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Maine Civil War Monuments

Boothbay

Town/County:  Boothbay/Lincoln  
Location: Route 27  
Type:  Soldier  Materials: Granite
Date Erected: 1879 Date Dedicated: October 1, 1879
Maker/Sculptor: Hallowell Granite Company, Hallowell, Maine Source of Funding:  $2,000 from the Town of Boothbay
Principal inscriptions: Erected/In Memory Of The/256 Soldiers & Sailors/From/Boothbay/In The/War of 1861-65/"The World Can Never Forget/What They Did"/1879 Hallowell Granite Co./Hallowell, Me.
References: Francis Byron Greene, History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, p. 160.;
Boothbay Register, October 4, 1879; April 22, 1993; April 29, 1993
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Post card, c.1910