This memorial is located within the Swinomish Veterans Cemetery. It is made of black granite and bears the names of WWI and WWII veterans.

The inscription on this memorial reads:

THIS TABLET PERPETUATES THE MEMORY OF THE
SWISSVALE MEN AND WOMEN
WHO SERVED HONORABLY IN THE WORLD WAR
1917 -- 1919

LET AMERICANS OF THIS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS REMEMBER THAT AMERICA TAUGHT THEM HOW TO LIVE AND HOW TO DIE AND SHE WILL PRESERVE FOR HER CHILDREN THE PRICELESS MEMORY OF THEIR SACRIFICE, HEROISM AND DEATH

[listing of names]

ERECTED BY THE BOROUGH OF SWISSVALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

The TA Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant produced & shipped ammunition for overseas military action during World War I. It was one of the largest facilities of its kind at the time.

On October 4, 1918, the plant exploded, killing approximately 100 people, destroying 300 buildings & causing $18 million in damages. The series of explosions continued for two days – an estimated 12,000,000 pounds (5,400 tons) of explosives were destroyed.

The devastation forced reconstruction of adjacent towns of South Amboy & Sayreville. According to a 1919 government report, the explosion destroyed enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for six months.

The plant had begun production just three months earlier, and the war itself ended just one month after the explosion.

The totality of the event ranked as one of the largest man-made, non-nuclear explosions in history. The strongest individual blast broke windows as far away as Manhattan & Asbury Park, more than 25 miles distant.

After the war, the company was renamed Gillespie Motor Company in 1919, merged to form Gillespie-Eden Corporation in 1920, and disappeared sometime after 1923.

See post (below):  TA Gillespie Loading Company Explosion Memorial & Mass Grave - Parlin. 

Photos courtesy of:
Gillespie Ammunitions Complex Blueprint - National Archives
Gillespie Ammunitions Complex Diagram - US Army Corp of Engineers 

It was in 1918, at 7:40pm when the first of a series of explosions spanning two days went off in Building 6-1-1 of the TA Gillespie Shell Loading Plant in rural Morgan, NJ.  The building contained equipment which melted and poured Amatol - a Trinitrotoluol (TNT)-based explosive - into 155mm artillery shells for shipment to France for use in WWI. 

The remains of 14-18 unfortunate souls, who were so badly disintegrated by the blasts, were buried in a mass grave in nearby Ernst Memorial Cemetery (Parlin, NJ).  The task of trying to identify the unidentifiable and to witness & certify each burial fell to South Amboy resident, Michael Nagel, who later became the Commander of American Legion Luke A. Lovely Post #62. 

In 1929, 11 years after the blast, the South Amboy Lions Club erected this monument at the site of the 20' x 35' grave. 

Narrative adapted from Morgan, NJ website. 

Photos courtesy of:
Gillespie Explosion crater 1918 & Power House - Atlas Obscura
Locomotive - National Archives
Morgan residents fleeing - New York Times 
Monument - NJ State Historic Preservation Office

EVANS ROAD

NAMED IN MEMORY OF

2D LIEUTENANT EDWIN V. EVANS, D.S.C.

F CO. 16TH INFANTRY

KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE

JULY 20, 1918

ERECTED BY

THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE WORLD WARS

NEW YORK CHAPTER 

The Talerhoff Internment Camp Memorial was erected in 1964 by members of the Russian-American community to pay tribute to the memory of the men & women placed in the Austrian camp during World War I. 

Jackson, NJ has a Russian community due to the employees at the Russian ordinance proving grounds in adjacent Lakehurst, NJ.  These were "White Russians," originating from Minsk (today's Belarus) around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.  These citizens formed the Russian Consolidated Mutual Aid Society of America (ROVA), who helped create this memorial. 

This monument consists of a granite tapered pillar atop a two-tiered rectangular stone base.  It has two identical sides - one in English, the other in Russian - consisting of a relief of the Russian Orthodox cross encircled in a laurel wreath above an inscription dedicating the monument. 

