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The Minute Man [note 1] is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts. It was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research, and was originally intended to be made of stone. The medium was switched to bronze and it was cast from ten Civil War-era cannons appropriated by ...
In his 1837 poem, "Concord Hymn", thinker and author Ralph Waldo Emerson immortalized the North Bridge Fight as "the shot heard round the world". At this site also stands Daniel Chester French's well-known The Minute Man statue of 1874. [2] Across the North Bridge, opposite The Minute Man statue is the Obelisk Monument. The Obelisk is believed ...
The Minute Man statue is still the symbol of the National Guard, featured prominently on its seals. It was also the symbol of the former Boston and Maine Railroad. Minutemen are portrayed in "Paul Revere's Ride", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although historians criticize the work as being historically inaccurate, Longfellow understood ...
French was born on April 20, 1850, in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of Anne Richardson (1811–1856), daughter of William Merchant Richardson (1774–1838), chief justice of New Hampshire, and of Henry Flagg French (1813–1885), a lawyer, judge, Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary, and author of a book that described the French drain. [1]
In three seasons (1974, 1978 and 1980) they played in the AIAW Women's College World Series. [14] From 1980 through the 2013 season, the team was led by head coach Elaine Sortino. Since its conversion from the AIAW to the NCAA, UMass has played in 21 NCAA tournaments, and has made three trips to the College World Series (1992, 1997, and 1998).
The statue known as The Lexington Minuteman (1900) was originally meant to represent the common Minuteman, but has now commonly become accepted as symbolizing Parker. It is by Henry Hudson Kitson and it stands at the town green of Lexington, Massachusetts.
The statue was the first public work of sculptor Daniel Chester French, best known for his 1920 statue, "Abraham Lincoln", in the Lincoln Memorial. Although commissioned to sculpt a generic provincial soldier, French was inspired by the story of Isaac Davis and modeled the facial features of his statue after photographs of Isaac Davis's ...
Minuteman statue at Lexington At approximately 2:00 a.m., one of these riders reached John Trull's house and without dismounting, called out that the Regulars were on the march. Ancient tradition has it that the galloping horseman depicted on the Tewksbury Town Seal is this rider.