Clara Barton
(Upper Plaque):During the Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862
Clara Barton brought supplies
and nursing aid to the wounded
on this battlefield.
The act of love and mercy
led to the birth of the present
American
National Red Cross
(Lower Plaque):This symbolic red cross has been made from a brickfrom the chimney of the home where Clara Barton was born at North Oxford, Massachusetts on Christmas Day, 1821.
Marker is on Mansfield Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
