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[A fiberglass mule statue mounted on a 17,000-pound boulder at the corner of Beaver and Canal Street]
The mule, purchased by Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation in 2003, was donated for exhibition to Bernard Mazzocchi III, owner of Canal Works. Pictured left to right is Bernard Mazzocchi IV, Bernard Mazzocchi III, Briana Mazzocchi-Lafferty, and Kim Garrison. -
[Installation of Michael Dougherty statue at the Delaware Canal Lagoon Park]
The sculptor, James Gafgen, is seen wiping off the newly mounted statue. Others unidentified. The statue was dedicated May 12, 2001 following Mass at Saint Mark Church and appropriate graveside ceremonies at his grave behind the church. The artist was from Morrisville.
Mr. Dougherty died at age 86 in 1930. Michael Dougherty was born in 1844 in Ireland and emigrated to the U.S. In 1861 he volunteered for the Union Army in the Civil War. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1897. His diary of his time in the army included detailed accounts of time spent in three prisons and his narrow escape from drowning when a riverboat, returning 2,400 former Union prisoners, exploded and sank. Only 900 survived.