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Shortly after the Liberty Square Monument<\/a> dedication in the spring of 1950, “Colonel” Edward Fletcher offered to present the Town with a second, larger memorial to honor 148 Revolutionary War heroes from Littleton<\/a> and the surrounding vicinity by name and requested his dear friend and distant cousin, Ralph W. Conant, take charge of the project.<\/p>\n

Crafted of Vermont granite, it was dedicated just over a year later, on September 16, 1951. Before the names of eighteen officers, the inscription on the front of the monument, facing Taylor Street, reads:<\/p>\n

“IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE
\nREVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROES OF
\nLITTLETON
\nWHOSE INSPIRING COURAGE AND
\nBITTER SACRIFICES CREATED A
\nNEW COUNTRY DEDICATED TO
\nLIBERTY AND JUSTICE”<\/p>\n

A second inscription reads:<\/p>\n

ERECTED BY
\nCOLONEL ED FLETCHER
\nGREAT-GREAT GRANDSON OF
\nCAPTAIN ELEAZER FLETCHER<\/p>\n

The remaining three sides of the monument are inscribed with the names, in alphabetical order, of the militia men who served in the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n

Fletcher\u2019s two sisters, including 90-year-old Susie, represented him at the dedication. U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers<\/a> of Lowell was the principal speaker.<\/p>\n

According to the September 18, 1951 issue of The Lowell Sun<\/em>, \u201cMany of those in attendance were direct descendants of men whose names are etched on the monument for posterity and those descendants also look with pride on members of their own families who, like their forebears of colonial days, had taken up arms to preserve the freedom so dearly won at Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill and subsequent battles by the Continental Army during the trying days of the Revolutionary War.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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