Civil War Monument-Fountain - Ashfield, MA
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Ashfield's first Civil War monument is located in the Center Hill Cemetery in Ashfield, MA.
Waymark Code: WMH854
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 06/05/2013
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Ashfield's original Civil War monument was a fountain created by B. F. Dwight and erected in the on Main and Norton Hill Road in the center of Ashfield, MA on September 28, 1867. When a newer Civil War monument was erected in Plain Cemetery in 1917, this monument was moved to its current location in front of Center Hill Cemetery farther south on Norton Hill Road.
The monument is a granite pillar topped by an urn and with small curved basin on all four sides sits on a square block of stone. Water once poured from Dolphin water spouts into each basin. The monument longer functions as a fountain and the basins now functions as planters.
Pink granite plaque are located on each side. Three of the plaques carry inscriptions and one is blank.
The front plaque is inscribed:
TO THE
EVERLASTING
MEMORY
OF THE
SONS OF ASHFIELD
WHO DIED FOR
THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE WAR OF
NATIONALITY
1861-1865
The east side plaque has the names of eleven soldiers from Ashfield who died during the Civil War:
E. S. WILLIAMS
E. P. TAYLOR
R. W. TAYLOR
M. F. WARREN
R. B. SMITH
E. F. HALE
CASPAR LILLY
LEWIS ELDREDGE
JOEL WING
SYLVESTER HOWES
LAFAYETTE F. EDDY
The rear plaque contains the date:
1867