Happy Flag Day!

The Liberty Pole at Prescott Park is 110 feet tall, mounted by a golden gilded eagle and a silver painted beehive surrounded by thirteen balls. This pole has been replaced many times over the years, most recently in 1984.

There are two plaques on the flag pole.  The first, made of bronze, reads:

"Liberty, Property 

and No Stamp

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Near this spot

then "Swing Bridge"

But thenceforth called

"Liberty Bridge"

on January 9, 1766

nine years

before the Revolution

the "Sons of Liberty"

of Portsmouth, NH

placed the first 

"No Stamp Flag"

raised in the

American Colonies

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"Swing Bridge" built 1731

Waterway filled 1899

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The Liberty Pole 

Association

1913"

A painted wooden plaque on the flagpole reads:

"Erected July 4, 1824

In commemoration of

July 4 1776 that declared

our emancipation from

tyranny and gave us

the privileges of

freemen. 

The eagle at the top of the Liberty Pole in Prescott Park is a replacement.  You can see the orginal, carved by Laban Beecher in 1824, preserved at the Portsmouth Public Library.

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Copyright 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo