Gardens of Remembrance - Hauppauge, NY
Posted by: 
mja108
N 40° 49.428 W 073° 13.403
18T E 649816 N 4520716
A memorial to those residents of Suffolk County who lost their lives on 9/11.
Waymark Code: WMB7B8
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/14/2011
Views: 14
The Armed Forces Plaza in front of Hauppauge's H. Lee Dennison building has many statues and monuments recognizing Suffolk County veterans and those who have lost their lives.
New York State Route 454 cuts through the heart of Hauppauge and is better known locally as Veterans Memorial Highway. It draws its names from the various monuments and memorials built along its roadside, among the prominent is the Armed Forces Plaza in front of the H. Lee Dennison building.
The plaza has statues, monuments, plaques and more representing various event in United States' history: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, SEPTEMBER 11, and the "forgotten wars." It can be accessed by roadway entrance to the county office building, and parking in nearest the roadside where there is a concrete pathway leads into the plaza. The memorial is open from dawn to dusk, 7 days a week. There is little outdoor lighting of this area at night; however, the 9/11 memorial itself is lit from inground lights and is quite impressive at night.
The Memorial is a large square of glass panels. A central inaccessible garden planted with local foliage, intended to grow naturally without intervention; surrounded by a manicured accessible garden incorporating the rest of the one-acre site. The boundary between the two gardens is a wall composed of 188 individual, clear glass panels. Except three informational panels, at eye level, each panel is etched with the name of the one of the victims, along with is the name of a person that lost their life on Sept. 11. It lists their name, age, the company they worked for or fire company they were attached to, and the city in Suffolk County they lived in. A portrait of the victim is etched above eye level in such a way that each can only be seen from a bench underneath that individual panel. Looking up, the face of each individual will be seen against the backdrop of the sky.
Visitors are permitted to take pictures of the memorial and leave behind tokens, such as flowers or flags in honors of their veterans and loved ones .
The memorial sits along Veterans Memorial Highway on the north side and the parking lot of the H. Lee Dennison building on the south side. There is ample parking adjacent to the plaza.
As a veteran I was drawn to this plaza to visit the memorials and monuments for veterans, but was moved by the beauty of the 9/11 memorial, espcially when lit up at night.
Date of Dedication: 09/11/2009
Name of organization that built the memorial: Suffolk County was the lead organization in the building of this memorial
Private or Public Monument?: Government
Text on the memorial:
A photo is uploaded showing this information.
Physical address of memorial:
H. Lee Dennison Building
100 Veterans Memorial Highway
Hauppauge, NY USA
11788
Additional coordinates: Not Listed
Website for more information: Not listed
|
Visit Instructions:
A picture of yourself (or your GPS if you are alone and cannot get someone to take your picture) at the memorial. Logs without pictures should be deleted by the waymark owner.