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Maine Civil War Monuments

Ellsworth

Town/County:  Ellsworth/Hancock  
Location: Route 1  
Type:  Soldier Materials: Blue Hill granite
Date Erected: 1887 Date Dedicated: July 4, 1887
Maker/Sculptor: Howard of Dunn & Howard, Ellsworth Source of Funding: $3,000: Citizens of Ellsworth
Principal inscriptions: In Honor of the Men/of/Ellsworth/Who Served and to the/Memory of those who fell on land and sea/In the War for the Union/Their Grateful Townsmen Have Raised This Memorial/1861 1887
References: Ellsworth American, July 7, 1887
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Photograph by B.F. Joy, c.1890

Post card, 1922