Here are some more Vintage Pictures, this time of Statues in Lexington Massachusetts. Also dated August 31, 1973 our photographer traveled from Boston to Lexington, focusing on the sites of the opening shots of the American Revolution in 1775.
A statue of a Cannon in Lexington
I am not able to find much information about this specific statue. There seems to be plenty of real cannon in the area setup as public displays. Based on it’s location, lack of a plaque (in the picture,) and the rather slip-shod grass trimming around it, that not much was thought of the statue in general in 1973.
The famous Minute Man Statue in Lexington
Our second statue is locally known as the “Lexington Minuteman” statue. But it is actually of militiaman Captain John Parker who was leader of the Lexington Militia in 1775 during that first battle with the British on April 19th.
He is famously quoted as saying; “Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” He died a mere five months after this battle, a victim of the incurable disease (at that time) Tuberculosis.
The statue was sculpted by famed public monument sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson and erected at Lexington Battle Green in 1900.
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