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. | |
Current View |
Post Card, c. 1910 |