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Hiawatha Doughboy

05 Sunday Mar 2023

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This statue was erected in Hiawatha, Utah by the Henry Holdsworth Post # 15 of the American Legion May 1922, to honor five men from Hiawatha who died in World War I. In June 1948 eight names were added for those killed in World War II. In 1989 through the efforts and sole expense of American Legion Price Post #3, this statue was graciously donated to Price City by the mayor and town council of Hiawatha, Utah.

This historic marker is located in the plaza between the Coal Miners’ Memorial, the library, and the Prehistoric Museum at approximately 139 East Main Street in Price, Utah.

Other Doughboy Statues:

  • Spirit of the American Doughboy

CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
to
Lt. (J.G.) Wm. E. Hall, U.S.N.
At risk of his life, May 7, 1942, dive bombed and helped sink enemy carrier Shoho in Coral Sea. May 8, 1942 on anti-torpedo patrol, destroyed three enemy planes. Though badly wounded, he landed his damaged “Dauntless” on USS Lexington. His indomitable and aggressive spirit and his will to come through at all costs against tremendous odds, with utter disregard for his personal safety, is attested by his conduct on this occasion.
Entered service from Hiawatha, Utah.

WORLD WAR II

  • EUGENE ALEXANDER
  • ANTHONY ANGOTTI
  • JESUS AVALOS
    JACK B AVERRETT
  • DEWANE J. BROMLEY
  • ORLAND S. BRUNO
  • WILLIAM J. BURT
  • ORVIL M. CAVE
  • THOMAS B. CORY
  • GILBERT CRAVENS
  • LEROY G. DAVIS
  • THOMAS P. DENNY
  • NED B. DONOHUE
  • ROBERT E. ENGLE
  • JOHN J. GALLEGOS
  • PETE GIRAUD
  • FRANE K. GUNDERSON
  • LLOYD GRIFFITH
  • RAY GRIFFITH
  • THURLAN HAMPTON
  • OKEY HIIBNER
  • RUFUS P. HIXON
  • GEORGE JACKSON
  • ALTON JERNIGAN
  • FRANK A. JOHNSON
  • JAMES F. JUERGENS
  • MANOS KLAPAKIS, JR
  • RUDY P. KRISSMAN
  • ALEXANDER LITTLEJOHN
  • JOHN W. LOPAN
  • JOHN MANCINA
  • JACK P. MENARY
  • THOMAS NICOLAIDES
  • ERVIN M. PILLING
  • W. DORIUS PILLING
  • JOSEPH P. POWELL
  • WILLIAM J. POWELL
  • EARL PURDY
  • WILLIAM REHOR
  • DORRAL E. RICH
  • WILHO SEERONEN
  • FRANK B. SILLITOE
  • FRANK SMODEY
  • WALTER A. STAFICH
  • PETE STIFOS
  • DAVID TOPOLOVEC
  • FRANK TRUEBA
  • EARL TUCKER
  • VERN VAIL
  • KENNETH D. WEIGHT
  • ORSON J. WILLIAMS

WORLD WAR I

  • SHELDON A. AXELSON
  • HENRY HOLDSWORTH

KOREAN WAR

  • WILLIAM R. BURN
  • DON B. FAUSETT
  • SAM MORRELLI

VIET-NAM WAR

  • ROBERT R. ANDERSON
  • RICHARD P DONATHAN
  • JOHNNY S. MARTINEZ
  • DONALD MALICEK

PRICE KIWANIS CLUB 1991

HONOR ROLL

IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

WORLD WAR I

HENRY HOLDSWORTH
SHELDON ADOLPH AXELSON
WILLIAM HARMON WALKINGTON
WILLIAM HENRY MATHER
ABE CRAWFORD

WORLD WAR II

JOSEPH KOLOVICH
LEROY C. DAVIS
ANTHONY L. PAPPAS
WILLIAM JOHN BURT
PETE M. STIFAS
WILHO SEERONEN
FRANK SMODEY
JOHN WILLIAM LOPAN

