The New England Settlers - Worcester, MA
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The New England Settlers Monument is located at the intersection of Highland Street and Park Avenue in Worcester.
Waymark Code: WMD2ME
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 11/10/2011
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The New England Settlers monument was erected with a $75,000 bequest from the estate of Ellen Rogers-Kennedy. The memorial is a tribute to the early settlers of Massachusetts. The memorial is 26' high and 36' long. It was sculpted by Maurice Sterne and dedicated on December 6, 1929. It depicts early New England settlers engaged in a variety of occupations.
At the top of a large stone base is a bronze sculpture of a pair of settlers. A man on the viewers right and a woman on the left are walking on either side and holding the handles of a central plow. The woman is carrying grain in the a fold of her dress. The man is cradling a sack in his left hand.
The stone base is carved with deep reliefs in sixteen separate panels depicting settlers engaging in various activities.
A women is standing over a resting man.
A man is digging in the ground.
A man and a woman are in a row boat.
A woman is mopping a floor.
A woman is examining a man's arm.
A woman is making cloth.
A man and woman are fishing.
A man is working with wood.
A man and a woman are building a structure.
A man is reading a book to a child.
A man and a woman are preparing to eat a meal.
A woman is sewing.
A man and a woman are working a churn.
A hunter is holding a musket.
A woman and child watch as a man bends something by a fire.
A carver is holding a tool by a chain.
A plaque at the back of the bronze sculpture, at the bottom is inscribed:
THE ROGERS-KENNEDY MEMORIAL
THIS MONUMANT IS A GIFT OF
ELLEN ROGERS KENNEDY
AND
WALTER SCOTT GUYLLAN KENNEDY
IS A TRIBUTE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH