Andrews Square
Harold T. Andrews Square is a public square and World War I memorial in Portland, Maine. It sits at the intersection of Clark, Pine, and West Streets in the West End. The Butler School is next to the square.
The square is named for Harold Taylor Andrews, a West End resident and the first Maine soldier killed in World War I. His father, William M. Andrews, was the longtime principal of Butler School. On Armistice Day in 1919, Portland held parades and memorials, including a gathering to dedicate the intersection to Harold T. Andrews. A seaplane flew over the square and dropped a bushel of flowers during the ceremony.
In December 1921, a bronze plaque was dedicated in the square. Thousands listened to speeches by Mayor Carroll Chaplin and Amelia McCudden, whose son James McCudden was a famous British flying ace killed in the war. The Portland Rotary Club organized the renaming of the square and the memorial.
In 2015, the granite and bronze memorial was rededicated in a ceremony with veterans groups, city councilor Edward Suslovic, and U.S. Senator Angus King.
The memorial plaque reads: This square was named to honor the memory of Harold Taylor Andrews, the first son of Maine to make the supreme sacrifice in the Great War of 1914–1918. Corporal Co. B. 11th Engineers, American Expeditionary Forces. Enlisted May 15, 1917. Born in Portland Nov. 10, 1893. Killed in action at Gouzeaucourt near Cambrai, France, Nov. 30, 1917.
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