Evansville Bicentennial Tribute Time Capsule - Evansville, IN, USA
N 37° 58.036 W 087° 34.459
16S E 449553 N 4202338
Evansville, IN celebrated their bicentennial in part by burying a time capsule as part of the monuments along the Riverfront Esplanade, between the Korean War Memorial and the Four Freedoms Memorial.
Waymark Code: WM9HQ5
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2010
Views: 13
Literally, buried among the various wonderful monuments and memorials along the Evansville, IN Riverfront Esplanade is a time capsule preserving bits of history from 1976 that will not see light of day until July 4, 2176. The time capsule is easily overlooked, being wedged in between a flag pole's base and three vertical concrete slabs with commemorative plaques on them telling about the bicentennial and the Four Freedoms Memorial. If you weren't careful you'd not realize a time capsule was there at all. It just looks like the sidewalk and surrounding foundations of the flag pole and informational slabs surrounding it. But this gem of history is really there and will someday in the future cause other generations to laugh and reminisce their "olden days" we now live in. The time capsule was placed by the Evansville Bicentennial Tribute committee. The inscription on the concrete cap says, "Time Capsule/closed/June 18, 1979/ To Be Opened/July 4, 2176/." It will celebrate the time in history 200 year AFTER 1776, when the USA became a nation, to be opened and enjoy 200 years AFTER it was sealed and buried and 400 years from 1776.
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