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, 1928
- Ernest Moore Viquesney
- Single figure -- soldier
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
Located at the William E. Moore
Historic City Hall Building
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Marian “Mick” Hersey
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
In 1998, World War 2 Navy veteran Ken Koehnen approached
the City of Excelsior to build an Excelsior War Memorial. After
8 years of work with the help of American Legion Post #259
and the City Council, the Veterans Memorial Garden &
Monument were dedicated on August 12, 2008.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
This memorial is a statue of a uniformed World War I soldier standing erect with his left hand on his hip and his right holding his hat. Behind the soldier stands a classical female figure wearing a robe, she is holding an American flag in her left hand. The sculpture was created by renowned sculptor Daniel Chester French. The statues stand on a granite base inscribed:
With
Veneration For Those Who Died
Gratitude To Those Who Live
Trust In The Patriotism Of Those Who Come After
The Town Of Exeter Dedicates This Memorial
To Her Sons And Daughters Of The World War
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
Dedicated on November 11, 1922, the inscription on this memorial reads:
1917 - 1919
In Memoriam
Of
Our Fallen Heroes
In
The World War
“They Are In Some Special Sense
Soldiers Of Freedom”
Alden Clark
Michael S. Haddad
Erected by the citizens of Sandwich
November 11, 1922
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
The inscription on this memorial reads:
Erected by the
Citizens of Falls Township
to commemorate the
patriotic service of
these men & women in
The World War
1917 - 1919
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- Dedication Date: 1946
- Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch
Rectangular granite monument topped with a large globe. The WW1 side of the monolith contains 13 names. “Dedicated to the Memory of Our Men of Fannin County Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice. Erected by the McCaysville Garden Club, 1946.”
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- Dedication Date: November 9, 2002
- Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch
Multiple monument park with an individual monolith for each war. 13 Fannin County names are inscribed on the WW1 monument. Vietnam era helicopter on display in park.
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- Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch and Jim Cavin
- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Memorial Hunter: Jim Cavin
This memorial is located in City Park in downtown Blue Ridge. It was dedicated on October 21, 1937 to Fannin County soldiers who fought in the Great War. Later, additional sides of the obelisk were dedicated to the fallen from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
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This marble sculpture, located within the Presbyterian Church cemetery, was erected in memory of Peter V. Farley who died in battle on September 26, 1918. The monument consists of a uniformed WWI doughboy, standing at rest, holding the barrel of a rifle with both hands, the butt resting at his feet. The figure is placed on an attenuated granite base.
Narrative adapted from Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) inventory #NJ000235.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: April Earle
Planted on June 4, 1921 as a memorial to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Great War, the Memorial Oak has come to stand as a symbol of the College's fortitude as well as that of the student body. The white oak was planted using soil from all U.S. states and territories as well as from all of the Allied Nations.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Dan Pempel
Honor of the Members of the Farmville Baptist Church Memorial who served during the Great War 1917-1918.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Aaron Lefkowitz
Artist: Charles Keck
Dedicated: May 7, 1937
Military Chaplain to the 69th Infantry Regiment "Fighting Sixty Ninth" of the 42nd Infantry Division "Rainbow Division"
Inscription:
Front:
FATHER DUFFY /
Back:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL / FRANCES P. DUFFY / MAY 2, 1871 - JUNE 26, 1932 / CATHOLIC PRIEST / CHAPLIN / 165TH U.S. INFANTRY / OLD 69TH N.Y. / A LIFE OF SERVICE / FOR GOD AND COUNTRY / SPANISH AMERICAN WAR / NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD / MEXICAN BORDER / WORLD WAR / DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS / DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL / CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS / LEGION D'HONNEUR / CROIX DE GUERRE /
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- Other Measurements: Pedestal H:3'7
- May 7, 1937
- Dedication Date: May 7, 1937
- Father Duffy Memorial Committee (figure); Works Progress Administration
- Standing figure (over life size) before a Celtic cross, on a pedestal, on a base, on a platform with seat at rear, approached by three steps
- Charles Keck
- Single figure -- soldier
Front:
FATHER DUFFY /
Back:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL / FRANCES P. DUFFY / MAY 2, 1871 - JUNE 26, 1932 / CATHOLIC PRIEST / CHAPLIN / 165TH U.S. INFANTRY / OLD 69TH N.Y. / A LIFE OF SERVICE / FOR GOD AND COUNTRY / SPANISH AMERICAN WAR / NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD / MEXICAN BORDER / WORLD WAR / DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS / DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL / CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS / LEGION D'HONNEUR / CROIX DE GUERRE /
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- Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch
Granite memorial adjacent to the historic 1825 Fayette County Courthouse.
It honors those that died in WW1, WWII, Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Three names are listed for WW1.
Inscription: Erected by the citizens of Fayette County in honor of our veterans who served in the armed forces of the United States of American and as a lasting memorial to these gallant servicemen who gave their lives that we may live in peace. The emblems of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars all are inscribed.