Derry Township near Burrell in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

The Brenizer Community Memorial

Photographed by Bradley Owen, July 12, 2025

1. The Brenizer Community Memorial

Inscription.
This memorial is dedicated in sincere tribute to the living and dead whose valiant efforts and unselfish sacrifices have made America great. God grant that the liberty of humanity, won only by brave souls and vigilantly guarded, shall live on with increased strength and spirit, perpetuated for all ages to come.

More lasting than words... more glorious than praise... is our gratitude for their great unselfishness.

Erected 1944.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.

Location. 40° 24.039′ N, 79° 16.006′ W. Memorial is near Burrell, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County. It is in Derry Township. It is on 28th Street west of Cherry Street, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 808 28th Street, Blairsville PA 15717, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Laurel Highlands

and in Greater Pittsburgh.

It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France,

the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Johnston Site (approx. 1.4 miles away); Blairsville Area Veterans Memorial (approx. 2.1 miles away); Fugitive Slave Rescue (approx. 2.1 miles away); The Kidnapping of Richard Newman (approx. 2.1 miles away); George Wilkinson and the Kidnapping of 1858

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(approx. 2.1 miles away); Pennsylvania Mainline Canal Port of Blairsville (approx. 2.1 miles away); Dr. Edward Emerson & Dred Scott (approx. 2.1 miles away); Bridges Over Conemaugh River at Blairsville (approx. 2.1 miles away).

Photographed by Bradley Owen, July 12, 2025

2. The Brenizer Community Memorial

Credits. This page was last revised on July 21, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 21, 2025, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. This page has been viewed 74 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 21, 2025, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia.