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Jamestown Police are looking for the whereabouts of a 500-600-lb. statue memorializing the Underground Railroad.
Jamestown Police said Parks Department employees reported the copper statue missing Monday morning from its home in Dow Park. The statue, one of three entitled Underground Railroad Tableau by sculptor David Poulin, represents the path to freedom through Jamestown to Canada.
The missing statue is that of Tom, a runaway slave in torn clothing, his hand outstretched toward another statue, that of Catherine Harris. Harris and her father were the first colored people in Jamestown when they moved there from Pennsylvania in 1831. Nearby is a plaque, describing a reward of $150 for Tom s return.
etichy@post-journal.com Ross Olszewski of the Jamestown Police Department is pictured Monday morning taking photographs at Dow Park. A copper statue part of the “Underground Railroad Tableau” series was stolen sometime between Thursday and Monday.
Photo by Eric Tichy This statue honors the anonymous fugitives who touched Jamestown in the pursuit of freedom along the underground railroad.
Ross Olszewski of the Jamestown Police Department is pictured Monday morning taking photographs at Dow Park. A copper statue part of the Underground Railroad Tableau series was stolen sometime between Thursday and Monday.
Photo by Eric Tichy
A statue part of a series at Dow Park in Jamestown memorializing the local Underground Railroad movement appears to have been stolen. The piece is one of three at the park created by the late David Poulin titled “Underground Railroad Tableau.”