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Soldiers Monument
Categories: Landmarks & Historical Buildings, Local Flavor [Edit]
Neighborhood: Jamaica PlainCentre and South Sts.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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2 reviews for Soldiers Monument
The Soldier's Monument in Jamaica Plain is a Civil War memorial. It was erected by the Town of West Roxbury to honor the local men who served and died during that war. The statue at the top of the monument shows a solder, head bowed, resting on his rifle. This is not a celebration of war or victory, it is a somber memorial to the hardship and pain the war had brought. Inside the memorial is a marble block with the names of those who lost their lives inscribed.
There is also a stone with a brass plaque that was added about 100 years ago to honor the soldiers of the Revolution.
Ah, The Monument. What are you a monument to, exactly? War? Soldiers? I have no idea, and no one else in JP seems to either. But you're pretty to look at, and you help me give good walking directions to people who aren't from around here because you're a can't-miss kind of a monument.
The Monument is pretty adequate as far as monuments go. I'll take it as my neighborhood monument, as long as it turns out it's not a monument to, like, pedophilia or Woodrow Wilson or elephant poaching. But this is JP, so I highly doubt it. Go, The Monument!
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