Grubbtown Civil War Monument - Philadelphia, PA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This is a most surreal place to find a Civil War memorial/monument. It is in an out of the way place, and unless you did the geocache, one would never find it. The Civil War statue has been attacked by local savages time and again, each time it is fixed, it angers the criminals and they graffiti it again and try to tear it down. It still stands proudly in the park. It is up on a platform surrounded by a crumbling stone wall. There are stone steps leading up to the memorial.

The memorial is on top of a huge, roughly hewn, squarish rock. The monument is also known as the Old Soldiers War Memorial and was dedicated on July 4, 1899. The sculpture is made of marble and granite as well as the base, which is composed as the same medium. The shaft is approximately H. 79 in. x W. 13 in with the base being approximately H. 7 ft. x W. 20 in. The tall obelisk has reliefs on the west face of an eagle atop flag shield, and crossed flags on cannon ball pile.

The memorial was restored in 1999 and rededicated with a replacement plaque. Two weeks after the restoration, it was vandalized and disfigured with graffiti. Subsequent repairs were made. Information on the memorial can be found at the Frankford Historical Society Archives and card index Cresentville; at the Free Library at Race Street (local history of Olney file); and at the Pennsylvania Historical Society (Cresentville file).

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