Focus on Statue of John Bridge and explain the Description.
The statue weighs 1800 pounds.The figure is about nine feet and so is the pedestal.The front of the statue's plinth reads:JOHN BRIDGE  •   1578–1665  •   left braintree, essex county, england. 1631  •   as a member of rev. mr. hooker's company  •   settled here 1632  •   and stayed when that company  •   removed to connecticut.  •   he had supervision of the first public school  •   established in cambridge 1635  •   was selectman 1635–1652  •   deacon of the church 1636–1658  •   representative to the great and general court 1637–1641  •   and was appointed by that body to lay out lands  •   in this town and beyond. 
The other three faces read:THIS PURITAN  •   helped to establish here  •   church school  •   and representative government  •   and thus to plant  •   a Christian commonwealth. 
Erected  •   and given to the city  •   september 20, 1882  •   by Samuel James Bridge  •   of the sixth generation  •   from John Bridge. 
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."
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