Richard Vines Monument
Criterion A: Social History
Criterion C: Art
Criterion Consideration F: Commemorative Property
Period of Significance: 1909 - 1932
Local Level of Significance
The Richard Vines Monument is a granite and bronze memorial commemorating the 'first time' Europeans over wintered on the shores of what became Biddeford, York County, Maine. The marker was designed and erected in 1909 by William E. Barry, an architect, researcher, artist and writer who lived in Kennebunk, Maine.