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The Freedom Shrine is located along the Jordan River Trail in Taylorsville, Utah and has a small plaza, benches, a flag and a wall with many plaques.
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The Freedom Shrine is located along the Jordan River Trail in Taylorsville, Utah and has a small plaza, benches, a flag and a wall with many plaques.
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20 Friday Aug 2021
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Lieutenant Henry Wells Jackson (March 10, 1827- May 27, 1864), was the only Utah battle fatality of the Civil War and the first known Latter-Day Saint to be killed in a U.S. national conflict. Jackson marched in the Mormon Battalion, Company D, musician; panned for gold at Mormon Island (now Folsom Lake), California; and used gold to pay for his wedding. He and Eliza Ann Dibble were married in Salt Lake on February 3, 1850, by Brigham Young. Henry and Eliza started a family and helped establish settlements in Tooele Valley and San Bernardino, California. In 1858, Henry carried mail for George Chorpenning on the Overland Mail Route, a precursor to the Pony Express. Due to bad management, Henry was owed $1,300 in back pay for his mail service. He decided to go back East to try and collect the money. Payment was delayed, so Henry took employment as a wagon master and was ultimately captured by the Confederate Army and held as a prisoner for three months. He was later released in exchange for Confederate prisoners. Because of the way he was treated, he decided to fight for the Union. Henry enlisted with the First Regiment, District of Columbia, Volunteer Cavalry and was commissioned as a lieutenant due to his previous service in the Mormon Battalion. On May 8, 1864, Henry took part in the Battle of White Bridge near Jarrett’s Station, Virginia, and was shot. Due to infection, he died on May 27, 1864, leaving behind his wife and three children. Henry Wells Jackson is buried in Hampton National Cemetery and is remembered for his great sacrifice and love for family and country.
This is DUP Marker #576 (see others here) located on the grounds of the State Capitol Building and on the same monument as DUP Marker #270.
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The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
03 Monday Aug 2020
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Among other things there is a war veteran memorial, an old spanish trail marker and a DUP Historic marker.
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A memorial to the veterans of war from Elberta, Utah. Located outside the Currant Creek Convenience Store.
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This rose garden is dedicated to all Nephi Veterans of World War II and in honor of these who made the supreme sacrifice:
Vietnam:
This rose garden is located at 110 E 100 N in Nephi, Utah. Next door to the old National Guard Armory.
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Citizens of Hurricane Utah
Serving in the Armed Forces of Our Country
To Honor Those “Valiant” Men and Women
Who Gave Themselves in Service and
Sacrifice for God and Country
In Memoriam
This historic marker is located in Hurricane Valley Pioneer Heritage Park in Hurricane, Utah.
06 Monday May 2019
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City Creek Canyon Historic District, Memorials, NRHP, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, utah, War Memorials, World War I
The World War Memorial in Memory Grove.
The circular classic styled memorial is composed of eight peripteral doric columns rendered in granite. The colonade supports a circular entablature composed of an architrave, wide frieze and cornice, above which is found a carved crown molding rendered in a floral motif. The entablature supports no dome allowing light to penetrate to the central interior of the monument via the round opening which the entablature forms. The colonade rests on a round three-stepped base of granite.
The central focal point of the monument is a centrally located octagonal shaft which supports an urn. Around the flat sides of the shaft are bronze plaques bearing the names of war dead. Radiating out from the base of the shaft Is a star form composed of random shapes of marble set into the floor.
1914-1918
In Grateful Remembrance of the Heroic Sons of Utah Who Gave Their Lives in the World War
This Monument Erected A.D. 1932
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inThis is the old page for the Freedom Shrine, see the updated version here.