Laura Secord
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Laura Secord was a Canadian woman involved in the War of 1812. She is known for having walked 20 miles out of American-occupied territory in 1813 to warn British forces of an impending American attack
Secord in 1865
Secord warns British commander James FitzGibbon of an impending American attack at Beaver Dams. (Lorne Kidd Smith, c. 1920)
Secord was promised a position at Brock's Monument, but the position was given to another woman. (1840 painting by Philip John Bainbrigge)
Statue of Laura Secord at the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa
Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,172 at the 2020 census. B
Laura Secord
…at the Valiants Memorial in the Canadian capital. Laura's father, Thomas Ingersoll, married seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Dewey on 28 February 1775 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Their first child, Laura, was born there on 13 September 1775. Thomas, son of Jonathan Ingersoll, was born in 1749 in Westfield, Massachusetts…
View from Main Street in the spring
Print of Great Barrington from 1884 by L.R. Burleigh, with listing of landmarks
Civil War Monument, in front of the town hall
Railroad Street, where many restaurants and business are located