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Source: Boston Globe

5/22/2022

Renovations Start on Civil War Memorial Honoring the Massachusetts 54th Regiment

The renovation site will be a popup history museum as barriers will be decorated with recruitment posters, servicemen's letters, and other ephemera from the history of the Massachusetts 54th regiment of African American soldiers.

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Renovations Start on Civil War Memorial Honoring the Massachusetts 54th Regiment