100 Cities - 100 Memorials
Memorial Inventory Project: There is one other existing partial database to consult - The WWI Memorial Inventory Project [CLICK HERE]. It contains some memorials our map doesn't. The listings on this database are fair game for the Memorial Hunters Club. So if you want to search for treasure from your desk - find missing listings here and submit them. Remember though, you will need to come up with pictures and the history of the memorial. You might be able to hunt that down through www.Proquest.com and Google.
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- Dedication Date: November 11, 1929
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
In 1924, the football stadium at the University of Texas was first dedicated as a memorial to the nearly 200,000 Texans who served in WWI.
This memorial is made up of two parts -- a bronze statue of Democracy on a pedestal with a bronze plaque and a set of large bronze tablets behind her listing the names of all 5280 Texans (male and female) who died in military or national service during WWI.
The plaque in the base of the monument reads as follows:
To honor the memory of all the Texas men and women who lost their lives in the service of their country during the World War.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
The memorial was re-dedicated in November 1977 to honor all veterans.
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- Dedication Date: 1921
- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: thewanderer
This memorial consists of a bronze tablet mounted on a granite base that lists the names of the thirty-nine residents of Davidson County that died in or as a result of World War I. The monument includes the names of African American soldiers, although they are separated from the list of their white counterparts. Around the base of the memorial are several cannonballs.
As early as April 16, 1919, Davidson County wanted to commemorate the service and deaths of those citizens that had fought in WWI. They planned and raised funds for two celebrations, promising the leftover money to the memorial fund. Initial planning began in June of the same year with the meeting of a memorial committee and the idea of creating a memorial hospital. The second of the two planned celebrations never occurred, and the money raised was given to the memorial association. By October of 1921, the association had determined that the memorial would be a monument placed in Lexington Square, but the plan of the bronze tablet on granite marker was not finalized until December.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
Of the many monuments dedicated throughout Utah, the most noted and probably the most frequently visited are the monuments in Memory Grove Park, along City Creek, in Salt Lake City. The Davis County Veterans Memorial is housed in the old Davis County Courthouse in Farmington, Utah. The building was built in 1931-1932 as an expansion of an older courthouse and space for a war memorial was incorporated into the building's expansion design. Included was a space for a stained glass window tribute to the county's veterans. The beautiful art work memorializes (in its inscription) veterans of the Civil War, the Black Hawk Indian Troubles, the Spanish American War and Philippines Insurrection and World War I. The stained glass scene depicts a victorious angel heralding the efforts of a sailor and soldier, who are holding the flag of the United States over the world. The memorial contains the inscription: THEY WHO SACRIFICE MOST LIVE LONGEST IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE.
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- Other Measurements: Pedestal H:5' W:12' D:11' Tablet H:2'4
- July 13, 1924
- Dedication Date: July 13, 1924
- Kings County Chapter of the American Legion.
- Standing male figure (heroic scale) with integral plinth on pedestal raised on three steps, tablet
- American Art Foundry, New York
- Pietro Montana
- Single figure -- soldier
- IN HONOR / OF THOSE / WHO FOUGHT FOR / OUR COUNTRY / 1917-1918
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- Dedication Date: November 11, 2005
- Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch
Park with large memorial wall inscribed with names from the Civil War to recent confilcts. The WW1 section contains forty-four names. Inscriptions on adjacent plaque: “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – President John F. Kennedy” “Welcome To All Veterans Who Have Protected Our Nation Through Military Service in Time of War. Dedicated November 11, 2005”
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This is a full-length bronze statue of a WWI soldier, sculpted by Anton Schaaf (1869-1943). He wears a combat uniform and helmet, and holds a rifle with a fixed bayonet, and appears to be striding forward. It was dedicated in 1923 to honor all who served in World War I.
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- Width: 12
- Other Measurements: Plinth H:10
- Charles & Frank Trapani Twins Post No. 4658, V.F.W.
- Plaque embedded in plinth
- Plaque or tablet
IN GRATEFUL / REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE FROM THIS COMMUNITY / WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / IN WORLD WAR II / ERECTED BY THE / CHARLES AND
FRANK TRAPANI TWINS / POST #4658 V.F.W.
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- Dedication Date: May 29, 1989
- Photos courtesy of Keith Smith
Black granite monument - Dedicated May 29, 1989 - Veterans of Vietnam War Post 5 - Bainbridge - Georgia. Inscription: “An Eternal Testament to Those Who Served from Decatur County - These Brave Men Made The Supreme Sacrifice With Valor And Devotion.”
There are twenty five names in the WW1 section of the monument.
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- Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia Collection, dec097.
