Inscribed below his likeness is: “This memorial erected by his friends is their tribute to his devotion to public education and charity in the City of Brooklyn” and is signed “A ST G” — Irish-born Augustus Saint Gaudens, one of the more prolific and famed sculptors of the 19th Century: the Peter Cooper statue at Cooper Square, the William Tecumseh Sherman statue at Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza, and the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial at Boston Common and many, many others.
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On weekends a free tourist trolley service runs between noon and 6 p.m. from Grand Army Plaza with stops at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Boathouse, the Wollman Rink and the Brooklyn Museum. The Grand Army Plaza subway station is on the north end of the Plaza and furnishes transportation to the site and the nearby park.
Brooklyn’s Civil War Memorial. In 1869, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted positioned the first statue dedicated to Abraham Lincoln at the north end of the Plaza’s axis. Facing North, the statue holds the Emancipation Proclamation. Behind the statue, in 1873, the Vaux Fountain was unveiled. The Arch was dedicated at the south end of the Plaza’s axis in 1892.
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