How about a statue of the brave Vineyarders who provided a means of escape from the likes of the monument portrayed in the Oak Bluffs park. I did see a very small bronze plaque in Menemsha commemorating the honorable people who ran the Underground Railroad.
The statue in Oak Bluffs is not "A monument dedicated to the Confederate Soldiers". The fourth of four plaques on the base of the statue acknowledges the Confederate soldiers. That plaque was installed in an effort to heal the schism over which a war was fought 65 years earlier.
When you disembark from the ferry into the Martha's Vineyard Island town of Oak Bluffs, this watchful life-size Civil War soldier on a pedestal stands directly ahead on the grass.
After the Civil War, Strahan made his way in 1884 to Martha’s Vineyard, where he remade himself as a newspaper publisher. He took over the Cottage City Star and renamed it the Martha’s …
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The Oak Bluffs Civil War monument was meant as a gesture to mend the tensions between the North and South. —Stacey Rupolo A tribute to the Merchant Marines can be found outside the American …
An Oak Bluffs resident for seven years at the time that memorial was dedicated, he had much in common with the federal veterans who enthusiastically backed his idea to erect a monument. Save one extraordinary difference: during the Civil War, this veteran fought for the Confederate States of America .
This monument depicting a Union Soldier was erected in 1891 by Charles Strahan, a former Confederate who relocated to Martha's Vineyard after the Civil War. (A historical marker located in Oak Bluff in Dukes County, Massachusetts.)
Originally the statue stood at the head of Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs, erected there in the summer of 1891 to honor the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of Civil War veterans. All plain enough.
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Charlie’s Statue October 9, 2012 · by tompostpile · in Essay , Martha's Vineyard , photograph . In the town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts is a Civil War statue and water fountain.
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Our first stop was an American Civil War Monument located on the grounds of Ocean Park. Soldiers' Memorial Fountain Monument is located at Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. This monument depicting a Federal soldier was erected in 1891 by Charles Strahan, a former Confederate soldier who relocated to Martha's Vineyard after the …
The other, a statue of a Union soldier at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs, was actually donated after the war by a Confederate soldier who moved to the Island. Initially the gift caused some …
Today, the monument is located on a town green, within sight of the ferry terminal in Oak Bluffs. Over the Twentieth Century, this harbor-side community evolved into a top resort destination for well-to-do and successful African Americans.
I always admired the Statue of the Civil War Soldier at Oakwood Cemetery in my hometown of Saginaw. I always thought it was a statue of James N. Penoyer since his name is so prominently displayed on the plinth. As I went around Michigan taking photos and finding other Civil War statues I noticed …
Spanish-American War Mural: Inside the State House behind Roger Wolcott statue.There are several murals behind the statue commemorating the 6th MA Regiment in Civil War, Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico liberation and WWI.
Memorial to Civil War heroes, Oak Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, New England, USA A reenactor at the Boston Veterans' Parade, representing the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, an all-black infantry regiment organized in Massachusetts.
Flash-forward to 1891 when Oak Bluffs newspaperman Charles Strahan, veteran of the 21st Regiment of Virginia, put up a statue to honor all the fallen of the Civil War.
A statue of a lone Civil War soldier stands watch over the Oak Bluffs waterfront, atop a pedestal adorned with cryptically worded plaques. It is the legacy of Charles Strahan, a veteran of the Confederate army who lived out the "second act" of his life on Martha's Vineyard.