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Woonsocket Spanish-American War Monument

 
 
Woonsocket Spanish-American War Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 12, 2022
1. Woonsocket Spanish-American War Monument
Inscription.
The City of Woonsocket
to Her Sons
Who on Land and Sea
Defended
The Nation’s Honor
in
the War with Spain
and the Philippine
Insurrection
1898     1902

 
Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in this topic list: War, Spanish-American.
 
Location. 42° 0.131′ N, 71° 30.638′ W. Monument is in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in Providence County. It is at the intersection of Front Street and Hamlet Avenue (Rhode Island Route 122), on the left when traveling north on Front Street. Located in Court Square. Touch for map. Monument is in this post office area: Woonsocket RI 02895, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial monument is in the Blackstone Valley and in Greater Providence. It is also in the American Northeast, in New England, and 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 one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are
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within walking distance of this marker: Veterans Memorial (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Veterans Memorial Bridge (about 700 feet away); Veterans Memorial Park (about 800 feet away); First Lieutenant Harold F. Flynn Memorial Square (approx. 0.2 miles away); Abraham Lincoln (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Story of Hachikō (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named Abraham Lincoln (approx. 0.2 miles away); Woonsocket YMCA (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Woonsocket.
 
Another marker is no longer nearby. Hachikō (was approx. 0.2 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
 
Woonsocket Spanish-American War Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 12, 2022
2. Woonsocket Spanish-American War Monument
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on April 29, 2022. It was originally submitted on April 29, 2022, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut. This page has been viewed 253 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on April 29, 2022, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
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