Historic Somerville
Preserving the Past for Our Future
Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145
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- Mission
- About Us
- Online Membership Renewal
- Lecture and Event Tickets
- HS Fall 2019 Lectures and Events
- Pictures and Past Events
- HS SPRING 2019 LECTURES
- JANUARY 3RD & 5TH, 2019: Byron DeLear
- 243rd flag raising 2019
- Lt. Col Enoch Woodhouse
- 2019 Revere and our Colonial Fair
- May Preservation Month Activities
- May 12th_East Somerville_s Tucked Away Architectural Treasures
- May 23rd_Conservation Project Talk and Tour of the Milk Row Cemetery
- June 9th_Interpreting the Past for the Present. The Evolution of Boston’s Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
- Prospect Hill Tower, Milk Row Cemetery and Powder House 2019 Tour Schedules
- Winter Holiday Party-2018
- Fall 2018 Events and Lectures
- Cresap's Rifles
- Docent Tours Summer-Fall 2018
- Ghosts of Somerville 2018
- The Yankee Division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive WWI
- Veterans Day Memorial Parade 2018
- Veterans Day 2018
- SUMMER 2018 EVENTS
- Ed Gordon: Top Ten Favorite Historic Residences in Somerville
- An Afternoon with Kevin Dua
- Spring 2018 Events
- 242nd Flag Raising
- Ghosts of Somerville
- Veterans Day 2017
- HS Lecture: The Yankee Division, Dan Breen
- Winter Holiday Party
- Docent Tours Fall 2017
- Spring 2017 Lecture Series and Events
- Bulfinch and the Barrell Mansion, Joseph Cornish
- Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund
- Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill - Byron DeLear
- Spring 2016 lectures
- The Jews of Somerville and greater Boston
- Milk Row Cemetery Tour
- The History of Somerville Lumber
- Fall 2015 Local History Lectures
- From Smyrna to Belleau Wood and the Second Battle of the Marne by Dr. Daniel Breen
- Charles Williams Jr.: Somerville's Connection to the First Telephone
- Somerville Past and Present: Images of a Century of Change by Jeff Myers
- Boston and the Civil War; Hub of the Second Revolution
- My Life in the First African-American Unit of the Air Force
- History of Agriculture in Somerville
- Art Glass of the Union Glass Co.
- Fall 2014 Events
- Friday, Dec. 12th, 7-9PM, Winter Holiday Party
- Tuesday, November 11th, 2:30PM, Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony
- Sunday, Nov. 9th, 2-4PM, talk by Prof. Dan Breen, The March to Laurel Hill in 1864
- Saturday, Oct.25th 3-5PM, Mr. Allen's Tidal Powered Rope Walk
- Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30PM, Milk Row Cemetery Docent-led Tour
- Ghosts of Somerville 2014 pictures!
- Milk Row Cemetery Docent Led Tours
- Mystic River Roundtable with Richard Beinecke
- Defiance of the Patriots lecture
- 2013 Holiday Wreath Donations
- The Spirit of Somerville: Booksigning by Eugene Brune
- Struggles Unceasing: The POW Experience of the Somerville Guard in the Civil War
- Ghosts of Somerville 2013
- For Better or Worse: 19th C. Tales Along the Middlesex and Washington, D.C. Canals
- The Better Homes Movement in Somerville, 1922-1930
- Workshop: Repair Historic Windows
- The Somerville I Didn't Know: The Influence of Africans, West-Indians and African Americans on Somerville, 1630-1860.
- May is Preservation Month - Events 2013
- The Mystic River: March 24th Lecture
- Raising the Roof and More
- First Flag - January 1st, 2013
- The Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers
- Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds
- Militia versus Regulars in America's War of Independence
- The Menace of the Three Decker
- Patriots Day 2012
- Lafayette in Somerville (Charlestown Beyond the Neck) 1824-25
- 236th Raising of the Grand Union Flag 2012
- April 18th, 2011 Patriots Day Colonial Fair at Foss Park
- 2010: Paul Revere and Colonial Fair in Somerville's Foss Park
- Ghosts of Somerville Open Cemetery Tour 2010
- Ghosts of Somerville 2009
- Ghost of Somerville 2006-08
- Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25
- Reenactments
- Costumes for 1776
- The Civil War Monument
- Donate
- Preservation
- 2018-19 Help Keep Somerville History Alive! Advocacy Opportunities
- Links Related to Somerville and History
Spanish War Monument
This monument was created by artist Raymond Porter in 1929. The plaque reads as follows:
IN HONOR OF THE VOLUNTEERS FROM SOMERVILLE WHO SERVED ON LAND AND SEA IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN, THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION AND THE CHINA RELIEF EXPEDITION 1898-1902
ERECTED 1929
THE SPANISH WAR MONUMENT sits in front of Central Hill Library
Close-ups of the soldier of the monument on the left and the sailor on the right.
Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145
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