Historical 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.