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100 Cities - 100 Memorials

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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.

 

 

  • Single figure -- soldier
  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Memorial Hunter: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
400 Veteran Drive
59912 Columbia Falls
MT
USA

This memorial plaza features two P251 US military cannons (c. 1841), one of E.M. Viquesney's iconic "Spirit of the American Doughboy" statues, a dedication plaque, and a flagpole. It is located on the grounds of the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls.

The plaque reads: Dedicated to the memory of our comrades who entered the service of their country from Flathead County and who gave their lives in the World War

  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
641 Conrad Drive
59901 Kalispell
MT
USA

The memorial stands on top of a hill close to the East edge of the cemetery surrounded by numerous military graves.
On the memorial are carved the names of all the soldiers who lost their lives in the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The main pillar inscription on both front and back reads:

DEDICATED TO
THE EVERLASTING MEMORY
OF THOISE FROM
FLATHEAD COUNTY
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE SERVICE
OF THEIR COUNTRY


The World War I Memorial on the front left side of the monument contains the name of thirty-six Sons of Flathead County lost in that conflict.

  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
200 Block of Pioneer Ave West
98563 Montesano
WA
USA

This park was originally dedicated in 1948. A general Veterans Monument was originally placed and
sometime later, Veterans Memorial Walls were added. One featuring the name of World War 1 Veteran,
Lloyd A. Foss, U.S. Army.

Veterans Park Drive
35630 Florence
AL
USA
  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Memorial Hunter: David Curott
Veterans Park
35630 Florence
AL
USA

Historical Marker in Veterans Park
listing 46 Lauderdale County deaths

  • 1926
  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
Florence Veterans Park
29501 Florence
SC
USA

Erected 1928 by American Legion Rifle Platoon of Florence, under the auspices of Fred H. Sexton Post No.1 American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary.

  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Aaron Lefkowitz & Zachary Andrews
53 North Main Street
10921 Florida
NY
USA

Honoring Citizens of all Wars

  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
SW 102nd St and County Road 476B
33513 Bushnell
FL
USA

This memorial was erected in 1988 by the Veterans of World War I, Department of Florida, USA Inc. and Auxiliary.  The inscription reads:

Dedicated
To The
Florida Veterans
Of World War I
By the Dept. of Florida, USA Inc. and Auxiliary
1988

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow between the crosses row on row where buddies died so long ago.
Now that our life on earth is o’er our ship is steered toward that shore where peace doth reign forevermore.



  • Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch
Broad Street
30124 Cave Spring
GA
USA

Description:  Memorial plaza with monuments for individual wars, and with personal inscribed bricks.  An obelisk for WW1 is part of the plaza.

Inscription:  “Dedication in honor of all the veterans of Cave Springs who served in the armed services of their country.”

  • Photos courtesy of Lamar Veatch
30161 Rome
GA
USA
The grave of Private Charles Graves.

A beautiful gravesite of memorial brick pavers and guarded by two machine guns.  Graves was selected as the national "Known" soldier.  He died and was buried in France during World War I. His body was later disinterred and moved to the United States, selected to be buried at Arlington Cemetery alongside the Unknown Soldier. His mother later had his body brought home to Rome where he was buried in the family plot, and finally was reinterred by the American Legion at Myrtle Hill Cemetery. His grave is the center of the New Veterans Walkway.
  • Dedication Date: 1929
47150 New Albany
IN
USA
  • Dedication Date: September 24, 1919
47150 New Albany
IN
USA
Originally placed in the Carnegie Library in New Albany which now houses the Carnegie Center of Art and History.
  • Width: 7'
  • Depth: 3'
  • Other Measurements: Pedestal H:4'6
  • 1925
  • Dedication Date: 1925
  • Standing, winged female figure (heroic scale) on pedestal, in front of stele, benches at sides
  • Hermon Atkins MacNeil
  • Single figure -- allegorical
Memorial Field of Flushing
11354 Queens
NY
USA

