John McDonogh Monument - New Orleans, LA
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N 29° 56.904 W 090° 04.250
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The John McDonogh monument faces the old city hall in Lafayette Square, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Waymark Code: WM12B1G
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 04/17/2020
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Excerpt from the New Orleans City Guide, 1938: "Facing St. Charles St, on a white granite pedestal, is the McDonogh Monument. The figures of a small boy and girl are shown offering floral tribute to the man who left his fortune to the public schools of Baltimore and New Orleans.-- In 1892 a movement to acknowledge the debt of New Orleans to McDonogh was begun, and by 1898 $7000 had been raised, and Atallio Picoirilli, a young New York sculptor, designed the statue of bronze and granite. On December 29, 1898 McDonogh's birthday, the bust was unbeiled."
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From Wikipedia: "John McDonogh (December 29, 1779 – October 26, 1850) was a United States entrepreneur whose adult life was spent in south Louisiana and later in Baltimore. As a slave owner, he supported the American Colonization Society, which organized transportation for freed people of color to Liberia, in Africa, and also organized a plan for self-purchase by slaves in his control. In his will he provided large grants for the public education of children of poor whites and freed people of color in New Orleans and Baltimore. He was described as miserly, controversial, and eccentric." (
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