The bridge was Federal Aid Project 201; begun in 1922 by the State Highway Department with W.R. Neel as State Engineer; Prayton, Howton, and Wood Contracting Company; and the Pensacola Shipbuilding Company as builders. These contractors gave up after experiencing difficulty establishing permanent foundations. The bridge was completed by the Hardaway Contracting Company and the Atlantic Bridge Company in 1926. It was torn down ca. 1976-1977, and a new bridge was constructed in its place.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Tom Ryan
The memorial name is PAX (peace)
Information:
http://fwallen.com/portfolio/dedham-war-memorial-monument-1931/
"A large crowd gathered for the dedication ceremony of a memorial erected to honor those Dedham soldiers who died in the service of their country in the World War. The crowd was “reminded that the monument was for the people of Dedham, for those who had passed on, and those who were to follow.” (Dedham Transcript May 22, 1931)"
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Placed here in 1923 is a boulder, approximately 6x4x5 feet, on top of which is a bronze spread-winged eagle. It commemorates the men and women of Deep River who served in World War I.
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- Dedication Date: August 13, 1939
- Single figure -- soldier
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Dell Rapids Veterans Memorial Park
100 Cities / 100 Memorials
The Dell Rapids Veterans Memorial Park pays tribute to all who have served in each branch of the military. The park includes memorial war sites for the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Enduring Freedom and Fallen Soldier Memorial.
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A granite marker has attached to it a bronze plaque in memory of the 118 Dighton men who served in WWI. It was dedicated on November 11, 1935, about 150 feet from where it now sits.
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The D.C. War Memorial was designed by Architect Frederick H. Brooke, with associate architects Nathan C. Wyeth and Horace W. Peaslee; all three were veterans of the Great War. A circular, open-air, Doric structure built almost entirely of Vermont marble, the memorial has an overall height of 47 feet and a diameter of 44 feet, large enough to accommodate the entire U.S. Marine Band. It was intended that the structure be a memorial and a bandstand and that each concert would be a tribute to those who served and sacrificed in the war. The memorial stands on a four feet high circular marble platform around which are inscribed the names of 499 Washington residents who died in service during World War I. The names were inscribed on the face of the platform in alphabetical order with no distinction made to rank, race, or gender. The D.C. War Memorial is the only District memorial on the National Mall. It symbolizes the unique distinction of Washington, D.C. as a local entity even though it is the Federal City. Construction was completed in 1931 and the memorial was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on the national observance of Armistice Day, November 11, 193. World War I veterans, Gold Star Mothers, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans made up some of the thousands in attendance for the the dedication. Thousands more across the country listened to the live radio coverage. Other notable attendees were General John. J. Pershing and John Philip Sousa, a native Washingtonian and the former conductor of the U.S. Marine Band.
The inscription reads: The names of the men and women from the District of Columbia who gave their lives in the World War are here inscribed as a perpetual record of their patriotic service to their country. Those who fell and those who survived have given to this and to future generations an example of high idealism, courageous sacrifice, and gallant achievement.
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- Other Measurements: 45' diameter
- 1931
- 1931
- Dedication Date: 11/11/1931
- DC citizens
- public
- 155000
- Frank B. Noyes, an ardent supporter of the construction of a memorial and president of the Associated Press and Evening Star, was elected chairman of the Commission. The other members of the Commission were Joseph E. Berberich, Charles A. Baker, Edward F. Colladay, John Joy Edson, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Robert N. Harper, Isaac Gans, Col. E. Lester Jones, Arthur D. Marks, James F. Oyster, Roland S. Robbins, Edgar D. Shaw, Hubert Suter, W.B. Westlake, Gen. Anton Stephan, J.R. McDonald, and Gist Blair, and Edward B. McLean.
- James Baird Co., contractor
- The 26,000 DC residents who served in the war.
- The names inscribed around the base are done listed alphabetically, without mention of rank, color, or gender. Among the listed is Lt George Seibold. His mother founded the Gold Star Mothers after she had trouble learning of his fate, and then discovered that other mothers were also suffering. The story is mentioned in the Historic Park View Walking Tour: http://www.wdchumanities.org/docs/2012DCCHP/ParkViewFinal.pdf
- National Park Service
- Neo-classical structure
Designed in the form of a circular Greek temple (tholos), the memorial is an open-air, white marble, Doric structure intended to serve as a bandstand. A peristyle of 12 fluted Doric columns supports (without bases) supports an inscribed six-foot-tall entablature and, above that, a domed roof. The floor (stylobate) is decorated with white and pink tiles; at the center is a bronze escutcheon featuring an eagle in low relief.
The names of the men and women from the District of Columbia who gave their lives in the World War are here inscribed as a perpetual record of their patriotic service to their country. Those who fell and those who survived have given to this and to future generations an example of high idealism courageous sacrifice and gallant achievement

































