As a commander of the Woburn militia, Major Loammi Baldwin, went to Concord on April 19, 1775 where he fought at the Battle of Bloody Angle. He later served in the 26th Continental Regiment, rising to the rank of Colonel. An engineer and inventor, Baldwin worked on the development of the Middlesex Canal and propagated the Baldwin apple, at one time the most popular apple in the world. Created by Herbert Adams in 1917 and dedicated on April 19, 1920, the six-foot-tall Loammi Baldwin Statue rests on a four foot square pink granite base that is six feet tall and contains five bronze plaques that provide a biography of his life reading:

Loammi Baldwin
Patriot
Public Official
Born January 21, 1745, N.S.
in North Woburn
Massachusetts
Died October 20, 1807

Below a plaque is inscribed:

Erected in compliance with the will
of his granddaughter
Catherine Rumford Griffith
by his great-grandsons Roswell Park
Loammi Franklin Baldwin and Baldwin Coolidge
Executors and Trustees
A.D. MCMXVII

A plaque on the west side of the base is inscribed:

A participant with the
rank of Major
in the Battles of
Lexington and Concord
A Colonel of
the 26th Regiment of
the Continental Army
with General Washington
during the occupation
of New York
and in the Battle
of Trenton

A plaque on the east side of the base is inscribed:

One of the proprietors
and
a principal constructor
of the Middlesex Canal
A member of
the Committee to Sign
the Paper Money of
Massachusetts Bay Colony
First Sheriff of
Middlesex County
under the State Constitution
A leader of affairs
in Woburn

A plaque on the back of the base has the relief image of an apple surrounded by a wreath and is inscribed:

Baldwin Apple
Disseminator of the apple
in honor of him called
The Baldwin
which proceeded from a tree
originally growing wild
about two miles north
of this monument