Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument

The week’s challenge topic is Monument. Here is a gallery of monument photos I have featured in the past, plus a couple of new ones.

The Boston area of the U.S. has a lot of history, though we are really a “young” nation compared with Europe. So, none of these monuments are really “old.”

Adams Library at Peacefield

Pilgrim Sculpture

Sachem’s Rock

Massasoit monument

Mayflower II

George Washington in Public Garden

Statue of Mayor White

The Library at Peacefield is from the 1800s.

So too, is the statue of Washington in the Public Gardens.

The original “Mayflower” that brought the pilgrims to America is long gone; the Mayflower II is a replica built in the 1950s.

 

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