Statue of Historical Figure: Samuel Adams - Boston, MA

Samuel Adams

Boston, MA

N 42° 21.124 W 071° 03.082

Short Description: 

A statue of one of the fathers of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams, is located at the entrance to the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum at 306 Congress Street, Boston, MA.

Long Description: 

A 6.5' high bronze statue of American patriot Samuel Adams stands on a circular bronze plinth set at ground level. Adams is wearing period colonial clothing with a knee length coat, knee high boots, a waistcoat, and an ascot. He is standing with is right hand pointing straight up with his index finger pointing to the sky. He holds a scroll in his left hand which is by his side. The sculpture was created by Susie Chisholm in 2013 and unveiled on December 16, 2013 on the 240th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

The circular plinth is inscribed:

SAMUEL ADAMS

1722 - 1803

FATHER OF THE REVOLUTION

SCULPTOR

SUSIE CHISHOLM, NSS

Samuel Adams was born in Boston on September 16, 1722. He attended Harvard College and then worked in his family's malting business, malt being the necessary ingredient for making beer. Ever interested in politics, in 1848 Samuel Adams published The Independent Advertiser, a weekly newspaper that printed political essays espousing separation from Britain. Adams was a leading figure that led up to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. A response of to the passing by the British Parliament of the Tea Act, which ironically actually lowered the cost of tea in the colonies. The protest was over the right of Britain to tax and otherwise interfere with the affairs of the colonists. The Boston tea party was a major event leading up to the American Revolution (1775-1783).

After the Revolutionary War, Adams served as the President of the Massachusetts Senate (1782–1785 and 1787–1788), 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1789 – 1794) under Governor John Hancock, and the 4th Governor of Massachusetts from October 8, 1794 to June 2, 1797.

Roadside Attraction: Hood Milk Bottle Building - Boston, MA

Hood Milk Bottle Building

Boston, MA

N 42° 21.102 W 071° 03.012

Short Description: 

The Hood Milk Bottle Building is located in front of the Boston Children's Museum at 300 Congress Street, Boston, MA.

Long Description:

The bottle building was built in 1934 by Arthur Gagner. It was originally used to sell his homemade ice cream on Route 44 in Taunton, MA. It was subsequently abandoned until it was purchased and renovated by the HP Hood dairy company and donated to the Boston Children’s Museum in 1977.

The bottle is 40 feet tall and weighs 15,000 pounds. It would require about 58,620 gallons of milk to fill the bottle. At the base of the bottle is an ice cream stand and snack bar. Tables and chairs are placed along the surrounding patio to accommodate the needs of visitors.

Bermuda: Points of View Sculpture - Hamilton, Pemboke Parish

"Points of View" Sculpture

Hamilton, Pemboke Parish

Bermuda

N 32° 17.465 W 064° 47.400

Quick Description: 

"Points of View" is located in front of the Waterloo House at 100 Pitt's Bay Road in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Long Description:

Local Bermuda artist, Will Collieson, created the abstract sculpture he calls "Points of View." It is located in the forecourt of the Waterloo House on the waterfront in Hamilton, Bermuda. The 26-foot tall sculpture has a nautical theme with three tiers of sail-like shapes, decreasing in size, and stacked vertically on spars rising up a central mast. Special molds were used to form the fiberglass spars and sails. The sculpture is set in a circular, concrete, ground level basin filled with water. It was built to resistant hurricane force winds.

Bermuda: Belvedere Place Moongate - Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

Belvedere Place Moongate

Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

Bermuda

N32° 17.483 W64° 47.398

Short Description: 

This moongate at Belvedere Place on Pitts Bay Road leads from the sidewalk, two steps down, into a courtyard.

Long Description: 

This moongate is attached to a  wall on either side. The keystone arch opening is made of limestone blocks.

A sign to the right of the moongate is inscribed:

Story of the Moongate

 Legend says ... honeymooners

should walk through the 

moongate and make a wish! 

