Ware in Hampshire County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)
Ware Revolutionary War Memorial
Ware's Citizen-Soldiers
of the
Revolutionary War
who Marched on the Alarm of
April 19, 1775
Col. Ruggles Woodbridge · Capt. Joseph Foster · Lt. Wm. Gilmer · Sgt. Lemnel Blackmer · Sgt. Ebenezer Nye · Corp. John Croft · Pvt. Judah Symons · Pvt. Jonathan Marsh · Pvt. Thomas Gilman · Pvt. Judah Marsh · Pvt. Charles Boney · Pvt. Joseph Cuming · Pvt. Thomas Sherman · Pvt. Prince Sherman · Pvt. Timothy Evens · Pvt. Nathaniel Wilder · Pvt. Gersham Whitney · Pvt. Nathan Davis · Pvt. Elkeneh Billings · Pvt. Steward Kee · Pvt. Thomas Andrews · Pvt. John Rutherford · Pvt. John Eullen · Pvt. Jeremiah Gould · Pvt. Noah Thompson · Pvt. Miles Jordon · Pvt. James Damon, Jr. · Pvt. Gershaw Whitney, Jr. · Pvt. Samuel Andrews · Pvt. Thomas Jenkens
Historical Commission
May 2011
Erected 2011 by Ware Historical Commission.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.
Location. 42° 15.655′ N, 72° 14.549′ W. Memorial is in Ware, Massachusetts, in Hampshire County. It is at the intersection of Main Street and West Street (Massachusetts Route 32), on the right when traveling west on Main Street. Located in Veterans' Park, across from Ware Town Hall. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Ware MA 01082, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Pioneer Valley and in Greater Springfield. It is also in the American Northeast and in New England. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Birthplace of Lucy Stone (approx. 2.8 miles away); a different marker also named Birthplace of Lucy Stone (approx. 2.9 miles away); West Warren, MA. (approx. 3.4 miles away); Warren Civil War Memorial (approx. 4.2 miles away); Gen. Henry Knox Trail (approx. 4.4 miles away); Boston Post Road (approx. 4.4 miles away); West Brookfield Veterans Memorial (approx. 5˝ miles away); West Brookfield Veterans Monument (approx. 5˝ miles away).
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