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Council meetings continued to be held at the town hall, where the main room on the first floor was converted for use as a council chamber in 1934. [3] The town hall and the municipal offices at the White House remained the local seat of government after the old council was reformed in 1974 to become Tamworth Borough Council. [12] [13]
General Sherman Hall; honors service of William T. Sherman 1892; Memorial Statue; 19 foot tall granite and bronze monument of Sherman unveiled Nov. 23 1894; 4 Civil War Cannon; "whether it was idle curiosity or absence of thought that caused Phil Schaller to fire one of the cannon to awaken the town on July 4, 1895, one will never know.
It originally served as a Citizens' Military Training Camp from 1925 to 1941, a camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1933 to 1941, and a Prisoner of War camp from 1944 to 1945. The district includes six warehouses, five mess halls, five lavatories, a branch exchange, butcher shop, latrine, and 360 concrete tent pads.
Colin Grazier, GC (7 May 1920 – 30 October 1942) was a sailor in the Royal Navy who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the eastern Mediterranean when capturing codebooks vital for the breaking of the German naval "Shark" Enigma cipher from the sinking ...
The Indiana World War Memorial Plaza is an urban feature and war memorial located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, originally built to honor the veterans of World War I. [3] It was conceived in 1919 as a location for the national headquarters of the American Legion and a memorial to the state's and nation's veterans.
In 1911, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was dedicated at Greenlawn Cemetery during a Memorial Day service with around 300 people in attendance. [3] In 1919, Indiana Senator Harry Elliott Negley proposed that the monument be moved from its unsightly location to that of a public park; possibly University or Military Park. [4]
Limestone tablets above the bronze entrance doors on the north and south sides of the obelisk bear inscriptions commemorating Indiana's soldiers who served in the American Revolutionary War and the capture of Vincennes from the British in 1779, the War of 1812 and related Indian wars (1811–12), the Mexican–American War (1846–48), and the ...
English: The Town Hall, Market Place, Tamworth Built in 1701 by Thomas Guy, M.P. for the town. It is of mellow brick with arcades at ground level, large Jacobean windows and a steeply-pitched roof topped by a cupola. (The Shell Guide to England, 1970) It once housed the Butter Market and was used to store the town s fire engine.