Located 281 Compo Road at Compo Beach Road Westport Connecticut
Date:
Copyrighted 1910. Cast April 1910. Dedicated June 17, 1910
Notes:
Percoco, Jim, 1991.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CT5024, 1989.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1994.
Monumental News, Jan., April and May 1910.
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
Summary:
A young minuteman man in colonial knee breeches and tunic kneels on his proper right leg with his arms gripping a musket raised and balanced on his raised proper left knee. A powder horn is slung across his proper right shoulder. He is facing towards Danbury, on guard should the British decide to march again on Westport. The sculpture has been painted a pale green color to imitate copper oxidation. The base is comprised of mortared fieldstones.
