Col Timothy Bigelow DAR

Worcester, Massachusetts 

Chapter Sponsored Historical Markers

Bigelow Home and Blacksmith Shop

Members of the DAR gathered for the unveiling of a new Historical Marker on Sept 20th.  Kathryn Kingsbury, of the Col. Timothy Bigelow Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution read  the following poem that she wrote for the dedication of the plaque.

A SPECIAL DAY IN WORCESTER – SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

A NEW PLAQUE ON LINCOLN SQUARE

IS WELCOMED BY EACH DAR MEMBER

IT SHOWS THE SITE OF TIMOTHY BIGELOW’S HOME

AN AMERICAN PATRIOT THAT WE REMEMBER

 

A BLACKSMITH SHOP WAS LOCATED HERE

AS THIS WAS BIGELOW’S TRADE

WITH HIS WIFE ANNA AND HIS CHILDREN

HE LIVED, WORKED AND PRAYED

 

WE HONOR COLONEL TIMOTHY BIGELOW

WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

A LEADER OF THE MINUTE MEN ON WORCESTER COMMON

HIS LOVE OF COUNTRY WE CHERISH AND ADORE

 

HOW PROUD WE ARE TO BE AMERICANS

TO REMEMBER A WORCESTER VETERAN TODAY

WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE

WHOSE PATRIOTIC SPIRIT WILL WITH US STAY

                                                                                                          by KBK

 

WHO IS TIMOTHY BIGELOW OF WORCESTER , MASSACHUSETTS

 

·                     A self-educated man who learned through many hours of reading and studying

·                     A blacksmith who gave up his trade to fight for freedom and help to establish the United States as an independent nation

·                     The Colonel of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army who trained his troops on Worcester Common

·                     An important military hero whose 25 foot gothic style monument on Worcester Common was dedicated on April 19, 1861 and rededicated on May 1, 2008

·                     An American Patriot who was one of Worcester ’s first military heroes and the first veteran to have a monument in Worcester to honor his service to our country

·                     A believer in freedom who smuggled the Isaiah Thomas Printing Press from Boston to Worcester with the help of Dr. Joseph Warren, another Revolutionary Patriot

·                     A member of the Continental Army who has a mountain in New Hampshire named in his honor.  Bigelow Mountain is on the Appalachian Trail near Flagstaff Lake

·                     The man that the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution

(DAR) named their chapter in honor of in 1899.    The Nancy Bigelow Society Children of

the American Revolution is named in honor of his oldest daughter Nancy

 
November 2008 - We received the sad news that the bronze historical plaque that marked the Lincoln Square site of the Col. Bigelow's family home in Worcester, MA, has disappeared. 

Worcester Telegram & Gazette News Article

Bigelow Monument on Historic Worcester Common

 

 Chapter Sponsored Markers

The chapter has been active in marking many historic spots. 

In 1902, a white oak was planted on the Old Common near the grave of Col. Timothy Bigelow. 

In 1903, a bronze tablet was placed near the site of the first schoolhouse near the Court House where John Adams, our second President, taught.

 In 1904, a wooden tablet was put upon the block then standing on the site of the house of Col. Timothy Bigelow at Lincoln Square. This was replaced by one of bronze in 1929.

In 1904, a similar marker was placed on the house of Isaiah Thomas, the Founder of the American Antiquarian Society and "Worcester Spy."

The house once owned by Gov. John Hancock and which was later owned and occupied by Gov. Lincoln and other men prominent in the history of the state was similarly marked.

The chapter also joined with other patriotic societies of Worcester in placing bronze tablets on the site of the birthplace of George Bancroft, the historian; and on the Worcester Common which was formerly used as a burying place and where eight Revolutionary soldiers are buried. 

It also located and marked a great number of soldiers' graves, fifty-eight of them by 1905. 

A bronze tablet was placed on Lincoln Street, on a boulder at the site of the home of Ephraim Curtis, the first white settler of Worcester.

During the Tercentenary Celebration the chapter marked the route taken by George Washington when he marched to Charlestown to assume command of the Continental Troops, one marker being in front of the Court House.

In 1935, a marker was placed by our chapter at the foot of Bigelow Mountain in Stratton, Maine, honoring Col. Timothy Bigelow, for whom the mountain was named. Mrs. Arthur L. Dexter, regent at that time, made the presentation to the Maine State Society DAR. In 1951 this marker was moved and rededicated in New Flagstaff, Maine. 


Bigelow Monument History

 

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