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The General Slocum disaster memorial in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan, New York City, which was once part of the Little Germany neighborhood Historical marker in Astoria Park, Queens, overlooking the Hell Gate section of the East River, past where the burning ship began to sink General Slocum token in the collection at the Mariners' Museum in ...
The equestrian statue of Henry Warner Slocum is a monumental statue in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza, in New York City.The equestrian statue, designed by sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies, was dedicated in 1905 in honor of Henry Warner Slocum, who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later as a U.S. Representative from the state of New York.
Adella Liebenow Wotherspoon (November 28, 1903 – January 26, 2004) was the youngest and last living survivor of the General Slocum ship disaster of June 15, 1904. Birth and siblings [ edit ]
General Winfield Scott Hancock, by Frank Edwin Ellwell, Cemetery Hill, 1896. Major-General Slocum, by Edward Clark Potter, Steven's Knoll, Gettysburg Battlefield 1898. General John F. Reynolds, by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Gettysburg Battlefield, 1898–99. General John Sedgwick, by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Gettysburg Battlefield, 1910–13.
Equestrian statues of Slocum are located at Steven's Knoll and Culp's Hill, Gettysburg battlefield (dedicated on September 19, 1902), and in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York (dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1905). A steamship, the General Slocum, was named for him; it had a disastrous fire on board in 1904 with much loss of life.
The victims of the 1904 fire on the steamboat General Slocum—which caused around 1,000 fatalities—are memorialized at the cemetery, where 61 unknown victims were buried. [13] PS General Slocum steamboat fire mass memorial – commemorates the 1,021 victims of a 1904 disaster, 61 of whom are buried at the cemetery [13]
In the western portion of the park, along Shore Boulevard, is a memorial dedicated to World War I victims. [10] [11] There is also a plaque commemorating the PS General Slocum, [12] which caught fire and sunk in the Hell Gate in 1904, [7] [13] [14] killing over a thousand people. [15]
On June 15, 1904, St Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church organized their 17th annual picnic to commemorate the end of the school year. A large paddlewheeler, the General Slocum, was chartered for a cruise on the East River to a picnic site on Long Island, and over 1,300 passengers, mostly women and children, participated in the event.