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Historical Sites related to the Life and Career of Benedict Arnold


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Gen. Artemas Ward Home and Grave

Grave: Mountain View Cemetery, Boylston St (Rt 140), near Church Rd, Shrewsbury, MA

Home: 786 Main St, Shrewsbury, MA
See the website: http://wardhouse.harvard.edu/

General Ward was commanding the militia forces that had cooped up the British in Boston after Lexington and Concord. It was to Ward and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety that Arnold pitched his plan for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and its cannon. Ward set the future course of this untried Connecticut militia captain by appointing him colonel, with orders to raise troops in western Massachusetts to attack Fort Ti. It was the start of an outstanding military career for Benedict Arnold.

Ward's grave is found just inside the Artemas Ward Memorial Gate of the cemetery, as you enter from the parking lot of the First Congregational Church. His original gravestone has been incorporated into the left gate post.

His home is open as a museum administered by Harvard University. See their website for tour times and dates.
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The family monument, located just inside the gate on the left
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The family monument, located just inside the gate on the left

  • The Artemas Ward Memorial Gate, accessed from the parking lot of the Congregational Church at 19 Church St. Note Ward's original gravestone, embedded in the face of the left gatepost.
  • Dedication plaque
  • Ward's original gravestone
  • Closer view
  • Ward's wife's original stone, embedded in the back of the gatepost
  • Ward's parents' gravestone, embedded in the side of the gatepost
  • The family monument, located just inside the gate on the left
  • Close up of the inscription of Artemas Ward. Other inscriptions around the monument remember succeeding generations.
  • The Artemas Ward House
  • This view shows the monument in front of the house
  • Sign in front
  • Monument in front of the house
  • Top part of the inscription
  • Lower part of the inscription
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