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Maddonna of the Trail IL596 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
Front Base: MADDONNA OF THE TRAIL
N. S. D. A. R.
of the
PIONEER MOTHERS
of the
COVERED WAGON DAYS
East Side Base: "The Cumberland Road
built by
The Federal Government
Was Authorized by Congress
and Approved by
Thomas Jefferson in 1806.
Vandalia Marks the
Western Turminius"
West Side Base: "At Vandalia Abraham Lincoln,
member of the Illinois Legislature
First Formulated
Those High Principles
of Freedom and Justice
which gave the slaves
a Liberator,
The Union a Saviour."
Back Base: THE NATIONAL
OLD TRAILS ROAD
Description of Statue:
A depiction of a woman in pioneer clothing, with long, shin-length dress, laced boots, a sunbonnet with flowers, and a scarf tied around her neck. In the crook of her proper left arm she holds an infant wearing a short-sleeved shirt and lightly wrapped in a blanket. In her proper right hand is the top of the barrel of a rifle, the butt of which rests on the ground at her side. She appears to be using the rifle as a walking stick. She steps forward on her proper left leg. On her proper right is a small boy, walking while holding the fabric of his mother's dress. He wears a short-sleeved shirt, knee pants, suspenders, and calf-high boots. On the plinth at the figures' feet is a bed of prickly pear cactus and large leaves. The sculpture rests on a square base.
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. William Sweeney, State Regent, October 26, 1928. Restored 1990, Mrs. Virgil V. Clary, State Regent.
W. Gallatin St. & S. 4th St., 1st Capitol lawn, Vandalia, Fayette County Illinois
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