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Irish Famine Memorial, Lincoln Park, Jersey City, NJ

Irish Famine Memorial, Lincoln Park, Jersey City, NJ

by Matthew Friedman | Mar 22, 2018 | The Memorials

The 18-foot tall Celtic cross in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park marks both a memory of profound trauma and the persistence of the community that remembers it. Erected in 2011 in a public park by the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, the memorial’s design reaches far back...
Wars of America Memorial, Military Park, Newark, NJ

Wars of America Memorial, Military Park, Newark, NJ

by Matthew Friedman | Mar 9, 2018 | The Memorials

A crowd of 4,000 gathered in the chilly, late-spring rain to dedicate a memorial to America’s war dead in Newark’s Military Park. It was 1926, only seven-and-a-half years since the guns fell silent at the end of the Great War. Veterans stood on the dais...

Table of Contents

  • Katyn Massacre Memorial, Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ
  • Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
  • Confederate Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
  • Irish Famine Memorial, Lincoln Park, Jersey City, NJ
  • Wars of America Memorial, Military Park, Newark, NJ
  • National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, NY
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza, Chicago, IL
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC
  • Liberation Monument, Liberty State Park, NJ
  • Civil War Memorial, Lincoln Park, Jersey City, NJ

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