Name/Title
George Washington Memorial monument, 200th birthday 1932Entry/Object ID
ph-50-163-nDescription
George Washington Memorial Highway monument, 200th birthday of George Washington, 1932.
It followed the route that Washington traveled twice: when taking command of the Continental Army, and later in the fall of 1789 after he became president. The highway was marked with 22 plaques along the route between Agawam and Cambridge. Wayland's monument contains a plaque with a bas relief bust of George Washington which is about 4' in height. It is mounted on an approximately 6' diameter circular granite millstone mounted vertically on a similar circular granite millstone resting horizontally on the ground. The vertical stone is decorated with diagonal lines. The horizontal stone is decorated with curved lines. the inscription reads: "This tablet marks the George Washington Memorial Highway at Wayland 1732 - 1932". It is located at Wayland Town Center District Routes 20, 27 and 126. The designer is unknown.Collection
W. H. Folsom Shoebox CollectionAcquisition
Notes
(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)Made/Created
Artist
Folsom, Wallace HerbertLexicon
Search Terms
Folsom, Wallace Herbert, (1884-1954) -- Photographer George Washington Memorial Highway -- Wayland, (Mass.) Wayland, (Mass.) -- Center Colonial Costume -- BoyDimensions
Height
3-1/8 inWidth
4-1/8 inInterpretative Labels
Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
How do we choose what to commemorate, and why? Whose journeys get marked, and whose go unrecorded? What do monuments tell us about the times in which they were made?General Notes
Note
[Total 761 negatives from original shoebox of Folsom negatives]