The Hiker is a historic statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson

Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson

Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson , also known as Tho. A. R. Kitson, was an American sculptor.Kitson was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a young child she displayed artistic talent, but when her mother attempted to enroll her in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she was informed that she...

, located on a traffic island at the intersection of Plymouth Avenue and Pleasant Street in Fall River, Massachusetts

Fall River, Massachusetts

Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and south of Taunton. The city's population was 88,857 during the 2010 census, making it the tenth largest city in...

. The statue was erected in 1938.

The memorial statue to the soldiers who fought in the Spanish American War and the Philippine–American War is located between the historic Crescent Mill

Crescent Mill

Crescent Mill is an historic cotton textile mill located at 30 Front Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.The mill was organized in 1871 and built in 1872 from native Fall River granite in the Italianate style. It had a capacity of 33,280 spindles. Benjamin Covel served as the company's first...

 and Durfee Mills

Durfee Mills

Durfee Mills is an historic textile mill complex located at 359-479 Pleasant Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.Mill No. 1 was built in 1866 for the manufacture of cotton cloth. The company was named in honor of Major Bradford Durfee. The mill complex is the largest, and most complete in the city....

. The base of the statue was constructed from part of the former Fall River Customhouse and Post Office which was demolished in the early 1930s.

The statue was nominated by local and state historical commissions but denied placement on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 by the Department of the Interior in 1983.

Some of the other "Hikers" are located in Woburn, MA, Cambridge, MA, Wakefield, MA, Everett, MA, Malden, MA, Ypsilanti, Michigan, on the grounds of the Michigan State Capital in Lansing, Michigan and at Arlington National Cemetery.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Fall River, Massachusetts
• Prince Henry the Navigator (statue)
  Prince Henry the Navigator (statue)
  Prince Henry the Navigator is an historic statue located on a traffic median at the intersection of Eastern Avenue and Pleasant Street in the Flint Village section of Fall River, Massachusetts....
  
  
• Fall River Granite
  Fall River granite
  Fall River Granite is a Precambrian bedrock underlying the City of Fall River, Massachusetts and surrounding areas along the eastern shores of Narragansett Bay. It was formed 600 million years ago, as part of the Avalon terrane....
  
  
• The Hiker (Kitson)
  The Hiker (Kitson)
  The Hiker is a statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Filipino-American War. The first version of it was made for the University of Minnesota in 1906...
  
  
• The Hiker (Newman)
  The Hiker (Newman)
  The Hiker is a statue made by Allen George Newman. Like Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's statue of the same name it was created to honor the American soldiers who took "long hikes in steaming jungles" during the Boxer Rebellion, the Spanish-American war and the Filipino-American War.The statue, quoted...