Photos courtesy of:  Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission 

Sculpted by Joseph R Pollia, this ten foot tall memorial features a WWI soldier standing at a gravesite, with his eyes gazing down at a grave. His left foot is on a small mound of dirt, and his left hand rests on his knee. He holds in his hands his rifle and helmet. It was dedicated on May 30, 1927, as a tribute to those who died in WWI and all from Tarrytown who served.

This is a gray limestone soldier, approximately 13 feet tall, wearing a World War I uniform and standing on a marble base. On the front of the base is an inscription honoring Taylor County Veterans. On the other sides are lists of names of war dead from WWI, WWII, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Two stone figures approximately six feet tall stand next to each other atop a seven fool tall stone base. The bearded one is from the Civil War, holds a gun in front of him and has his hand on the other's shoulder. The other is from WWI is younger and has one hand on the barrel of the gun, with the other one raised. This was dedi­cated to the memory of "our country's defenders" in the Civil War, Spanish-American War and WWI and to "Fraternity, Charity, Loy­alty."

This Temple of Victory Monument, located at Manalapan's Old Tennent Church Cemetery, is dedicated to Monmouth County residents who lost their lives in World War I. 

It consists of an elaborate Barre granite canopy supported by four corner Doric columns, resting on two, tiered, square concrete slabs.  The base is 10' square; the dome is 14' high.  The canopy consists of a round ceiling slab with angled square corner blocks, decorated with stars & crossed weapons. 

Standing under the canopy is a stone slab with slanted upper surface commemorating the monument. 

The designers & builders were LL Manning & Son of Plainfield, NJ.  The monument was dedicated on November 21, 1920 with an address by New York lawyer, Howard R. Cruse.  The Camp Vail band performed. 

Photo courtesy of:  NJ State Historic Preservation Office

This fountain memorial, was originally topped by an Italian marble statue of a figure holding a torch.  It was erected on the grounds of Trenton Junior High School #3 (presently Trenton High School West) as a memorial to Russell Terradell of Trenton & other Trenton men who gave their lives during World War I.  The memorial was dedicated on July 4, 1925. 

It was a gift of Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, sister of Mr. Terradell.  The basin & base of the monument were designed by Samuel Mountford.

Photos courtesy of:  NJ State Historic Preservation Office

This monument was erected in honor of the young switchboard operator at the munitions plant of the Canadian Car & Foundry Company near Kingsland. Glancing out the window in her workplace, she noticed a wisp of smoke curling from the eaves of Building 30 where 200 gallons of gasoline were stored.

Back at her switchboard, she connected with shed after shed, giving the message that there was a fire in Shed 30 and that all men should leave the area as soon as possible.  As she made her final calls, shells started to explode, and one shell piece came through the roof, grazing her.  She fainted.  Several fireman dragged the unconscious young woman out of the range of the explosions and loaded her into an automobile to be driven to the hospital.  Ms. McNamara lived until 1971. 

Photo courtesy of:  Bill Coughlin & Historical Marker Database

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In memory of the men from Bowie County, Texas and Miller County, Arkansas, who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of their country in the World War 1917-1918. They and their comrades fought not for selfish gain nor for one foot of added territory, but for the highest ideal ever upheld by man -- the peace of the world. This monument is a symbol of the praise and gratitude which they so justly merit which will forever be accorded them by their countrymen. Erected by the Texarkana Memorial Unit, an organization of women banded together to honor their loyalty, their service and their sacrifice. November 1936.

The 1799 Lazaretto is located on the site of the 1st permanent European settlement in Pennsylvania.  Its roles as a quarantine station sixth oldest in the world, 19th century river side resort, religious center, very early civilian 20th century seaplane aviation training center, Chandler Field was a WW 1 US Army Signal Corps base, and 20th century civilian seaplane base and marina arguably makes it one of the most unique Cultural Landscapes in the world.

North side

93RD ST DIVISION (US) 369TH INFANTRY REGIMENT (15TH REG-NYG) (COLORED) IN MEMORY 1918 MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE RIPONT MONT-CUVELET SECHAULT 26 SEP - 1OCT

South side

161 ST DIVISION (FR) [Insignia] 369TH INFANTRY REGIMENT (15TH REG- NYG) (COLORED) IN MEMORY 1918 MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE RIPONT MONT-CUVELET SECHAULT 26 SEP - 1OCT