Veterans Memorial

January 23, 2016, 3:33 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

Military Conflicts in U.S. History

American Revolution (1775-1783)
War of 1812 (1812-1815)
Mexican War (1846-1848)
Civil War (1861-1865)
Indian Wars (Colonial Era to 1890)
Spanish American War (1898)
The Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901)
World War I (1914-1918)
Banana Wars (1898-1934)
World War II (1939-1945)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Vietnam War (1961-1973)
Dominican Republic (1965)
Lebanon (1982-1984)
Grenada (1983)
Panama (1989)
Gulf War (1991)
Somalia (1993)
Bosnia (1994-1995)
Kosovo (1999)
Global War on Terror (2001- )
Afghanistan (2001-2014)
Iraq War (2003-2010)
War Against the Islamic State (ISIS) (2014- )

(War, World II • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Vietnam • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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Father José María Vilaseca

January 23, 2016, 3:55 pm

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El Salvador, San Salvador, San Salvador

Padre Jose Maria Vilaseca
1831-1910
Fundador de Las Congregaciones Josefinas
125 Aniversario
1872-19 de septiembre-1997
“Adelante, Siempre Adelante,
Pues lo Quiere San José”
IPH

English translation:
Father José María Vilaseca
1831-1910
Founder of the Josephine Congregations
125th Anniversary
September 19, 1872-1997
“Go ahead, always ahead,
St. Joseph requests it”
IPH

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Veterans Memorial Carillon

January 23, 2016, 3:55 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

AMVETS in conjunction with the
Citizens of the area
dedicated this carillon as a
living memorial to
Arkansas-Oklahoma Veterans
who served their country honorably
for the Cause of Freedom
November 11, 1986
Fort Smith National Cemetery
Fort Smith, Arkansas

"...As these bells ring
...honored dead rest...freedom lives..."

(War, World II • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Trail of Tears

January 23, 2016, 5:08 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

This marks the last encampment of the Cherokee Indians on "The Trail of Tears,"
from their ancestral homes in the South to the land allotted them in the Indian Territory.

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

January 23, 2016, 5:31 pm

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Address by President Lincoln
at the dedication of
The Gettysburg National Cemetery
November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

(War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William O. Darby

January 23, 2016, 7:14 pm

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Born in Fort Smith Ark. Feb. 8, 1911
Graduate U.S.M.A. June 1933
Assistant Comdr. 10th Mountain Div.
Died in Po Valley Italy Apr. 30, 1945
Organized First Ranger Bn.
CO Ranger Force - Tunisia-Sicily-Italy
1942-1944
Comdr. 179th Infantry 45th Division
1944 1945 OPD WDGS

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Sebastian County Seat of Justice

January 24, 2016, 10:37 am

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

The permanent seat of justice in Sebastian County, created in 1851 was located on a site to which was given the name of Greenwood. In 1861 another court house was erected at Ft. Smith and since then the county has maintained two seats of justice. The county was named for William K. Sebastian, a United States Senator 1849-1861.

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Our Confederate Dead

January 24, 2016, 10:45 am

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[Title is text]

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Purple Heart Memorial

January 24, 2016, 11:01 am

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Dedicated to all men and women
wounded in all our wars.

My stone is red for the blood they shed.
The medal I bear is my country’s way
to show they care.
If I could be seen by all mankind
maybe peace will come in my lifetime.

(War, World II • War, Vietnam • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sebastian County California Gold Seekers

January 24, 2016, 11:11 am

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

The emigrant train of Forty-Niners, 5,000 strong, set out from Fort Smith in April, 1849, with an escort of United States [Army] Regulars under the command of Captain R. B. Marcy.

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50 Year Concrete Street Service Award • 1963

January 24, 2016, 12:09 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

Most 50-Year Old Concrete Streets
of Any City in U.S.A.
21.5 Miles

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United Spanish War Veterans Memorial

January 24, 2016, 12:18 pm

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[Title is text]

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Moon Tree

January 24, 2016, 12:59 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

This tree was grown from a seed
that journeyed to the Moon and back
aboard Apollo 14 1971
Planted here on Arbor Day March 15
Bicentennial Year 1976

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Craig Air Force Base

January 24, 2016, 1:25 pm

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Alabama, Dallas County, near Selma
On May 3. 1941, the largest flying field in the United States, military or civilian, opened its gates as a new unit of the Southeast Air Corps Training Center, where flying cadets received advanced schooling in the handling of multi-mile-a-minute pursuit planes. So it was the history of Craig Field began. It ended with the graduation of the UPT Class 77-08 on August 12, 1977, and the departure of the last official aircraft, a T-38 flown by Gen. John W. Roberts, commander of the Air Training Command. But in the 37 years and one week of its life, in excess of one million hours of flying time were logged, beginning with the AT-6 of 1941. including the T-37, and ending with the T-38. More than 30,000 students flew into the "wild blue yonder" from its runways. During aerial combat of World War II, Korea and Vietnam Craig graduates defended their country with valor. And there were many who touched the face of God.
The history of Craig Air Force Base is ended, but the pride and integrity of the 29th Flying Training Wing and its people live on.

(War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vietnam War Memorial

January 24, 2016, 2:48 pm

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This monument is dedicated to the brave sons of Sebastian County, Arkansas, who, in the defense of freedom in South Vietnam, made the supreme sacrifice. In a controversial, complex and diverse struggle, they answered the call of their country in a manner consistent with the finest traditions of our homeland. On this date, your brothers and sisters pay homage to your efforts and sacrifice in the sincere belief that your sacrifice will one day, ultimately, allow men to live as brothers and peace reign everywhere. We will never forget you.

