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Veterans Memorial

 
 
Veterans Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 14, 2020
1. Veterans Memorial Marker
Inscription.

Erected to perpetuate
the memory of the men and
women of this community
who answered their country's
call to colors and dedicated
to those who made the
supreme sacrifice

 
Erected 1951 by American Legion Post 8 and Auxiliary No. 226, and Citizens of Elsberry Community.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & PatriotismWar, KoreanWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 39° 9.905′ N, 90° 47.031′ W. Memorial is in Elsberry, Missouri, in Lincoln County. It is at the intersection of Broadway (State Highway B) and 4th Street, on the left when traveling west on Broadway. Monument is in Elsberry City Park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Elsberry MO 63343, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater St. Louis. It is also in the American Midwest, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, in the Corn Belt, and in the Great River Road Region. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds
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itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 16 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Old Mill and Grain Elevator Site (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 5.9 miles away in Illinois); "Great Flood" Clean-up Volunteers (approx. 11.9 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 11.9 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 12.9 miles away in Illinois); In Memory of (approx. 12.9 miles away in Illinois); Kampsville Veterans Memorial (approx. 13 miles away in Illinois); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 15.4 miles away).
 
Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 14, 2020
2. Veterans Memorial
Elsberry Centennial Time Capsule Marker (1979) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 14, 2020
3. Elsberry Centennial Time Capsule Marker (1979)
In ground in front of Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 16, 2020. It was originally submitted on September 16, 2020, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 301 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on September 16, 2020, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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