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Originally called the Back Cove Boulevard, the parkway opened in 1917. It covers 30 acres (12 ha). [2] Tree planting began on the Boulevard in 1921 as a memorial to World War I victims. [3] Baxter Boulevard was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic landscape district in October 1989. [4]
Other public memorials to the Maine and the war in the state include one of the ship's cannons at Fort Allen Park in Portland, and a recovered projectile in Lewiston. The USS Maine Mast Memorial is in Arlington National Cemetery, and the principal national memorial to the Maine is the USS Maine National Monument in New York City.
Two more major memorials were added prior to World War I: The Confederate Monument in 1914, [17] and the USS Maine Memorial in 1915. [18] Another nine memorials, most of them commemorating World War I, were added in the 1920s and 1930s. This included the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which was dedicated on November 11, 1921.
Mojave Memorial Cross; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) National World War I Museum and Memorial; Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial; Newton City Hall and War Memorial; Over the Top to Victory; Paragould War Memorial; Peace Cross; Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch; Sierra Madre Memorial Park; Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways
There is a plaque dedicated to Maine at the war memorial in Stephen R. Gregg Park in Bayonne, New Jersey. The plaque is made from metal salvaged from the ship.CITEREFCoughlin; A 6-pound deck gun from Maine is on the North lawn of the South Carolina State House in Columbia, South Carolina. [121]
Since World War I, poppies have been commonly worn to honor fallen soldiers, largely due to John McCrae’s popular poem "In Flanders Fields." There is a national moment of silence at 3 p.m.
The World War I Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine, United States. The current bridge was opened in 2013, replacing a bridge of similar design that existed from 1923 to 2012.
The Wall That Heals, a scaled version of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, is on display on Rte. 109 in Sanford, Maine, through Sept. 10, 2023.