The first president oversees the goings-on in an area known as Market Square in downtown Houlton from atop his highly polished black marble plinth in an island in the square. The bust of Washington and plinth were gifted to the citizens of the state of Maine by several Masonic Lodges and the Grand Commandery of Maine in 1999. This is fitting, as George Washington himself was a Freemason.
On the rear of the plinth is a quote of Washington's, taken from a prayer he presented in 1783. It reads as follows:
"ALMIGHTY GOD, WE MAKE OUR
EARNEST PRAYER THAT THOU
WILT ... INCLINE THE HEARTS OF
THE CITIZENS ... TO ENTERTAIN
A BROTHERLY AFFECTION AND
LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER
AND FOR THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS
OF THE UNITED STATES AT LARGE."
WOR. BRO. GEORGE WASHINGTON
FROM A PRAYER DATED 1783