 

  • Signed: 
    H A MACNEIL SCULP MCMXXV /

    Front:
    THE WORLD WAR / IN MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES /

    Side 1:
    [39 names]

    Side 2:
    [38 names]
  • Width: 27'
  • Depth: 11'
  • Other Measurements: Plaque H:3'6
  • 1935
  • Dedication Date: 1935
  • Stele and exedra with plaque
  • ohn Polachek Bronze and Iron Company
  • Other
Memorial Field of Flushing
11354 Queens
NY
USA

Stele: 
IN MEMORIAM /---/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO / MAN THAN THIS THAT / A MAN LAY DOWN HIS / LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS / ST. JOHN XV, 13 /

Plaque: 
MEMORIAL / FIELD /---/ 1917 --- THE WORLD WAR --- 1918 /---/ DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF / FLUSHING'S HEROIC DEAD / [70 names] /

Fabricator:Modern Art Foundry (replacement plaque)

  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: The Wanderer
137-58 Northern Blvd.
11354 Flushing
NY
USA

This is a lovely pink-granite memorial at a rather undignified location in the median of Northern Boulevard. Inscribed: "The World War - In memory of those who gave their lives".

54566 Wabeno
WI
USA

This memorial stands outside of the Potawatomi Carter Casino Hotel. It is composed of a series of sections made of black granite. On the middle section the Potawatomi seal is inscribed on top, followed by an inscription which reads: “In honor of Bodwē Wad Mi Nesh Na Bē She Ma Gne Shek.” And beneath the inscription, the five seals of the military are shown: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. On the left and right section of the memorial stones are inscribed the names of the veterans. Also, situated near the black granite stones is a metal statue of a Native American man sitting on the ground.

  • Dedication Date: 05/15/1921
  • 250 Forest Hill men who served in the war
  • Bronze plaque is missing (presumed stolen), so only boulder remains.
  • Plaque or tablet
Wachusett Street and Walk Hill Street
Boston
MA
USA

Bronze tablet attached to a boulder.

  • Dedication Date: 1927
  • Neo-classical structure
Golden Gate Park
94117 San Francisco
CA
USA

This is a monument in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to California foresters who performed an important role during World War I.  

The inscription on the monument reads:

To our brethren who gave their lives

1917-1919

Foresters of America of California

Erected 1927

Dedicated on Dec. 4, 1927, the monument, made of white Italian marble, was planned to serve as a fountain for people and horses. A 1951 photo from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection shows a small metal bowl affixed on the monument wall that may have been a water fountain, but it’s not present today. The large marble basin in the monument’s center bottom is both today and in the 1951 photo filled with plants and dirt, but may have been a horse trough earlier. 

For interesting background on this monument, see:  https://sfrichmondreview.com/2020/10/03/looking-back-forester-monument/

  • Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
Mendota Museum
61342 Mendota
IL
USA

Fallen Heroes Memorial Erected By The American Legion

There are two Soldiers and Sailors Memorials on the Green in front of the Mendota Museum and Historical Society building. This is the newest of the two, with no dedication date visible. It honors local service members lost in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and during Peacetime. There is a bronze American Legion emblem embedded in the concrete in front of the memorial. There is also a World War 1-era M1917 155mm Howitzer Field Artillery piece nearby.

4674 Griffin Avenue
20755 Fort Meade
MD
USA

Fort George G. Meade World War I Memorial Log Cabin

100 Cities / 100 Memorials

100c 100m wwi centennial plaque Erected at Camp Meade in 1917 by the men of the 314th Infantry Division, the cabin was constructed using trees from the forest that surrounded the post and, before the 314th was deployed to France, was used as an officers club and assembly room.  In France, the soldiers were heavily involved in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and remained in Europe until Armistice Day on November 11, 1918.  After the war, the cabin was re-erected in Valley Forge National Historical Park and then moved again back to Fort Meade in 2012.