Whale Memorial Park

Ovid Osborn Ward, sculptor, was the great-grandson of Samuel Osborn, Jr., who owned Osborn's Wharf, now the site of the Edgartown Yacht Club, where whaleships, including his own, returned from long voyages and were outfitted to sail again to the oceans of the world. A life-size finback whale tail was created to honor Edgartown's historic whaling heritage. A lifesaving boat was built circa 1850 for the Massachusetts Humane Society, stationed at Cape Poge from 1855 to 1933, and acquired in 1933 by Captain Samuel B. Norton, who placed the boat here in 1941.

Edgartown, Massachusetts · United States