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| Maine Civil War Monuments | |
Saco |
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| Town/County: Saco/York | Name: Victory Crowning The Returned Soldier |
| Location: Eastman Park, Main Street, Elm Street and North Street | |
| Type: Soldier | Materials: Maine granite base, sheet copper with bronze finish statue |
| Date Erected: | Date Dedicated: May 30, 1907 |
| 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 | Source of Funding: $2,600: $2,000 from an anonymous donor, $600 from the City of Saco |
| 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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Current view
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Post card, c.1910 |
