Founder's Monument -- Watertown, Massachusetts

Statue of Richard Saltonstall.

The scene below depicts my ancestor, Roger Clap, soon after he landed, being greeted by the local Indians. This scene is on the Watertown Seal. Roger also has a memorial seen HERE.

Henry H. Kitson, Sculptor

FOUNDERS

Thomas Arnold
John Ball
John Barnard
Ellis Barron
William Barsham
Michael Barstow
Thomas Bartlett
Richard Beach
Richard Beers
Joseph Bemis
John Benjamin
John Bigelow
Nathaniel Biscoe
Edmund Bloys
William Bond
Nathaniel Bowman
Thomas Boylston
Henry Bright, Jr.
Thomas Brooks
Abraham Browne
Richard Browne
George Bullard
Charles Chadwick
Lambert Chenery
Garrett Church
Hugh Clarke
John Coolidge
Benjamin Crispe
Henry Curtis
James Cutler
Richard Cutting
Robert Daniel 
Edward Dix
John Doggett
John Eaton
John Eddy
Simon Eire
John Eliot
Robert Feake
John Firmin
David Fiske
John Fiske
Nathan Fiske
Thomas Flagg
John Flemming
Samuel Freeman
Richard Gale
Edward Garfield
John Goss
Christopher Grant
Nicholas Guy
William Hagar
William Hammond
Robert Harrington
Thomas Hastings
Justinian Holden
Ephraim Child
Samuel Hosier

Edward How
Miles Ives
William Jennison
Robert Keyes
Richard Kimball
William Knapp
John Knight
Edward Lamb
John Lawrence
Edmund Lewis
John Livermore
John Lovering
Hugh Mason

John Masters

Thomas Mayhew

Isaac Mixer

Joseph Morse

George Munnings

Jeremiah Norcross

John Oldham

John Page

William Paine

George Parkhurst

Daniel Patrick
Anthony Peirce
Brian Pendleton
Thomas Philbrick

Rev. George Phillips
John Prescott
John Reynolds
John Richardson
Thomas Rogers
Sir Richard Saltonstall
Richard Sawtell
Robert Sanderson
Robert Seely
William Shattuck
John Sherman
John Smith
John Spring
Isaac Stearns
John Stimson
Gregory Stone
Simon Stone
Samuel Stratton
Joseph Tainter
Gregory Taylor
Samuel Thatcher
John Traine
Martin Underwood
Richard Waite
John Warren
Roger Wellington
John Wetherell
Timothy Wheeler
John White
John Whitney
Richard Woodward

Kittredge Park, Lowell, Massachusetts

 Kittredge Park, Lowell, Massachusetts

Many old timers of Lowell remember when Sen. Paul Tsongas planted, watered and tended to the gardens. He lived just a few streets away on Mansur Street.

Update: Recently Eileen, of the Lowell Doughboys and more... blog wrote a post about Paul Edward Kittredge, for whom this park is named after. Please read HERE.

Acton Library, Acton, Massachusetts -- History and Genealogy Room

Acton Memorial Library 1889

Built as a memorial to those who died in the Civil War.

Addition at the entire back and side. The circular addition is a teen reading area.

Photo of original library.

The locked cubicles is where the genealogy material is kept. 

Massachusetts "Tan Books" may be seen (births, marriages, and deaths to 1850).

Quite a large Civil War exhibit, with a lot about Acton soldiers.

*See flyer about the Library's Civil War website, at the bottom .

Microfilm Room (above)

Original fireplace and front door at left.

Below is a shot looking out the front entrance, next to door.

Excellent site to search for your ancestors if they were from Acton and fought in the Civil War. The records for 374 men include: Index to Soldiers and Sailors, Regimental histories, Pension Files, G.A.R records, Obituaries, Veteran grave markers (with photos), Documents and Manuscripts, and Extensive Bibliography.

http://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org/civilwar/index.html

Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- Tombstone Tuesday

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens was cremated and is buried on his property.

If you would like to see more of his house (above), studio and fabulous gardens, please see my Blog, from earlier today at Home, Gardens and Studios of Augustus Saint- Gaudens.

Home, Gardens and Studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens

View from the Studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Cornish, New Hampshire, looking towards Mt. Ascutney in Vermont.

Side view of the house and side porch.

 

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
 http://www.nps.gov/saga/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Gaudens_National_Historic_Site

 Front of the studio.

Outside the studio, above and below.

"Diana"in the Studio.

PBS Documentary - Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture - The Diana (4.07 minute tape)

"The Puritan" Deacon Samuel Chapin

(the original is in Springfield, MA.)

Shaw Memorial (above), the original is in Boston.

Two small turtle fountains.

There is a 50 minute YouTube report about Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New Yorker, and His Metropolitan Museum Art, on view at the Met June 30-November 15, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_P0jG6K8U

Franklin Pierce Homestead, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Franklin Pierce Homestead

Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Pierce Homestead

The Pierce Homestead was built in

1804 by Benjamin Pierce, a general

in the American Revolution, twice

governor of New Hampshire (1827-28),

1829-30), and father of

Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the

United States (1853-57). Franklin

Pierce was born in Hillsboro November

23, 1804 and the family occupied

this dwelling shortly thereafter.

Built in 1804 by Benjamin Pierce

Officer in the Revolutionary War

and Governor of New Hampshire in 1827-1829

Birthplace of his son Franklin Pierce

Fourteenth President of

The United States

Restored and Given to the

State of New Hampshire in 1925

as a Memorial to

Major Frederick A. Kendall

U. S. Army 1861 - 1884 and

Virginia Hutchinson Kendall

by their son

Captain Hayward Kendall  U. A. Army 1917-1919