Category: Monuments
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…
Yale University Civil War Memorial Hall
In 1895, the Yale Daily News, a student newspaper, began campaigning for Yale to honor its students who fought and died in the Civil War…
Brewster NY Civil War Monument
Brewster is a small village in New York’s Hudson Valley. I visited its Civil War Monument in January of this year. As has been the…
Soldiers’ Monument of Waterbury, Conn.
The Waterbury Soldiers’ Monument in Western Connecticut is a monumental sculptural work that demands better care and preservation. Dedicated on October 23, 1884 at the…
Sojourner Truth Memorial at Northampton, Mass.
In the Summer I went up into the Hudson Valley to see a statue of Sojourner Truth as a young woman. In the Fall I…
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