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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: August 12, 2008
Caption: Yorktown Victory Monument
Additional Description: The Yorktown Monument to "The Alliance and Victory" was the first monument authorized by the Federal Government. It was authorized on October 29, 1781, just ten days after the victory at Yorktown. However, construction on the monument did not begin until 1881. It was completed in 1884.
Submitted: August 31, 2008, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p33807
File Size: 0.857 Megabytes

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