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 Peace Light Memorial, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Posted by:  deano1943
N 39° 50.904 W 077° 14.610
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The Peace Light Monument is located in the Gettysburg National Military Park, just off Mummasburg Road at Oak Hill, at Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Waymark Code: WM134D
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 12/31/2006
Views: 62
The Peace Light Memorial was dedicated on July 3, 1938 by Northern and Southern Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg. Contributions were received from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, New York, and Indiana.
Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the monument. The gas-fed eternal flame was ignited by a Union and Confederate Veteran's.
Due to the energy crises in the early 1970's, the flame of peace was extinguished and replaced by a soduim vapor light in 1978.
The architect was Paul P. Cret, Sculptor was Lee Lawrie, was built of Alabama Limestone and Crab Orchard Flagstone at a cost of about $50,000.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 07/03/1938
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Contributions from states of: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, New York, and Indiana
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Other or General Civil War
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