Monument Square and Humphrey Street

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Title

Monument Square and Humphrey Street

Subject

Monuments -- Massachusetts -- Swampscott -- Pictorial works; Streets -- Massachusetts -- Swampscott -- Pictorial works.
Monument Square (Swampscott, Mass.); Humphrey Street (Swampscott, Mass.); Swampscott (Massachusetts) -- History -- Pictorial works.

Description

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Humphrey Street and Monument Square, Swampscott, MA, 01907
View looking East along Humphrey Street toward Monument Square.;Monument Square was previously known as Mudge Square. The Mudge family donated the land for the erection of a Civil War monument in honor of the fourteen Swampscott men who died in the war. The monument is constructed of granite with bronze tables and trimmings. It is thirty feet high and six feet ten inches at the base. The monument was dedicated in 1883.--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996.

Date

1915

Coverage

Humphrey Street and Monument Square, Swampscott, MA, 01907
Monument Square (Swampscott, Mass.); Humphrey Street (Swampscott, Mass.); Swampscott (Massachusetts) -- History -- Pictorial works.

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“Monument Square and Humphrey Street,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 24, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/5760.

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