The standings after two days of this week’s Name This Place contest:
Victoria Moon Conway: 7
crpiii: 3
Jack Elliott: 2
Tom Barnes: 2
Suzassippi: 1
Still plenty of time to jump right in if you know where a sign is located as today will have a total of three posts. And I notice that no one has ventured into the particular history of the signs themselves, so you could conceivably still earn points on previous days’ posts if you know, for instance, the history of neon church signs such as yesterday’s First Methodist Church in Itta Bena, which crpiii identified after only half an hour, thwarting my efforts to stump everyone.
As this morning is the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death, a quote by him seemed most appropriate to start off the day. Where is it located?
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Categories: Contest
Preservation in Mississippi 
The National Military Park in Vicksburg
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Where in the park?
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Illinois Monument?
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Built by the Culver Construction Company
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Words are from his first inaugural address, March 4, 1861. Architect William Le Baron Jenney, sculptors Charles Mulligan and Frederick Triebel.
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I think this is the only work by Jenney in Mississippi. He had been a solider at Vicksburg years before.
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The monument itself is built of Stone Mountain Georgia granite on the base, and Georgia white marble above the base. There are 47 steps in the stairway, one for each day of the siege. It is modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and has 60 bronze tablets inside with the names of the 36,325 Illinois soldiers participating in the “Vicksburg Campaign.” It is 62 feet high, and cost $194,423.92.
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Stone Mountain is the most aptly named mountain. :)
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Well, let’s see. Tom and sec040121, how about you split the two point prize since Tom made the initial ID and sec040121 narrowed it down to the Illinois Monument. Then Tom gets another point about the contractor, Suzassippi grabs A point by naming the architect and sculptor and another point for giving us more information about the sign itself. So, that gives us, so far, Tom, 2 points; sec040121, 1 point; and Suzassippi, 2 points. Still one piece of information that’s worth one point by my reckoning.
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American Art Bronze Foundary did the bronze work? Monument was constructed 1906, although plans were announced in 1904 and sculptor and architect selected 1905.
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The construction date was the piece that was missing–one more point for you!
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Lincoln is from Illinois
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Okay, technically Kentucky, but he served Illinois.
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And he died 150 years ago today.
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I said that at the beginning of today’s post. I’m tempted to give you a point for stating the obvious :-)
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I couldn’t help myself.
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