Confederate Soldiers And Sailors Monument (Indianapolis)
The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (or Garfield Park Confederate Prisoner of War Monument) was a large granite monument that sat at the south entrance of Garfield Park (Indianapolis), Garfield Park in Indianapolis for nearly a century, before being removed in 2020. It commemorated the Confederate Prisoner of war, prisoners of war that died at Camp Morton. At tall and located in the city's oldest public park, it had been the most prominent of the very few Confederate memorials in the Union (American Civil War), Union state of Indiana. It was dismantled and removed by the city of Indianapolis in June 2020 after a yearslong debate, part of a national wave of Monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests, removal of Confederate memorials during the Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter movement. Background Shortly after the start of the Civil War, the original Indiana State Fairgrounds site in present-day Herron–Morton Place Historic District was c ...
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Garfield Park (Indianapolis)
Garfield Park is a regional city park in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Established in the late 19th century, it is the oldest city park in Indianapolis and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The park is located at the confluence of Pleasant Run and Bean Creeks on the near Southside of Indianapolis. The Conservatory and Sunken Gardens are located in the eastern portion of the park. The noted landscape architect George Edward Kessler designed the Sunken Gardens along with many of the other features of the park as part of his Park and Boulevard Plan for the city. Geography Garfield Park is bounded by Raymond Street on the north; South Garfield Drive, East Garfield Drive, and Shelby Street on the east; Southern Avenue on the south; and the Louisville and Indiana Railroad tracks on the west. Emmerich Manual High School lies directly to the west on the other side of the railroad track embankment. Much of the park is rolling fields, due at least in part to its ...
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