Monuments and Memorials Pointless Prize

[CBGanimal]

1/7/2022 Monuments.

Dedicated to the fabulous world of reading! Outside of a school and it’s library in Torrejon, Spain

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[CaseyKane50]

1/7/2022 Monuments

Located at the junction of Homes Run Parkway and South Pickett Street
Alexandria, Virginia

This park is a memorial to Alexandria veterans of all wars. It includes the name of James Marx, who led the effort to get the park dedicated to Alexandria’s veterans. He passed away just after the park was named All-Veterans and his name was subsequently added.

[Dachs6]

A monument to the keepers of the Sonian Forest (Forêt de Soignes) that in the southern part of Brussels, Belgium, and in Flemish Brabant next to the southern border of the city.

[consularrider]

Monument to Daniel Webster from Gordon W Burnham. Located in Central Park at the intersection of West Dr and Olmstead & Vaux Way. The inscription on the front reads, “Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.” would have been very appropriate yesterday, but it may be a while before I am back north again.

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[camiller]

This marker memorializes the Rosenwald School that had been erected at this corner (George Mason Blvd and School Street) now a little park, in Fairfax City. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., formed the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic foundation that funded construction of over 5,000 schools for African-Americans across the rural south between 1917 and 1932. The Fairfax Rosenwald School or “Fairfax Colored School” was constructed in 1925–26 on this site. It replaced an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of the Fairfax Cemetery. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was one of four such schools built in Fairfax County. It was demolished in 1951 and replaced by Eleven Oaks School.

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[bikedavid]

1/7 – African American Civil War Memorial

This memorial honors the African-American soldiers and sailors that served in the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War. The sculpture depicts the spirit of freedom and the wall behind has the names inscribed of the 200,000 soldiers that served.

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[CBGanimal]

1/8/2022 Monuments: Cervantes writing about Don Quixote dela Mancha. In San Blas neighborhood of Madrid

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[Steve O]

The Hollywood Walk of Fame has memorials to thousands of entertainers, including some named Steve (useful for a different PP game)

It’s a total of about 1.3 miles of sidewalks in the vicinity of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles and is the most visited tourist attraction in the city

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[consularrider]

“Para Roberto” Monument to Roberto Clemente at the start/end of the Willis Ave Cycle Track (crosses the Willis Ave Bridge and becomes the northbound 1st Ave bike lane. Located in the triangular Roberto Clemente Plaza between 148th and 149th street in the Bronx.

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[AlanA]

One of the many signs/monuments/memorials at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum. I’ll probably head back here again on another sleaze ride day.

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[AlanA]

@Steve O 212844 wrote:

The Hollywood Walk of Fame has memorials to thousands of entertainers, including some named Steve (useful for a different PP game)

It’s a total of about 1.3 miles of sidewalks in the vicinity of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles and is the most visited tourist attraction in the city

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I’ve done that walk many times. Hollywood is one of my favorite non-biking cities.

[Sophie CW]

Statue of Walter Johnson, pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1907 to 1927, is located in Dogwood Park in Rockville.
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[CaseyKane50]

The Path of Thorns and Roses by Maria Chiodo

Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery
1001 S. Washington Street
Alexandria, Virginia

The memorial represents the Contrabands (freed slaves) and Freedmen who are buried at this cemetery. In 1955, a gas station was built upon the cemetery and was finally torn down in 2007.

If you have been to this site, I encourage you to do so. The Mount Vernon is just across Washington Street from the cemetery.

[sszibler]

“for this pointless prize a monument/memorial must be either a statue, commemorative plaque or sign of cultural or historic significance and must identify the name of the person or persons being memorialized”

Can that just be us identifying the name or names in the reply or does it have to be an actual sign with the words on it? Also, bike in the picture rule. Has that gone away? I’m not seeing many bikes.

[bikedavid]

Not sure if a marker counts but Boundary Stone SW9 is named Benjamin Banneker: SW9 in honor of a free African American astronomer who assisted in the survey that established the original boundaries of DC. Some also consider the boundary stones the first federal monument although they don’t commemorate any person but I suppose the survey project or original boundaries.

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