This Memorial Day, the Town of Andover will host the Revolutionary War Memorial Re-Dedication at Bicentennial Park at 8:30 AM. The memorial lists the names of 22 Andover men who gave their lives in the American Revolution at locales from Bunker Hill to Valley Forge to Ticonderoga. Several of the militiamen commemorated on the memorial are buried across the street in the South Parish Burial Grounds.
Co-sponsored by the Andover Center for History & Culture, the Memorial Day ceremony will include a wreath-laying, unveiling of an historical marker commemorating the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to Andover in 1825, fife and drum performance by The Musick of Prescott’s Battalion, and recitation of the Annie Sawyer Downs poem That Day at Bunker Hill!