If you are not a honeymooner, 

make a wish anyway!

Bermuda: Bacardi Fountain - Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

Bacardi Ltd. Fountain

Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

Bermuda

N 32° 17.500 W 064° 47.465

Short Description: 

The Bacardi Fountain is located at the Bacardi Corporate Headquarters at 65 Pitts Bay Road in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Long Description:

The Bacardi Fountain is located on the grounds of Bacardi Limited in Hamilton. Signs indicate permission is granted to enter the grounds to solely view the fountain.

The fountain is an 80' long U-shape with 20' long by 15' high cascades of water on each side of the U-shape. Water pours down from each cascade from three gates into a large ground level pool that extends the full length of the fountain and into the recess in between the cascades. When functioning,, jets of water rise up from nozzles placed in the central section.

Bermuda: H.M.S. Jervis Bay Memorial - Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

Capt. E.S.F. Fegen, Officers, and Crew 

of

 H.M.S Jervis Bay

Hamilton, Bermuda

N 32° 17.467 W 064° 47.211

Short Description: 

A monument honoring the Captain and crew of the H.M.S. Jervis Bay is located in Albouy's Point, in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Long Description:

A monument in the form of a sundial honors the heroism of the Captain, Officers, and Ship's Company of the H.M.S. Jervis Bay for their actions in the North Atlantic during World War II. The base of the sundial contains a bronze plaque with the following inscription:

REMEMBER

CAPTAIN E.S.F. FEGEN V.C.

ROYAL NAVY, THE OFFICERS

AND SHIP'S COMPANY OF

H.M.S. "JERVIS BAY"

WHO CHEERFULLY GAVE THEIR 

LIVES IN SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE

OF THEIR CONVOY, FIGHTING THEIR

SHIP TO THE LAST AGAINST 

HOPELESS OFDDS. NOV. 5TH 1940.

"BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH."

REV. II. 10.

H.M.S. Jervis Bay was a British liner which was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and assigned to protect merchant convoys crossing the the North Atlantic. On 5 November 1940 the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked the convoy. Captain Fegen ordered the convoy to disperse and then attacked the battleship even though it was hopelessly outgunned and outranged by the guns of the German battleship. The Jervis Bay sailed towards the battleship while firing upon it to draw fire away from the convoy. The H.M.S. Jervis Bay was shelled and sunk but the convoy escaped. Of 254 members of the crew, 68 survivors were picked up by the neutral Swedish ship Stureholm.

Captain Fegen was awarded the Victoria Cross, posthumous, for this action. The citation for his award reads:

"for valour in challenging hopeless odds and giving his life to save the many ships it was his duty to protect. On the 5th of November, 1940, in heavy seas, Captain Fegen, in His Majesty's Armed Merchant Cruiser Jervis Bay, was escorting thirty-eight Merchantmen. Sighting a powerful German warship he at once drew clear of the Convoy, made straight for the Enemy, and brought his ship between the Raider and her prey, so that they might scatter and escape. Crippled, in flames, unable to reply, for nearly an hour the Jervis Bay held the German's fire. So she went down: but of the Merchantmen all but four or five were saved."

Bermuda: General Post Office - Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

General Post Office

Hamilton, Pembroke Parish

Bermuda

N 32° 17.649 W 064° 46.929

Short Description: 

The General Post Office in Hamilton is the main post office in Bermuda. It is located at 56 Church, Street.

Long Description:

The modern style, three story, General Post Office in Hamilton is the countries main postal facility. It opened in 1967 to replace the 19th century postal facility in Hamilton. It is conveniently located across the street of the Sessions House, the Bermuda House of Assembly. The General Post Office works in conjunction with the Bermuda Mail Processing Centre on Kindley Field Road, St. George's parish which is used processing all mail for island wide distribution.

Hours of Operation

Monday to Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Telephone: 441-297 7893