ERECTED MAY 50, 1948

CARBON MEMORIAL ROLL

WORLD WAR I

  • VINCENZO ALBO
  • EDWARD G ANDERSON
  • BURL HABAKER
  • ABRAHAM J CRAWFORD
  • ADOLPHUS B CURTIS
  • BEN A HARDING
  • LAWRENCE E LARSEN
  • WILLIAM LIETZ
  • WILLIAM H MATHER
  • WILLIAM J MCCOMB
  • CHARLES J MITCHELL
  • JOE R NARANJO
  • GEORGE PALLIOUTHAKİS
  • JOSEPH POWELL
  • FRANK REDO
  • JOHN W ROBERTS
  • ARTHUR P. THOMAS
  • GUY IRVING THOMAS
  • GEORGE WEST STEVENSON
  • WILLIAM H WALKINGTON
  • NELDEN P WORLEY
  • HENRY R ZOBELL

    WORLD WAR II
  • SALVADORE AMADOR
  • ANTONE ANGOTTI
  • STEPHEN A BARKER
  • LUTHER BIKAKIS
  • ERNEST BRUNO
  • JAMES L BRUNO JR
  • KENNETH CHRISTIANSEN
  • DON COLTON
  • JOHN COPOZO
  • NORMAN COWAN
  • LEONARD DIXON
  • WILLIAM KENT FOX
  • RICHARD F. FRANDSEN
  • GLEN FREEMAN
  • JOHN GARDNER
  • KEITH GERBER
  • HAROLD EDMOND GILL
  • ROBERT HAZELBUSH
  • JOHN HELSTEN
  • RUDY KOCHEVAR
  • JOSEPH KOLOVICH
  • KENNETH A LARSEN
  • HAROLD ES LEONARD
  • HARRY MALONAS
  • DONALD MCPHEE
  • ROBERT NAYLOR
  • THOR NIELSON
  • GEORGE NOCULICH
  • ANTHONY L PAPPAS
  • NORD IRA PEARSON
  • BRUCE PIKE
  • LAMAR V POLVE
  • CHARLES PROTOPAPPAS
  • LAURENCE V RASMUSSEN
  • ALBERT R RICHARDS
  • GEORGE A ROWLEY JR.
  • DOYLE SIMMONS
  • HANS F TORGERSON
  • WALLACE N. TREAT JR
  • KENNETH W. WATKINS


KOREAN WAR

  • GEORGE CHRIS BOLOTAS
  • JAMES S CABLEHOUSE
  • FRANK R GALLEGOS
  • JOSEPH MARRELLI
  • RAWLAND OTTERSTROM
  • JAMES L POWELL
  • ALVINN RUTHERFORD


VIET-NAM WAR

  • DEE BERGERA
  • CLIVE GARTH JEFFS
  • JERRY DEE LAWS
  • DONALD MICHAEL SOWER
  • LOUIS PAUL SPENSKO
  • TONY MARIA VASQUEZ


PRICE KIWANIS CLUB 1991

Manneken Pis

17 Friday Feb 2023

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Manneken Pis is the most widely visited and photographed statue in Belgium. While smiling coyly, he remains the emblem of the rebellious spirit of Brussels. The original Manneken Pis has been taking matters into his own hand since 1619 and has continuously made visitors smile, laugh and benefit from the legend of the good fortune for all who visit.

My brother and I have brought an oversized replica to the D Las Vegas as a “tip of the cap” to our parents and our Belgian descent and to warm the hearts of visitors and locals alike. Manneken Pis has been described as hard working yet fun loving, affable and slightly irreverent, all qualities embraced by the D Las Vegas.

Manneken Pis Las Vegas will continue to aim to please for many years to come.

Derek and Greg Stevens

This is located outside The D Casino & Hotel at the northeast corner of Carson Avenue and 3rd Street in Las Vegas, Nevada.


This water feature is operating in compliance with the City of Las Vegas Title 14.11 requirements and a water use reduction plan for this facility is on file with the District and the City.

Murray City Library

05 Sunday Feb 2023

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166 East 5300 South in Murray, Utah.

This plaque talks about the old Carnegie Library:

Murray City Vine Street Public Library

As early as 1900, a collection of books was made by a women’s club. This club maintained a library reading room in a home until 1912

In 1912, with the donation of the women’s club’s 515 books valued at $1,000.00, and through a petition, one mill was levied for a public library. A room in the original city hall was used for this purpose.

In 1915, the Carnegie Foundation, together with the city furnished $21,129.00 for the building of the original library. The board of education had donated the ground and the building was built in 1915.

