Women’s Liberty Monument
This is the Lexington Women’s Liberty Monument, officially titled “Something is Being Done” that was unveiled in May 2024 in the historic center of Lexington. The memorial was created by sculptor Meredith Bergmann and was commissioned by the organization LexSeeHer to recognize the women whose stories had been left out of Lexington’s public monuments.
The phrase engraved beneath where I am standing – Something Must Be Done – comes from the words attributed to Abigail Harrington on the morning of April 19, 1775. As British troops approached Lexington, she awakened her son, a fifer in Captain Parker’s militia, warning him,
“The regulars are out, and something must be done.”
What makes this monument powerful is that it tells women’s history across centuries. The bronze arch contains more than twenty figures representing women connected to Lexington history: abolitionist, enslaved women who fought for freedom, suffragists, educators, architects, scientists, activists and mothers of the Revolution.
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