The Robbins Memorial Flagstaff (1913) is a structure supporting and topping a flagpole in Arlington, Massachusetts created by

Cyrus Dallin Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native Americans. He created more than 260 works, including the ''Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere'' in Boston, Massac ...

. The supporting sculpture includes a variety of sculptural elements including bronze figures, stone eagles, and snapping turtles with a finial representing American Agriculture. The sculpture resides to the west of Town Hall at 730 Massachusetts Avenue. The sculpture was commissioned by architect Richard Clipston Sturgis who prepared the site plan for the library/town hall area and designed the adjacent Town Hall.

created the sculpture with input by Sturgis. The eagles on the base were executed by the prominent stone carver, John Evans of Boston. On June 25, 1913, this sculpture and the nearby

Menotomy Hunter ''The Menotomy Hunter'' (1911) is a sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin in Arlington, Massachusetts, showing a Native American hunter pausing at a brook for a drink of water. It is located between the Arlington Town Hall and the Robbins Memorial Librar ...

were dedicated and Dallin's speech included a passionate plea for renaming the town of Arlington as Menotomy after the historic significance of its largely vanished inhabitants. The four figures around the base include a colonial woman teaching a child to read, an Indigenous American woman with a papoose on her back, the Minuteman of 1776, and a man reading a bible. At the time of its creation it was described as "Perhaps as great a test of a sculptor's powers as anything that could be conceived." The sculpture can be found about 300 yards west of the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. File:Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC02772.jpg, American Agriculture Figure Original can be seen close up in the nearby Cyrus Dallin Art Museum File:Pilgrim divine - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03087.jpg, Pilgrim Divine File:Squaw Sachem - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC02798.jpg, Squaw Sachem File:Pilgrim mother and child - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03081.jpg, Pilgrim Mother and Child File:Robbins Memorial Flagstaff in Arlington Massachusetts by Cyrus Dallin- base figure of pioneer man.jpg, Patriot File:Eagle - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03088.jpg, Eagle File:Ornament - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03096.jpg, Ornament

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