Kingfisher County Bicentennial Memorial Monument - Kingfisher, OK
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N 35° 51.602 W 097° 55.949
14S E 596384 N 3968950
This commemoration includes a bell and sculpture.
Waymark Code: WMNZ4D
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2015
Views: 4
Commemorating the United States of America's Bicentennial, the County of Kingfisher has established this memorial at the front of the County Sheriff's Department.
A ten foot high light-colored brick wall, slightly curved, stands behind the monument area. On this wall are two bronze plaques reading:
Kingfisher County
1776 Bicentennial 1976
Memorial Monument
Dedicated to All Generations
"A Past to Remember
A Future to Mold
And God to Glorify"
Memorializing:
Those who Gave their Lives
For our Freedom
The Farmer
He Feeds the World
The Bell
Proclaiming Freedom Throughout the Land
(Leviticus XXV:10)
This Memorial Monument to the
Bicentennial of the United States of America
Was Made Possible by the Mutual Helpfulness
Of Interested Citizens. It was a Project of
The Kingfisher Bicentennial Committee and
Sponsored by the Keith Lowry - Henry Ellyson
Post No. 5 of the American Legion
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The Bell is From the Old Lacy School
Given by Kathryn and Cecil Enix in Memory of
Her Parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Earl Gulker
In front of this wall stands a bronze sculpture of a farmer, mounted on a three foot high brick base. The farmer is leaning on a pitchfork. At the front of the memorial area is a shorter wall on which is mounted a silver bell which came from the Old Lacy School, which is rung from time to time by the City.
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