Category: Monuments
The Original Monument to the First Bull Run
Now that the Spring has sprung, I am going to take you to some monuments away from the cities. I went to a conference at…
Second Bull Run’s Oldest Monument
People viewing this week’s monument might think they recognize it as the First Bull Run monument, but they would be wrong. This is the Second…
Abraham Lincoln Statue at New-York Historical Society
One of the most photographed statues of Abraham Lincoln is the recently erected Lincoln at the New York Historical Society. While it is frequently photographed…
Frederick Douglass Statue at New-York Historical Society
Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…
Temperance Monument Washington D.C.
The Temperance Monument and Fountain in Washington, D.C. is right next to the Grand Army of the Republic Monument on Pennsylvania Avenue. The monument was…
Civil War Monument in Pittsfield Mass. Where Ball Playing Was Not Allowed!
Pittsfield, Massachusetts is an old mill town in the Western part of the state, just a half-hour away from Albany. I drove through snow in…
Freeport Memorial Library on Long Island, N.Y.
Freeport is a lively village on Long Island’s South Shore. It has slips that access the Great South Bay and it is just a bridge…
Bridgeport Ct. Mountain Grove Cemetery Pro Patria Monument
Bridgeport was a fairly modest city at the time of the Civil War. It was known as a developing mill town and a shipping port…
Great Falls National Historic Park at Paterson NJ
Typically I take you to monuments constructed to mark historic events or to honor people directly involved in Reconstruction or the Civil War. However, I…
Union Memorial at Greenfield Cemetery Near Hempstead, N.Y.
Although I have worked in Hempstead for over thirty-five years, I did not know that a cemetery on the border between Uniondale and Hempstead has…
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