Maddonna of the Trail in Vandalia, Illinois
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YoSam.
N 38° 57.649 W 089° 05.668
16S E 318527 N 4314514
Pioneer women involved in the human migration west are honored here.
Waymark Code: WMZHVM
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 11/16/2018
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Statue Erected by: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
County of Statue: Fayette County.
Location of Statue: W. Gallatin St. & S. 4th St.,1st Capitol lawn, Vandalia.
Description of Statue:
A depiction of a woman in pioneer clothing, with long, shin-length dress, laced boots, a sunbonnet with flowers, and a scarf tied around her neck. In the crook of her proper left arm she holds an infant wearing a short-sleeved shirt and lightly wrapped in a blanket. In her proper right hand is the top of the barrel of a rifle, the butt of which rests on the ground at her side. She appears to be using the rifle as a walking stick. She steps forward on her proper left leg. On her proper right is a small boy, walking while holding the fabric of his mother's dress. He wears a short-sleeved shirt, knee pants, suspenders, and calf-high boots. On the plinth at the figures' feet is a bed of prickly pear cactus and large leaves. The sculpture rests on a square base.
Text on Statue Base:
Front Base:
MADDONNA OF THE TRAIL
N. S. D. A. R.
of the
PIONEER MOTHERS
of the
COVERED WAGON DAYSEast Side Base:
"The Cumberland Road
built by
The Federal Government
Was Authorized by Congress
and Approved by
Thomas Jefferson in 1806.
Vandalia Marks the
Western Turminius"West Side Base:
"At Vandalia Abraham Lincoln,
member of the Illinois Legislature
First Formulated
Those High Principles
of Freedom and Justice
which gave the slaves
a Liberator,
The Union a Saviour."Back Base:
THE NATIONAL
OLD TRAILS ROAD