Wallkill Soldier's Monument - Middletown, NY
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neoc1
N 41° 27.025 W 074° 24.933
18T E 548817 N 4588924
The Wallkill Soldier's Monument is not physically in Wallkill, NY it was moved in 1894 to Trall Park in Middletown, NY.
Waymark Code: WMY7F2
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 05/05/2018
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A life-size granite figure of a Union soldier stands on a 15' by 7' square three-tiered granite base with a sculpted cannon at each corner. The soldier is wearing a cap, knee-length overcoat with a cape. He stands at parade rest holding a rifle vertically by the muzzle with his left hand over his right. the monument was sculpted by O.E. Owen and fabricated by the St. Johnsbury Granite Company.
The front of the base is inscribed:
ERECTED
A.D. 1879.
TO THE MEMORY
OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE TOWN OF
WALLKILL
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
1861 - 1865
On sides of base near the bottom are the inscriptions:
WALLKILL'S TRIBUTE TO
HER BRAVE DEFENDERS
OUR COMRADS
THEY DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
FRATERNITY,
CHARITY, LOYALTY