“The Sand Creek Massacre: profound, symbolic, spiritual, controversial, a site unlike any other in America. As 675 cavalrymen came around a prairie bend, the camps of Chiefs Black Kettle, White Antelope, and Left Hand lay in the valley before them. Chaotic, horrific, tumultuous, and bloody, the events of November 29, 1864 changed the course of history.”
https://www.nps.gov/sand/index.htm
Proctor’s Ledge Memorial was built in 2017 to mark the 325th anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. It is the site where 19 people were hanged as witches during the Salem Witch Trials, which began in 1692 and ended in 1693 when the use of spectral evidence was declared inadmissible in court.
According to the court transcripts, the “afflicted girls” accused Martha Carrier of killing 13 people in Andover, which she responded to by telling the judges that “It is a shameful thing that you should mind these folks that are out of their wits”. Martha Carrier was found guilty and hanged for practicing witchcraft on August 19, 1692 at this site and her body was left partially buried in the crevice below the ledge.
The victims honored at the memorial are:
Bridget Bishop, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Wildes, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, Sr,, John Proctor, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Martha Corey, Mary Easty
This memorial monument was built by the interned families at the Butte Camp Japanese internment camp to honor their sons who died as US soldiers during WWII. It is maintained by the families and the Gila River Indian Community. This site is not open to the public.
Commissioned and donated by University of Texas regent George W. Littlefield
Installed at University of Texas Littlefield Fountain 1919
Moved to the South Mall 1933
Removed 2017
UT’s president had the four statues that lined the South Mall removed after Charlottesville made it clear “Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
Inscription:
Whither thou goest I will go
Where thou lodgest I will lodge
Thy people shall be my people
And thy God my God
The First National Monument Honoring LGBT Rights. “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began.”
- President Barack Obama, 2013 Inaugural Address
“Michiko Gingery filed a lawsuit against the city of Glendale and called for removal of the 1,100-pound bronze statue since it was erected in the community’s Central Park in 2013. The memorial depicts a girl in Korean garb sitting next to an empty chair, and it commemorates the wartime victims known as comfort women. Gingery claims it unconstitutionally disrupted the federal government’s foreign policy and relationship with Japan.”
https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/tn-gnp-me-comfort-women-20160804-story.html
This podium is now part of an interactive display at the Ronald Reagan Library.
Dedicated 1927
The statue is a replica of the original bronze at the Tuskegee Institute by sculptor Charles Keck. The inscription reads: "He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry."
Monument to the slaves of Isaac Royall Jr., whose fortune helped establish Harvard Law School, dedicated 2017
Texas State Troopers and Monuments: Heroes of the Alamo, 1891 and Terry’s Texas Rangers, Erected 1907 by surviving comrades.
In 1863 Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own troops during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson’s arm was amputated and given a Christian burial. This site was dedicated in 1903 and is maintained by the National Park Service, along with the “Stonewall Jackson Shrine” which was renamed in 2019 as “Stonewall Jackson Death Site” 30 miles away.
Chimayo, New Mexico
National Historic Site of the Sand Creek Massacre fence, Colorado