This statue of James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, the prominent Brooklyn statesman and a man who is generally regarded as the father of Prospect Park, sits inside that park on the edge of Grand Army Plaza. Stranahan serves as a delightful Dickensian counterpoint to the stern martial melange (the statues of Gens. Warren and Slocum and, of course, the arch) that faces him from inside the plaza.
It was sculpted by Frederick William MacMonnies.
The idea for the statue kindled into a flame in December of 1889 when The New York Times reported rather laboriously that “a number of prominent Brooklyn men have inaugurated a movement having for its object the erection of a statue of Jame S. T. Stranahan in Prospect Park.” Stranahan’s popularity and his integral role in the construction of Prospect Park made him a natural candidate for a monument.
On the base are several inscriptions. On the front it says:
JAMES S T STRANAHAN A CITIZEN OF BROOKLYN HONORED FOR MANY NOBLE SERVICES, MOST GRATEFULLY AS CHIEF FOUNDER OF PROSPECT PARK
Prospect Park is a treasue of Brooklyn. This area of Prospect Park is where I start my numerous training runs, family park trips, and dog walks. When you are in the GZ if there is soomeone on the grass near this statue doing sit ups it may be me ;)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Cache is NOT located on any part of the statue. You do not have to touch statue in any way to find the cache. You can gaze upon the statue for the sake of enjoyment but nothing about the statue is needed to find the cache. The cache is not touching or lacated on anything man made.
Lots of muggle traffic in the area especially Saturday morning when a green market is happening in Grand Army Plaza.
Cache is a pretty heavily camo'd. Log only. BYOP.