known The Minute Man statue of 1874. [2] Across the North Bridge, opposite The Minute Man statue is the Obelisk Monument. The Obelisk is believed to be the country's first memorial to its war casualties.
The Minute Man statue is still the symbol of the National Guard, featured prominently on its seals. It was also the symbol of the former Boston and Maine Railroad. Minutemen are portrayed in "Paul Revere's Ride", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although historians criticize the work as being historically inaccurate, Longfellow understood ...
The Minute Man at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, (1874) Bust of Major General William Francis Bartlett at Memorial Hall at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1881) Statue of John Harvard at Harvard Yard at Harvard University (1884) Lewis Cass, National Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. (1889)
After completing The Minute Man in 1875, French studied sculpture in Florence, Italy, for a year, during part of which he worked out of Thomas Ball's studio. [4] French's education ended and career began in 1876 when he accepted a contract to produce a set of statues for the United States Post Office Department. [5]
The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls — gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble — indicates colonial militia members fired them at British forces on April 19, 1775.
The statue known as The Lexington Minuteman (1900) was originally meant to represent the common Minuteman, but has now commonly become accepted as symbolizing Parker. It is by Henry Hudson Kitson and it stands at the town green of Lexington, Massachusetts.
The statue is 11 feet tall, weighs more than 500 pounds and stands 278 feet off the ground. Independent Man wasn’t the first choice. When the State House was being built in 1895, the Rhode ...