Woburn Revolutionary War Memorial

Woburn’s Hammond Square features a granite-mounted bronze plaque dedicated to the local residents who died while serving during the nation’s struggle for independence from Britain.

Erected in 1924, the memorial was installed by the Colonel Loammi Baldwin Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Its text reads:

THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES
THE MEN OF WOBURN
WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1776 – 1783

The names of eighteen Woburn men follow these words of commemoration. Two lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “Voluntaries,” punctuate the memorial’s inscription:

WHEN DUTY WHISPERS LOW, THOU MUST,
THE YOUTH REPLIES, I CAN.