Erected in 1879, this bronze statue commemorates Hannah Duston, a Haverhill woman who, along with 13 others in 1697, was captured by Native Americans.
In a daring escape, Duston attacked her captors one night with a tomahawk. It was this courageous act that earned Duston later fame as her story was retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry David Thoreau.
