In 2004, I accepted an offer by the City of Marshall to put together some concepts for a memorial incorporating a 9/11 World Trade
Center (WTC) steel beam and 3,000 victim names. A meeting was set up for an on-site visit to review the original . . . — — Map (db m311654) HM WM
Jim Dahl was a gifted and well-known Marshall area artist and the founder of the Mrs. Whitney statue project. He moved from Watertown, South Dakota to Marshall with his family in 1973. He graduated from Marshall High School and worked at various . . . — — Map (db m311596) HM
A longstanding fixture on Main Street was the Olson & Lowe clothing store. The store first
opened its doors in October of 1900 and was in business for over 100 years in the same location
on Main Street. The store expanded with more than a dozen . . . — — Map (db m311537) HM
One of the first businesses in Marshall was a general merchandise store started by Robert M. Addison in 1872 and located at Second (East College Drive) and Main Street (directly across the street from this marker). Over time, several of his . . . — — Map (db m311603) HM
The central business district in Marshall has always been clearly defined geographically, bordered
on two sides by the Great Northern Railroad and the former Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
tracks. Historically, the retail center of Marshall . . . — — Map (db m311602) HM
This woman made history by naming the town her husband, Charles Henry Whitney, founded. She was truly the mother of the new town.
Mrs. Whitney made a name for herself during a period in history when women held no real importance in a society . . . — — Map (db m311582) HM
Hau Mitakuyapi Oyasin! I am John Knife Sterner, born May 25, 1966, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. I am Sicangu Lakota,
and when I was three years old my onchi said to me, "Keep drawing. You are Lakota and the Lakota . . . — — Map (db m311592) HM
"Mankind must put an end to war,
or war will put an end to Mankind"
John F. Kennedy
To survive in a time of war you must find a strength
greater than all of the events that surround you.
Author unknown
Land of the free . . . — — Map (db m311722) WM
All Gave Some - Some Gave All
Section 1:
SP4 Vincent E Bot USA Korean War ·
SP4 Donald V Bottelberghe USA Korea ·
PV2 John R Bottelberghe ANG 1982-1984 ·
PFC Richard R Bottelberghe USA Korea ·
PFC Robert L Bottelberghe USA . . . — — Map (db m257352) WM
Nearly nine centuries after Leif Ericsson established the first settlement of Europeans in North America, several hundred of his Icelandic countrymen left their native land to make their homes in the Minneota area. First of the Icelanders to . . . — — Map (db m207252) HM
The ruins of the Tracy Elementary School and the splintered Tracy Tornado Tree (right) show the tornado's destructive power.
The Tracy Tornado Tree
has endured as a symbol of the indomitable spirit of Tracy's people in . . . — — Map (db m235418) HM
Photo by Eric Lantz
On June 13, 1968, the city of Tracy stood poised on the brink of oblivion.
On that hot and humid Thursday evening, an F5 tornado plowed a path of utter destruction thru the heart of Tracy. . . . — — Map (db m235416) HM
This memorial is dedicated to those men & women veterans who served our country in times of peace & war and especially to those who gave their lives. — — Map (db m257583) WM
