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* For the Town's 350th anniversary, the Town requisitioned a painting of the seal for the selectman's meeting room.  Kristoffel Meulen, then a high school senior, was chosen.   
* For the Town's 350th anniversary, the Town requisitioned a painting of the seal for the selectman's meeting room.  Kristoffel Meulen, then a high school senior, was chosen.   


[[Image:TownofAndoverPlainSealAnnualReport1898|thumb|...''Plain Town Seal from the 1898 Annual Report''.... click to enlarge|center]]
[[Image:Town_Seal.jpg|thumb|...''From 1/30/2014 Townsman''.... click to enlarge|left]]
[[Image:Town_Seal.jpg|thumb|...''From 1/30/2014 Townsman''.... click to enlarge|left]]
[[Image:seal.jpg|thumb|...''Cocoanut and Decoration Day''.... click to enlarge|left]]
[[Image:seal.jpg|thumb|...''Cocoanut and Decoration Day''.... click to enlarge|left]]
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* [https://archive.org/details/annualreportofto1901ando/mode/2up Town of Andover Mass, Annual Report. 1901] ''Reflects vote to formally adopt new seal''  
* [https://archive.org/details/annualreportofto1901ando/mode/2up Town of Andover Mass, Annual Report. 1901] ''Reflects vote to formally adopt new seal''  
* "Sealed with Historical Inaccuracies," ''Andover Townsman'', February 1, 2007.
* "Sealed with Historical Inaccuracies," ''Andover Townsman'', February 1, 2007.
*"Andover's town seal tells many stories," ''Andover Townsman'', January 30, 2014, p. 7.
* [https://www.andovertownsman.com/opinion/andovers-town-seal-tells-many-stories/article_827fd7bc-b69d-5ebf-bddb-636106bf54bd.html  Andover's town seal tells many stories], ''Andover Townsman'', January 30, 2014, p. 7.
* [https://mvlc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/andover/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:58437/one ''Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996''] by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 188.
* [https://mvlc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/andover/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:58437/one ''Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996''] by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 188.
* [https://mvlc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/andover/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:361302/one Andover: Symbol of New England], by Claude Moore Fuess,(974.45 Fuess), page 373.
* [https://mvlc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/andover/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:361302/one Andover: Symbol of New England], by Claude Moore Fuess,(974.45 Fuess), page 373.

Revision as of 18:31, 23 February 2021

  • According to tradition, the land comprising both the North and South Parishes of Andover was purchased from Cutshamache, the Sagamore of Massachusetts, for six English pounds and a coat. This event is commemorated in the town seal, which was officially adoped at the annual meeting on March 5, 1900. It is generally believed that the new seal was designed by Leonard Sherman, a local artist, photographer and nature writer. However, there were no Native Americans in New England tribes that ever wore such an elaborate headdress.
  • The original town seal included just text: the town name, state, and date of incorporation.
  • In 1895, John E. Whiting, a local jewler, designed a porcelin pin depicting the sale of the land that was to become Andover from the Indians as a souvenir for the Town's 250th anniversary.
  • A banner was also commissioned using the same picture. Andover's 250th Anniversary Banner
  • For the Town's 350th anniversary, the Town requisitioned a painting of the seal for the selectman's meeting room. Kristoffel Meulen, then a high school senior, was chosen.
File:TownofAndoverPlainSealAnnualReport1898
...Plain Town Seal from the 1898 Annual Report.... click to enlarge
...From 1/30/2014 Townsman.... click to enlarge
...Cocoanut and Decoration Day.... click to enlarge
...Advertisement for JE Whiting's Souvenir Pin
...Souvenir Pin from a private collection




See

  • There is a color picture of the seal on the Andover Finance Report for 1976.


--Stephanie (talk) 16:57, 23 February 2021 (EST)

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