Portland- Monument Square

 
County: Cumberland Source of Funding: Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association
Location: Monument Square, Congress St Maker/Sculptor: Granite base designed by Richard Morris Hunt of New York; bronze sculpture by Franklin Simmons
Type: Sculpture Materials: Granite, Bronze
Date Erected: 1889-91 Date Dedicated: October 28, 1891
Principal Inscriptions: Portland/To Her Sons Who Died/For The Union
References: William B. Jordan, Jr., Our Lady of Victories, A History of the Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Portland, 1998

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Post Card c. 1939

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