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Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole

 
 
Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Douglass Halvorsen, November 29, 2014
1. Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker
Inscription.
In Recognition Of The
Josephine County Casualties
Of War

 
Erected 1994 by Grants Pass Emblem Club No. 444; Grants Pass Elks Lodge No. 1584.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 42° 25.704′ N, 123° 19.592′ W. Memorial is in Grants Pass, Oregon, in Josephine County. It can be reached from East Park Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 304 E Park St, Grants Pass OR 97527, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southern Oregon. It is also on the American Pacific Coast, in the Pacific Northwest, and in the Lewis & Clark Corridor. Globally, it is in North America, on the Ring of Fire, in the Pacific Rim, in the Western Hemisphere, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Riverside Park War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Josephine County Peace Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Union Veterans of the Civil War (about 800 feet away, measured in a direct line); Memorial to Our Fathers (about 800 feet away); The Perkinsville Ferry (approx. 0.3 miles away); Mormon Sugar Beet Factory Site (approx. half a mile away); The First Brick Building in Grants Pass (approx. 0.7 miles away); The Oregon Cavemen (approx. 2.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Grants Pass.
 
More about this memorial. War memorial is located in Riverside Park and contains two plaques at the base of the flagpole.
 
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Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Douglass Halvorsen, November 29, 2014
2. Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker
Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Douglass Halvorsen, November 29, 2014
3. Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker
Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Douglass Halvorsen, November 29, 2014
4. Riverside Park Memorial Flagpole Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 25, 2025. It was originally submitted on January 25, 2018, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon. This page has been viewed 291 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on January 25, 2018, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
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