In 1970 through action of present and former library board members, city officials and a united community effort, funds were raised for the present addition.

“Take Me There” – a Legacy Art Project of stained glass created by Donna Pence and Paul Heath.

This statue by Jim Davidson, presented by The Friends of the Murray Library to commemorate the library’s centennial, 1912-2012.

Ellen (Nellie) Purcell Unthank

06 Friday Jan 2023

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Ellen (Nellie) Purcell Unthank

Ellen (Nellie) Purcell was born November 6, 1846 in Tintwhistle, England. At 9 she, with her parents and sister Margaret (Maggie), 14, began the trek from Iowa to Salt Lake Valley in 1856 with the Edward Martin Handcart Company.

Early snows overtook the company, both Nellie’s parents died on the trail. Nellie’s feet were frozen.

On arrival in Salt Lake Valley, she was strapped to a board. No anesthetics were available. Both her legs were amputated just below the knee with a butcher’s knife and carpenter’s saw.

For the rest of her life she moved about on the painful stubs of her legs.

At 24 in Cedar City she became the plural wife of William Unthank. His income was small.

Beginning as a wife in a one-room log house with a dirt floor, she kept her home spotless. Nellie took in washing, she knitted stockings to sell. She gave birth to 6 children. Her Bishop and Relief Society occasionally brought food to her family. To even the score, once a year she and her children cleaned the meeting house throughout.

Nellie died at 68 in Cedar City — A noble representative of the rank and file of Mormon Pioneers.

This marker #38 of the historic markers by the Sons of Utah Pioneers, located on SUU Campus at 400 West 200 South in Cedar City, Utah.

  • S.U.P. Historic Markers

Big John

14 Friday Oct 2022

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The History of Big John

Big John was an original idea, born from the creativity and enthusiasm of Helper citizens, the Mayor and the City Council. In February of 1964, many of the movers and shakers of Helper decided the city needed a civic attraction. On February 27, 1964, the first meeting for the formation of a museum was held, where Councilman Al Veltri was appointed chairman. Things snowballed from there.

By March 12, 1964 the Western Mining Museum was on its way. It was discovered that a firm, – International Fiberglass in Venice, CA. – made large fiberglass figures for promotional purposes. The company was a fiberglass boat builder that had begun making tall advertising figures in 1963. With some discussion, the order went out and created the largest resident of Helper. Paul Bunyan became a miner.

Of course the miner still needed a name, but that didn’t take long. In 1961, the song of fame (the first was “16 Tons”) about mining won the best Country Song and Album of the Year. It was of of course “Big Bad John”. What other name was fitting for the 18 foot miner in Helper except “Big John.”

Big John is a proud symbol of pride for the mining industry. John also signifies the memory of all those who have given their lives in the local mines since the late 1890’s. John is the foundation of civic pride and strong work ethic for a unified community.

Stand was built from rails, spikes, and plates gathered from Castle Gate Mine Tram Way.

Located outside the Helper Civic Auditorium at 19 South Main Street in Helper, Utah.

The Founding of Southern Utah University

13 Thursday Oct 2022

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The Founding of Southern Utah University

In the annals of American higher education, there is no more dramatic founding of a school than that accorded Southern Utah University, nor a more striking example of the extent of the commitment of Utah’s early pioneers to the cause of education.

The first State Legislature following Utah’s statehood authorized a branch of the state’s teacher training school to be located in Southern Utah, but the community so selected would have to first deed to the state 15 acres of land and construct on the site a college building to be designed by the state architect.

When named as the site of the new school, Cedar City was a community of less than 1500 people, primarily of English, Welch and the Scottish descent. The community gave the state the title to Academy Hill, plans arrived for the new school building, Cedar City concluded that the construction of such a large building was beyond the town’s capacity. Instead, the University was housed in an existing building downtown and in September 1897 classroom activities began.

School had been in session for only two months, however, when Cedar City was thrown into its greatest crisis. The teacher’s payrolls submitted to the state for payment were refused by the Utah Attorney General who ruled that size of the downtown building did not comply with the law which required that the school have its own building on land deeded to the state for that purpose. Furthermore, it was ruled that if a building was not erected by the following September, the school would be lost.

