File:Memorial to the "Start Westward of the United States" (front).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(4,032 × 2,268 pixels, file size: 17.63 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: Front of the Memorial to the "Start Westward of the United States" plaque in front of the Start Westward Monument statue in Muskingum Park, Marietta, Ohio.
Date
Source Own work
Author Jonathan A Brier
Camera location39° 24′ 56.57″ N, 81° 27′ 27.48″ W  Heading=175° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Memorial to the “Start Westward of the United States”


Sculpted for Marietta's Sesquicentennial by Gutzon Borglum
——————————
Dedicated July 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a tribute to those farsighted pioneers who journeyed here from New England in 1788 and established Marietta as the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory under the landmark Ordinance of 1787
——————————
Rededicated July 1988 at the Closing Ceremonies for Marietta's Bicentennial Celebration to the Sesquicentennial Pioneer Caravan and in memory of Edwin “Zeke” Pugh (1917-1988) member of the 1937-1938 Caravan and leader of the 1987-1988 Bicentennial Trekkers.
——————————
Restored as a Bicentennial project through generous contributions from school children in Marietta and Washington County.
——————————
Other contributors to the 1987-1988 restoration:

Northwest Ordinance/U.S. Constitution Bicentennial Commission, U.S. