Historic Somerville

 

Preserving the Past for Our Future 

Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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  • Mission
  • About Us
    • Membership form 2020
    • Meeting Location/Contact Us
  • Online Membership Renewal
  • Lecture and Event Tickets
  • HS Spring 2020 Lectures and Events
  • Pictures and Past Events
    • HS Fall 2019 Lectures and Events
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2019 Photos
    • Henry Hansen and the Battle of Iwo Jim by Dan Breen
    • Veterans Day Commemorative Event 2019
    • Winter Holiday Party 2019
    • 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
    • Reading the Monument
    • West Side of the Monument
    • The South Side of the Monument
    • East Side of the Monument
    • North Side of the Monument
    • The Obelisk
  • Donate
    • The advantages of repairing rather than replacing your historic windows
  • Preservation
  • 2018-19 Help Keep Somerville History Alive! Advocacy Opportunities
  • Links Related to Somerville and History
    • The Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill
    • The Round House
    • The Round House Interior - 1950s-1960s.
    • Greek Immigration to Somerville
    • Soldiers and Sailors Monument
    • American Legion and Vietnam Memorials
    • Spanish War Monument

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.


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Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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