Crisfield in Somerset County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Somerset County's Memorial Bridge

A.D. 1921

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Somerset County's Memorial Bridge Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), October 12, 2024

1. Somerset County's Memorial Bridge Marker

Inscription. Somerset County's
Memorial Bridge
to its soldiers in the World War

These made the supreme sacrifice Oliver Thomas Beauchamp • Rufus Bedsworth • Julius R. Blades • William J. Blueford • Robert F. Brattan • Stanley L. Cochrane • George C. Cullison • Joseph Shelby Dashiell • Ronald Daugherty • Cyrus W. Dodson • Orville G. Dryden

Athol E. Gibson • Charles A. Lankford • Ellsworth D. Powell • Fred. D. Pusey • Theodore B. Reid, Jr. • William E. Revelle • James Shields • Charles W. Sterling • George B. Sterling • Allen R. Watson • George A. C. Wharton

Erected 1921.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I.

Location. 37° 59.602′ N, 75° 51.33′ W. Memorial is in Crisfield, Maryland, in Somerset County. It can be reached from Lorie C Quinn Sr Drive 0.3 miles west of Brick Kiln Road, on the right when traveling west. The plaque has been moved from its original location to the American Legion. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 116 Lorie C Quinn Sr Dr, Crisfield MD 21817, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is on the Eastern Shore.

It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic,

on the Delmarva Peninsula,

in the Tidewater,

and in the Chesapeake Bay Region.

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

and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within one mile of this marker, measured as the crow flies: J. Millard Tawes (approx. 0.7 miles away); Crab Pickers Strike

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(approx. 0.7 miles away); The Crisfield Protests of 1961 (approx. ¾ mile away); Hoptown (approx. 0.9 miles away); 'Spirit Of The American Doughboy' (approx. 0.9 miles away); Crisfield (approx. one mile away); Chesapeake Treasures (approx. 1.1 miles away); Beach to Bay Indian Trail (approx. 1.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Crisfield.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Crisfield (was approx. one mile away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

American Legion Stanley Cochrane Post 16 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), October 12, 2024

2. American Legion Stanley Cochrane Post 16

The post has been named for one of the individuals honored on the plaque.

Credits. This page was last revised on October 13, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 13, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 163 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 13, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.