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 Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Portland, OR
N 45° 31.085 W 122° 38.540
10T E 527934 N 5040567
This is plaque honoring Abraham Lincoln is in Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, OR.
Waymark Code: WMGN99
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2013
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This plaque, honoring Abraham Lincoln, is part of a multi-part Memorial to the veterans of several wars.
This plaque has Lincoln's likeness and the Gettysburg Address, which is probably his most famous speach:
"The Gettyburg Address
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."
Location Type: Historic Marker
Property Type: Public
Date of Event: 11/19/1863
Location Notes:
The Soldier's Monument, which is located just behind the Lincoln plaque, honors Mexican War Veterans, Indian War Veterans, Spanish American War Veterans, Civil War Veterans. The entire memorial was unveiled in 1903 at the original cost was $3,500, which was contributed by 500 local residents. The memorial was commissioned by the Lone Fir Cemetery Association, who hired designer D.D. Neer and builder Otto Schumann. For quite some time, the soldier was toppled from his pedestal. Then, for the 100th anniversary of the memorial (in 2003), the Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery raised funds and had it rebronzed and reset.
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