Civil War Memorial - Lakeside Cemetery - Holly, MI
N 42° 47.922 W 083° 37.075
17T E 285916 N 4741785
For a young town, they lost a lot of young men.
Waymark Code: WM4EAE
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2008
Views: 28
Located just north of the entrance of Lakeside Cemetery is this Zinc Monument for the area's Civil War heroes.
The first side's text reads; Erected in honor of the soldiers from Holly, Rose, Groveland, Springfield who defended their country's flag from 1861 to 1865. By the Holly Women's Relief Corps.
The next side lists the names of thirty-six men. Followed by forty-six men on the third side and fourty-two on the fourth.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1889
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Holly Women's Relief Corps, Dept. of Mich.
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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