{"id":1005,"date":"2024-10-26T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s2.designcostaging.com\/clients\/mmm\/?post_type=monuments&p=1005"},"modified":"2024-11-13T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T19:06:23","slug":"the-minute-man","status":"publish","type":"monuments","link":"https:\/\/s2.designcostaging.com\/clients\/mmm\/monuments\/the-minute-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minute Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unveiled for the Centennial celebration of the Battle of Concord<\/a>, The Minute Man<\/em> stands guard over the commemorative landscape surrounding the North Bridge, where the first colonial militia men were killed in Concord<\/a> on April 19, 1775. The statue depicts a farmer relinquishing his plow to take up arms in defense of his land and serves as a poignant reminder of an individual\u2019s responsibility to uphold the values of liberty and freedom.<\/p>\n

The Minute Man<\/em> was the first commission of twenty-five-year-old Concord native Daniel Chester French<\/a>. French hailed from a well-to-do New England family and was an art student of Louisa May Alcott<\/a>\u2019s younger sister, Abigail. His career as a sculptor of public monuments would span six decades and include such seminal works as the Abraham Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Cast from old Civil War cannons by the Ames Foundry of Chicopee, Massachusetts, the seven-foot bronze minute man stands on a pedestal base measuring seven-and-a-half feet tall and four-and-a-half feet wide on each side.<\/p>\n

The first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>\u2019s poem, Concord Hymn<\/em>, unveiled at the dedication of the 1836 Battle Monument<\/a> in 1837, is inscribed on the base:<\/p>\n

BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT
\nARCHED THE FLOOD,
\nTHEIR FLAG TO APRIL\u2019S
\nBREEZE UNFURLED,
\nHERE ONCE THE EMBATTLED
\nFARMERS STOOD,
\nAND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD
\nROUND THE WORLD.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo ceremony was needed to unveil the statue…\u201d the April 20, 1875 edition of The Boston Journal<\/em> reported in its extensive coverage of the Centennial day activities, \u201c… it stood in bold relief covered only by the canopy of heaven, touched only by the April breeze which waved on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the dedication, symbolic items were placed into a time capsule in The Minute Man<\/em>\u2019s base including Lemuel Shattuck\u2019s 1835 book, A<\/em> History of the Town of Concord<\/em>; an account of the Concord fight from the diary of Rev. William Emerson; an 1874 Town Report; photographs of Daniel Chester French and The Minute Man<\/em>; a map of the village in 1775; a map of the center of Concord in 1874; coins, stamps, newspapers of the time, and invitations to the 1875 centennial celebration.<\/p>\n

In 1975, the statue was removed to fabricate a duplicative cast. To commemorate the Bicentennial<\/a> of the Battle of Concord, a second time capsule was installed with microfilm containing images of letters, photographs, and scrapbooks made by Girl Scouts; a cassette tape with \u201cThe Sounds of Concord\u201d; an American flag; a Bicentennial flag; military patches; Girl Scout pins, and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A singular farmer relinquishing his plow to take up arms in defense of his land, The Minute Man<\/i> serves as the iconic image of the ideals that fueled the American Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1005","monuments","type-monuments","status-publish","hentry","city_town-concord"],"acf":{"banner_image":1552,"listing_thumbnail":1557,"listing_thumbnail_caption":"","year":"1875","location":"Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, MA","address":"North Bridge","time_period":"1875 - 1924","town":"Concord, MA","state":"MA","gallery":[{"image":2000,"caption":"","image_layout":"Landscape","content":"\"Old North Bridge, showing Minute Man Statue and Battle Green, Concord, Mass.\" Card. Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass., [ca. 1930\u20131945]. Digital Commonwealth<\/a>.<\/em>"},{"image":1997,"caption":"","image_layout":"Portrait","content":"Griffin, Arthur. \"Concord Minute Man.\" Photograph. [ca. 1935\u20131955]. 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