Veterans Memorial Hall and Museum
Monument type:
Memorial hall
Artist:
Bradley and Carpenter
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Address:
Winnebago county
Illinois
United States
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This Memorial Hall, the first of its kind in the United States, dedicated to our Veterans of all wars, was completed in the year 1903 with dedication ceremonies on June Third of that year by our twenty-sixth President Theodore Roosevelt with these words.
"No more fitting memorial could be erected to the men who fought, than a hall such as this..... a hall beautiful because of the uses to which it is consecrated."
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Indigenous Land
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Data Sources:
Veterans Memorial Hall | Rockford History Walks. rockfordhistorywalks.org/?ait-item=veterans-memorial-hall. Accessed 1 Apr. 2024.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131212215139/http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/200682.pdf. Accessed 1 Apr. 2024
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