Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Madonna of the Trail

Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Madonna of the Trail, June 26, 2019, The woman stands 8 feet tall and 3 feet wide, Wow, that would be quite a basketball player, But this is no basketball player, it is a statue, Specifically, it is a monument to the pioneer women of America, It is one of only 12 such statues which are located across the

Madonna of the Trail Council Grove, Kansas

Madonna of the Trail Council Grove, Kansas Introduction, One of 12 identical statues depicting white pioneer women migrating along 19th-century western trails, Images, Madonna of the Trail, Photo by Cynthia Prescott, Madonna Park plaque, Photo by Cynthia Prescott, Flag pole Backstory and

Madonna of the Trail – Pioneer Monuments in the American West

Of the twelve Madonna of the Trail statues, only four West Virginia, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico face West; half face South Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, California, one faces North Arizona and one Maryland has been moved several times, always facing East, Nearly a century has passed since these statues were first erected across the United States, In some cases

U,S, Route 40

Madonna of the Trail – Kansas 1-57 West Main Street Council Grove, KS 66846, This monument stands on the east bank of the Neosho River at Main Street U,S, Route 56, The monument was dedicated on September 7, 1928, The inscriptions read: West Face: MADONNA OF THE TRAIL N,S,D,A,R, MEMORIAL TO THE PIONEER MOTHERS OF THE COVERED WAGON DAYS , South …

Madonna of the Trail

In 1927, the proposed design, “The Madonna of the Trail” was accepted by the DAR, The statues are of heroic proportions, standing 18 feet tall and weighing more than 17 tons, The statues were erected in each of the 12 states through which the National Old Trails Road passes, The 12th, and final, statue was erected at Bethesda, Maryland, the week of 19 April 1929, The Madonna of the Trail is

Madonna of the Trail, Council Grove, Kansas

Madonna of the Trail, Council Grove, Kansas, Madonna of the Trail statues stand in twelve locations from Maryland to California, tracing a historic travel route from “covered wagon days,” The 18-ft, tall monuments were a project of the Daughters of the American Revolution, installed in 1928-29, and are a tribute to pioneer mothers who traveled

Madonna of the Trail Statue

The Bethesda Madonna of the Trail was the last of the twelve to be built, even though it is the first on the path west, The other eleven statues, and the dates on which they were completed, are in: Springfield, Ohio, 4 July 1928, Wheeling, West Virginia, 7 July 1928, Council Grove, Kansas, 7 September 1928, Lexington, Missouri, 17 September 1928,

Madonna of the Trail

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Madonna of the Trail–Route 66: A Discover Our Shared

The Albuquerque Madonna of the Trail was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, The Albuquerque statue remains a local landmark, a physical remnant of 1920s ideas about the connection between trans-Atlantic automobile travel and western settlement, and a tribute to the women who helped move the country westward along its earliest roadbeds,

The Madonnas of the Trail Project

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“Madonna of the Trail, N,S,D,A,R, Memorial To The Pioneer Mothers Of The Covered Wagon Days” and “The National Old Trails Road”, The other two sides have inscriptions describing the historical significance of the location in the westward movement, Both of these rest on a foundation standing 2 feet high, In all, the entire monument stands 28 feet, The material used to make the monument

Madonna of the Trail Statue

Historical Significance: “Madonna of the Trail is a series of 12 monuments dedicated to the spirit of pioneer women in the United States, The monuments were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution NSDAR, They were installed in each of the 12 states along the National Old Trails Road Route 40, which extended from Bethesda, Maryland, to Upland, California,

Madonna of the Trail Lexington, Missouri Lafayette County

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Madonna of the Trail is a series of 12 identical monuments dedicated to the sp irit of pioneer women in the United States, In the late 1920’s, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution NSDAR commissioned the design, casting and placement of twelve memorials commemorating the sp irit of pioneer women, These monument s were installed in each of 12 states along the

Madonna of the Trail Defies Statue-Toppling Culture

She is Madonna of the Trail, Constructed in 1927, the warm color of the algonite stone provides a telling portrayal of temperateness one imagines a woman protecting her …