The immediate task, getting the teachers paid, was resolved by a bank loan secured by three Cedar City families who mortgaged their homes to guarantee payment.

The other task, getting the building erected on Academy Hill, proved extremely difficult. The cost of the building was equivalent to the town’s total business volume for an entire year and would require beating the mountain snows to construct the new building. A building committee was appointed to which Cedar City pledged all its public and private resources, the committee being forced to dip into both generously.

On January 5, 1898, a group of men, the first of a long line of townsmen to face the bitter winter weather of the mountains left Cedar City for a saw mill 35 miles away (near present day Brian Head). Their task was to cut logs necessary to supply the wood for the new building. That expedition, and the others that followed, worked in temperatures that dropped as low as 40 degrees below zero. To protect their legs from the biting winds they tied gunny sacks about their waists and legs.

The initial expedition, engulfed by a record snow storm, attempted to return to Cedar City and was forced to wade through snow drifts that sometimes were 15 feet high and 100 yards long. An old Sorrel horse, placed out at the vanguard of the party, is credited with having saved the expedition by walking into the drifts, pushing and straining against the snow, throwing himself into the drifts again and again until they gave way. Then he would pause for a rest, sitting down on his haunches the way a dog does, then get up and start again.

The mountain workers were divided into groups. Some cut logs, some were sawers, some planed logs into lumber, and others hauled the lumber from the mill. It took two and a half days to get a load of logs down from the mountain tops to Cedar City. When heavy snows kept provisions from reaching the working men, they subsisted on a diet of dried peaches. From January through July they kept up their labors.

The bricks for the building, over 250,000 of them, were made by a corps of people who remained in Cedar City, often putting in 12 to 14 hours a day on the project.

To purchase building materials that could not be made locally, cash was needed. Some people donated their stock in the Cedar City Co-op store while others offered their stock in the cooperative cattle company. One family gave the siding off their barn, another gave the lumber they had purchased to build a kitchen on their home. Still others gave prize lumber that had been saved for coffins.

When September 1890 arrived, the building was completed.

It contained a large chapel, a library, and reading room, a natural history museum, biological and physical laboratories, classrooms, and offices. It stands today at the end of the founders’ walkway, directly east of this monument. Its interior has been remodeled several times but the exterior walls are the original ones constructed in 1898.

That first building was literally torn from icy crags and molded by the hands of more than 100 men and women. The community of Cedar City had met its greatest test, and the University was given a heritage unmatched by any other educational institution in the United States.

The preserving of the University was achieved by people who would never attend it, indeed some of them never had the opportunity of attending any school. They were hardy, rough-spoken, courageous men and women, people of the type without whom the frontiers of the west could never have been conquered.

This monument is Sons of Utah Pioneers historic marker #214 located at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah

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Hyrum Smith

10 Sunday Jul 2022

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Hyrum Smith
Feb. 9, 1800 – June 27, 1844
In whose honor Hyrum City was named in 1860

By Matt Glenn, DJ Bawden, located in the City Square in Hyrum, Utah (about 59 West Main Street)

Spirit of the American Doughboy

04 Friday Feb 2022

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Mount Pleasant, Utah

The Spirit of the American Doughboy, often just called The Doughboy, is a bronze sculpture often found at World War I memorials.

I see them often in my exploring and documenting and decided to create this page to document all of them.

The artist is E. M. Viquesney.

Those I have documented are located at the following places:

  • Beaver War Memorial
  • Hiawatha Doughboy
  • Mt. Pleasant National Guard Armory
  • Uintah County Veteran Memorial
Beaver, Utah
Vernal, Utah

Hope Rising – To Lift a Nation Memorial

14 Friday Jan 2022

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The Hope Rising – To Lift a Nation Story

Hope Rising – To Lift a Nation, is a heroic-size (9ft) bronze monument that depicts the three firemen who raised the American flag at Ground Zero soon after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

The photograph of that poignant moment was captured by Thomas E. Franklin, a photographer for The Record, a newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey. World-renowned sculptor, Stan Watts, was granted permission to create a sculpture in the likeness of this photograph.

The humble wish of the three firemen depicted here is to honor the brave fire fighters who perished running up the stairs, offering hope to everyone running down.

This monument will stand as a permanent reminder of a day we should never forget. It will serve as a fitting memorial for those we list in the attacks of 9.11, and have since list in the war on terror.

