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Fort Pepperrell expanded significantly after the United States entered the war with the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. During late 1941 and early 1942, multiple units left the temporary tent city to fill the new military base until capacity was reached on February 27, 1942, when the final unit, the headquarters of Newfoundland Base ...
Grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln located at the Pioneer Cemetery at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Spencer County. Nancy Hanks Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City; NRHP-listed
Camp Morton served as a military camp for Union soldiers from April 1861 to February 1862. [1] Two days after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, Indiana's governor Morton offered to raise and equip ten thousand Indiana troops in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to suppress the Southern rebellion and ...
The privately owned cemetery, northwest of downtown, borders present-day Thirty-Eighth Street. [4] In 1866 the U.S. government authorized a National Cemetery for Indianapolis in Section 10 of Crown Hill and made arrangements for the removal of the soldiers from Greenlawn. [5]
On June 4, 2020, after days of Black Lives Matter protests in Indianapolis and throughout the country after the murder of George Floyd, Mayor Joe Hogsett announced that the city was currently identifying the source of an estimated $50,000–$100,000 which would be required to dismantle the monument, which he said could happen within a week. [24]
Fort Benjamin Harrison was a U.S. Army post located in suburban Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis, between 1906 and 1991. It is named for the 23rd United States president , Benjamin Harrison .
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
Fort Harrison was opened in 1906 by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring former President Benjamin Harrison, who was from Indianapolis.The idea came from Lieutenant Colonel Russell Harrison, son of recently deceased Benjamin Harrison, who wanted to keep a military facility in Indianapolis due to the legacy of such Indianapolis military facilities as Camp Morton.