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Monument to Emma Sansom. Emma Sansom (June 2, 1847 – August 9, 1900) was an Alabama teenager and farm worker noted for her actions during the American Civil War (1861-1865), during which she assisted the defensive campaign of the mounted cavalry in the Confederate Army's then Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), during the Streight's Raid by Union Army cavalry under command ...
Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($411,305 today [1]) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was ...
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Monument (2000). Built partly with city funds, sponsored by Friends of Forrest and UDC. It was first located at the Vaughan-Smitherman Museum, but during protest over Forrest's KKK links trash was dumped on it [65] and it was damaged during an apparent attempt to remove the bust from its foundation. It was then ...
Confederate monument, downtown Hemming Park (1898) [173] [32]: 34 "The president of Jacksonville City Council, Anna Lopez Brosche, called for all Confederate monuments to be moved from city property to a museum. The most prominent Confederate memorial in Jacksonville is a statue of a Confederate soldier that sits atop a towering pillar in ...
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...
Sugarloaf Mound is the only one that remains of the original approximately 40 mounds in St. Louis. The mounds were constructed by Native Americans that lived in the St. Louis area from about 600 to 1300 AD, the same civilization that built the mounds at Cahokia. Sugarloaf Mound is on the National Register of Historic Places. [7]
The area now comprising Benton Park proper was first used as the City Cemetery, from 1842–1865. [3] Those buried in the cemetery were relocated in 1865, and the neighborhood was created on June 25, 1866, by city ordinance. [4] The site of the park was originally 17 acres, but was reduced to 14 1/3 acres to accommodate perimeter streets.
A view of the city of St. Louis from the observation room of the St. Louis Arch Bi-State put in $3.3 million revenue bonds and has operated the tram system since. [ 119 ] The tram in the north leg entered operation in June 1967, [ 76 ] but visitors were forced to endure three-hour-long waits until April 21, 1976, when a reservation system was ...