Most importantly, it will stand as a symbol of the hope we felt on the day we lost so many… and stood together.

The Healing Field Story

Dear Visitor,

Amidst the horrific aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, three New York City firefighters quietly raised an American Flag. A flagpole bearing an American Flag, the simplest of devices, supported by the rubble of what used to be the World Trade Center, became a powerful symbol of hope to our country that day. That hope offered a measure of meaning to the rest of us as we processed with heavy hearts these cowardly attacks on our own soil.

In that spirit, on September 10th, 2002, as the first anniversary approached, the first Healing First Flag Display was erected 200 feet directly south of this location. The massive field of United States flags posted on 8 ft. tall poles, set in a reverent grid of perfect rows and columns, became a solemn, unifying and patriotic tribute clearly demonstrating the enormity of the loss of the 2,981 souls murdered on that fateful day. Many of the tens of thousands of visitors expressed a sense of healing as they walked through the field of flags. The title “Healing Field Flag Display” was adopted.

By September of 2003, 534 men and women of our armed forces had perished in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Flags honoring our fallen military were posted a 4 more flag memorials arose on the second anniversary throughout the country. The designation “Field of Honor” was adopted for the military tribute flag displays. By the third anniversary, 35 additional fields of flags arose across America. By the tenth anniversary, 523 Healing Field and Field of Honor flag displays had touched the lives of millions nationwide.

To the thousands of dedicated volunteers, Colonial Flag employees, generous friends, courageous Front Line Responders and members of our Armed Forces which came together each year to create a place to remember, honor and heal, I thank you.

Paul B. Swenson – September 11th, 2011

Hope Rising – To Lift a Nation Memorial

This memorial is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors. Their support, as well as their dedication to freedom, loyalty to our flag, and commitment to our community will never be forgotten.

Special Thanks

Sandy City – Mayor Tom Dolan & The Sandy City Council
Salt Lake County – Mayor Peter Corroon & The County Council

Donors

IPM, Inc. – Ralph Dlugas
Larry H. Miller Family – LHM Charities
Les Olson Company
Colonial Flag Company
Arlen Crouch
Energy Solutions
KUTV2 News
Merit Medical
Sandy Area Chambers
Todd Maurer
Workers Compensation Fund
105.7 AM – 570 AM

Design & Construction

Stan Watts (Sculptor)
Van Schelt Design
Monument Arts
CMI Specialty Insulation
Ensign Engineering
Layton Construction
Rob Saxey Construction

Distant Thunder

07 Tuesday Dec 2021

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“Distant Thunder” was created by artist Michael Coleman and first exhibited on May 10th, 2019. The 3,500 pound bronze sculpture took over a year to create. It was donated to Golden Spike National Historical Park in 2019 in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the driving of the last spike in the Transcontinental Railroad.

Michael Coleman was born and raised in Provo, Utah and spent lots of time outdoors. Coleman is a prominent Western artist who has exhibited at the National Academy of Western Art and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Wyoming.

When discussing his sculpture “Distant Thunder,” Coleman said “My love of buffalo runs deep. The first painting I ever sold was of a buffalo. There was a small herd of bison down near Utah Lake about 10 or so miles from my house… they were magic!”

Where the Buffalo Roamed

Bison herds in the western United States were so massive, they shook the ground and sounded like thunder in the distance. The American bison roamed most of North American and in the early 19th century, population estimates were between 30 million to 60 million. Their story is inextricably tied to the history of America’s first transcontinental railroad.

Hundreds of thousands of bison were slaughtered by hunters, travelers and U.S. Troops. Trains shipped bison carcasses back east for machine belts, tongues as a delicacy, and bones as fertilizer. When the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, it accelerated the decimation of the species and by 1900, naturalists estimated less than 1,000 bison remained.

By the late 1880s, the endless herds of bison were wiped out and just a few hundred individuals remained. Near extinction of the majestic animal deprived the Pains Indians of their livelihood and resulted in tremendous suffering. The last remaining bison were protected in Yellowstone National Park and other sanctuaries in North America. Today, bison populations are slowly recovering. The sculpture “Distant Thunder” is a tribute to the vast herds that once roamed the American West.

This sculpture is located at the Golden Spike National Historical Park at Promontory, Utah.

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