Saco

 
County: York Source of Funding: $2,600: $2,000 from an anonymous donor, $600 from the City of Saco
Location: Eastman Park, Main St, Elm St, North St Maker/Sculptor: The W. H. Mullins Company, Salem, Ohio was the source of the statue, which is identical to the one made by the Mullins Company for Mercer, Pennsylvania
Type: Soldier Materials: Maine Granite base, sheet copper with bronze finish statue
Date Erected: Unknown Date Dedicated: May 30, 1907
Principal Inscriptions: "Erected to the Memory of the Country's Defenders 1775-1865"
References: Biddeford Weekly Journal, May 31, 1907; The Blue and the Gray, Statues in Stamped Copper and Bronze, W. H. Mullins Company, Salem, Ohio, 1913, pp. 40, 63; Ruth L. Silliker, The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah, Camden, 1985, pp. 15-16.

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Post Card, c. 1910

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