Greenbrier East in Chesapeake, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Picking Up the Pieces

Remembering September 11, 2001

Photographed by Brandon D Cross, January 27, 2022

1. Picking Up the Pieces Marker

Inscription.
Transporting the Artifacts
Following the September 11 attacks, crews of public safety officials and volunteers spent nine months clearing 1.8 million tons of debris at Ground Zero. Artifacts from the World Trade Center complex were collected and stored in Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey created the 9/11 Steel Memorial Program to distribute the artifacts to organizations across the United States. The Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission applied to the program to receive a piece of the World Trade Center. The request was approved and on August 22, 2011, Givens Trucking transported a 5.5-ton, 22.5-foot long steel beam from New York City to Chesapeake escorted by deputies from the Chesapeake Sheriff’s Department.

A collection of artifacts from the Pentagon crash site were also distributed. Representatives from the Chesapeake Sheriff’s Department traveled to Arlington, Virginia, to pick up a limestone fragment weighing close to 350 pounds. The limestone was swaddled in blankets, boxed in birch, and draped in an American flag before it was transported.

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The truck carrying the limestone joined up with a caravan traveling with the sacred steel from New York City. The artifacts arrived safely to Chesapeake and were later joined by a fieldstone from the crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Erected by City of Chesapeake.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: 9/11 Attacks • Parks & Recreational Areas. In addition, it is included in the World Trade Center Beams series list. A significant historical date for this entry is August 22, 2011.

Location. 36° 45.123′ N, 76° 13.597′ W. Memorial is in Chesapeake, Virginia. It is in Greenbrier East. It can be reached from the intersection of City Park Drive and Greenbrier Road, on the left when traveling west. Locate in Chesapeake City Park. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 900 City Park Drive, Chesapeake VA 23320, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Virginia’s Hampton Roads,

specifically in Coastal Virginia,

and in the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in the Tidewater,

and

Photographed by Brandon D Cross, January 27, 2022

2. Picking Up the Pieces Marker

on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Day that Shook America (a few steps from this marker); Never Forget (a few steps from this marker); Oak Grove Methodist Church (approx. 1½ miles away); At Dawn On December 9, 1775 (approx. 2.2 miles away); Causeways (approx. 2.2 miles away); Liberty to Slaves (approx. 2.2 miles away); First Fire (approx. 2.2 miles away); Causeway Construction (approx. 2.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Chesapeake.

Also see . . . 9/11 Memorial at Chesapeake City Park. City website entry (Submitted on February 11, 2022, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida.)

Steel Beam from World Trade Center artifact image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brandon D Cross, January 27, 2022

3. Steel Beam from World Trade Center artifact

Credits. This page was last revised on February 23, 2023. It was originally submitted on February 11, 2022, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 253 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on February 11, 2022, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.