Lansden Park - Cairo, IL
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 37° 00.475 W 089° 11.071
16S E 305637 N 4097981
Small city park making use of a traffic triangle
Waymark Code: WMM0A8
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member DougK
Views: 1

County of park: Alexander County
Locaation of park: bordered by Walnut St., Holbrook Ave., 26th St. & Charles Ave.

Most web sites, such as this article: "In Lansden Park, a memorial remembers the Tigress. The river packet TIGRESS, commandeered by the Union Army, carried General U. S. Grant up the Tennessee River to the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. A year later the TIGRESS was sunk while running the shore batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The crew survived and returned her flagpole to Cairo." (Southern Illinois History>
This is not [location] true. The flag pole and marker are INSIDE the old Cairo Custom House Museum

Dedication plaque about the gazebo text:

Lansden Park Gazebo
The cupola on top of this gazebo originally came from the Andrew Lohr Home located across the street at 2710 Walnut. The house was erected about 1892 and occupied by Lohr, one of Cairo's earliest residents. Lohr operated a bottling facility at 424-8th Street. The cupola was rescued by Cairo Police Officers Michael Bryan and James "Dee" Harris, II, before the house was razed. The gazebo at Lansden Park was facilitated by Cairo Mayor James E. Wilson, designed by Monica L. Smith.

Name: Lansden Park

Street Location: Walnut St., Holbrook Ave., 26th St. & Charles Ave.

Local Municipality: Cairo

State/Province, etc.: Illinois

Country: United States

Memorial/Commemoration: please see long description

Date Established: December 1996

Picnic Facilities: none

Recreational Facilities:
None


Monuments/Statues: to the National Guard Unit

Art (murals/sculpture, etc.): None

Fountains: None

Ponds/Lakes/Streams/Rivers/Beach: None

Special Events: Unknown

Traditional Geocaches:
Closest is 3 miles away in Fort Defieance


Web Site: Not listed

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