CAPT Karl Edward WORST, U.S. Air Force
MIA 2 Mar 1966

PFC Leroy KOLB, Jr., U.S. Army
9 Apr 1966

SSGT Andrew Thomas BEST, U.S. Army
25 Jun 1966

LCDR Richard Allan MORAN, U.S. Navy
MIA 7 Aug 1966

PFC Marvin Ray COLE, U.S. Marines
21 Feb 1967

SP4 Charles Eugene METCALF, U.S. Army
24 Nov 1967

PFC Danny Ray WEST, U.S. Army
1 May 1968

PVT John Edward RICE, U.S. Marines
28 Jul 1968

PFC Ledell JOHNSON, Jr., U.S. Marines
4 Aug 1968

BM2 William Anthony HANNA, U.S. Navy
28 Feb 1969

SFC Elbert James SAULS, U.S. Army
14 Mar 1969

SGT Roy Arnold WOMACK, U.S. Army
30 Mar 1969

HM3 Frederick Edward FURR, U.S. Navy
29 Apr 1969

LTC Garland Bryan KING, Jr., U.S. Army
19 Jun 1969

PFC John Victor GILKER, U.S. Marines
24 Jun 1969

CPL Stephen Allen SNIDOW, U.S. Army
12 Aug 1969

SP4 Carl Calvin BATES, Jr., U.S. Army
17 Aug 1969

CPL Billy Duane CRELIA, U.S. Army
16 Feb 1970

SP5 Kevin Reynolds KELEHER, U.S. Army
30 Apr 1970

SSGT Arthur Houston PRICE, U.S. Army
26 Dec 1970

LCDR Paul Amos STOKES, U.S. Navy
17 Oct 1971

These [following] individuals, though not officially listed with Home of Record as Sebastian County, Arkansas, lived here, went to school here, and had family here. They, too, are Sons of Sebastian County.

SP4 Richard Bert BRUCE, U.S. Army
18 Mar 1969

LJG David Phillip NEISLAR, U.S. Navy
20 Feb 1969

PFC Oscar C. PHILLIPS, Jr., U.S. Army
21 Feb 1967

Dedicated 6 Dec. 92

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The New Theatre in 1911

January 24, 2016, 4:18 pm

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Ten years before the outbreak of the Civil War, the Old Red Mill stood on the future site of the New Theatre. The mill was used as a hospital during the Civil War, was damaged by the 1898 cyclone and finally disappeared around 1908. On the back section of the property the George T. Sparks estate built the 1,200 seat New Theatre in 1911. Designed as a Beaux Arts style playhouse by Kansas City architect Carl Boller, modeled after the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. The lavish interior featuring a proscenium stage was ideal for vaudeville shows and silent movies with orchestral accompaniment. In 1922, retail shops and a long Garrison Avenue entrance were built, nicknamed Peacock Alley, a place to see and be seen. In 1942, the theater was sold to Malco Theaters, Inc., who changed the name and modernized the interior space. The Malco Theater operated until the late 1970s when single screen theaters became passé.

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Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument

January 24, 2016, 6:07 pm

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Alabama, Dallas County, Selma

Front
Defender of Selma
Wizard of the Saddle
Untutored Genius
The First With the Most

This monument stands as testament of
our perpetual devotion and respect
for Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
CSA, 1821-1877, one of the south's
finest heroes.

In honor of Gen. Forrest's
unwavering defense of Selma
the great state of Alabama
and the Confederacy
this memorial is dedicated

Deo Vindice.



Right side
Forrest's Battles

1861
Sacramento, KY.

1862
Fort Donelson, TN.
Shiloh, TN.
Murfreesboro, TN.
Lexington, TN.
Parkers Crossroads, TN.

1863
Dover, TN.
Thompson's Station, TN.
Brentwood, TN.
Capture of Gen. Streight
Chickamauga, GA.

Left side
Forrest's Battles

1864
West Point, MS.
Okolona, MS.
Fort Pillow, TN.
Brices Crossroads, MS.
Tupelo, MS.
Memphis, TN.
Sulphur Trestle, AL.
Pulaski, TN.
Johnsonville, TN.
Springhill, TN.
Franklin, TN.
Nashville, TN.

1865
Battle of Selma, AL.

Rear
{Seal of the Confederate States of America}



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Great Cyclone at Fort Smith

January 24, 2016, 6:49 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

A cyclone, carrying death and destruction in its wake, visited Fort Smith at 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 11, 1898. Out of the western skies on an unusually balmy night came first an epic show of lightning followed by heavy winds. Then with the roar of a thousand freight trains a tornado of great proportion sprang from the Indian Territory, leaping over the Arkansas River and striking first at the National Cemetery then turning its force on Garrison Avenue, cutting a mile-long, 500 yard swath of destruction through Fort Smith. Property damage was placed at half a million dollars. As a beautiful morning dawned on January 12th, 55 people were dead or dying and 113 were seriously injured.

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First National Bank

January 24, 2016, 8:27 pm

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Arkansas, Sebastian County, Fort Smith

In 1888, First National Bank built its first bank building, a modest two-story brick building at South Sixth and Garrison. A few years into the 20th century, bank president Samuel McLoud ordered plans drawn up for what would be the tallest building in Fort Smith to replace the old bank. The new building would utilize the most modern designs to ensure customer comfort, efficiency of operation and the protection of deposits. The landmark eight-story First National Bank building opened Jan. 31, 1910, the lobby awash in white marble, electric lights and ceiling fans, the custom tile floor accessorized with heavy brass spittoons. One hundred years later, First National Bank remained our largest financial institution and the second oldest bank in Arkansas.

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Gibbon House

January 25, 2016, 6:39 am

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New Jersey, Cumberland County, Greenwich
Built in 1730 by Nicholas Gibbon, maritime merchant whose ships carried most of the colonial trade of this port.

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