The tour guides you through a 1-mile walk to locations around Brunswick with connections to Joshua L. Chamberlain's life, career, and lasting contributions.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: In 2003 a group of private citizens from Brunswick commissioned this 8-foot statue and presented it as a gift to the town. The statue depicts a serious Chamberlain in uniform.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: Memorial Hall is the only building built during Chamberlain's tenure as president and was originally used for the infamous military drill in 1873.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: Hubbard Hall's second floor contains a portrait gallery of all of Bowdoin College's past presidents. Walk inside and head up to the second floor where Chamberlain's portrait hangs.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: Dedicated in 1994, the Bowdoin College War Memorial honors Bowdoin alumni veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: The Department of Special Collections and Archives on the third floor of Bowdoin's Library displays his Medal of Honor, his wife's Tiffany bracelet, and many letters.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: A painting of Chamberlain at Little Round Top by noted Civil War artist Dale Gannon hangs above a fireplace on the first floor.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: Chamberlain lived here as a first-year student in 1848. He occupied room 19, which appears as the first floor windows in the southeast corner of the building.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: Chamberlain lived in rooms 32 and 21 as a sophomore, junior, and senior. Room 21 is the northwest corner of the 2nd floor and room 32 is on the fourth floor, east side.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: The oldest building on the Bowdoin campus, it once housed the entire college. As Bowdoin's president, Chamberlain occupied an office on the first floor, north side.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: Chamberlain's grave is marked with red granite stone. Enter the first gate. The grave is four lots in front of the street, on your right. Chamberlain requested a simple gravestone.
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Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: First Parish Church was designed by New York City architect Richard upjohn and constructed in 1850. Chamberlain and his family gave the large window behind the pulpit.
Bowdoin College: Chamberlain Tour: The Pejepscot Historical Society rescued Chamberlain's home from demolition in 1982. The museum is open in the summer and early fall and explores the stories of Chamberlain.