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Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department No. 1 Veterans Memorial

 
 
Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department No. 1 Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Bradley Owen, July 12, 2025
1. Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department No. 1 Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
The members of the Ligonier Twp. V.F.D. #1 extends their deep gratitude for your service and our freedom to all the veterans who served in past wars and to those who paid the supreme sacrifice

☆ Alvin P. Carey • ☆ John Zimmerman • ☆ Lee Plummer • ☆ Merle Anderson • ☆ Ralph Wolford • ☆ Richard Graham • ☆ Richard West • ☆ Robert Luther • ☆ Thomas Wolford

 
Erected by Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department #1.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 40° 15.235′ N, 79° 10.434′ W. Memorial is near Ligonier, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County. It is in Ligonier Township. It is on Fire Hall Road south of Otterbein Road, on the right when traveling south. Memorial is located on the north side of Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department #1. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1 Fire Hall Road, Ligonier PA 15658, 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 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Bullet's Defeat (approx. 1.3 miles away); Original Course of Forbes Road (approx. 1.6 miles away); Ligonier Train Crash (approx. 2.1 miles away); Wilpen Service Monument
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(approx. 2.2 miles away); Wilpen Crash (approx. 2.2 miles away); Laughlintown (approx. 3.2 miles away); The Compass Inn (approx. 3.2 miles away); a different marker also named The Compass Inn (approx. 3.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ligonier.
 
Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department No. 1 Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Bradley Owen, July 12, 2025
2. Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department No. 1 Veterans Memorial
War Memorial is on the left.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on July 23, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 23, 2025, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. This page has been viewed 117 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on July 23, 2025, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia.
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