![]() In 1902 the Great Fire of Houlton destroyed a large portion of the town centre, a section of the burned area was later used for the construction of a park, the monument, and the Cary Library. Located at Monument Park in the Town of Houlton, this Union Soldiers' monument is dedicated to the soldiers and sailors of Houlton who lost their lives during the American Civil War. ![]() Houlton Civil War Monument (Florenceville-Bristol, Maine) Description: While no official dedication is recorded, the monument had been placed within the cemetery by September 1871 its enigmatic nature is captured in Charlotte Fiske Bates's 1879 poem 'The Sphinx at Mount Auburn'. It commemorates all those who fell in the Civil War, and is noticeable for the unusually emancipatory tone of its inscription, which reads: "American Union Preserved African Slavery Destroyed By the Uprising of a Great People By the Blood of Fallen Heroes'. military medallion and a bald eagle on the headdress, thus representing the future of shared African and American culture envisaged by Bigelow. Made of Hallowell granite and 15 feet in length, the Sphinx, as in Egyptian mythology, appears as a reclining lion with woman's head, but is here presented with the additional features of a U.S. ![]() Jacob Bigelow, the architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in which it is placed, the Sphinx was made by Martin Milmore in collaboration with his brother, Joseph. Sphinx (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Description:Ĭommissioned and conceptualised by Dr.
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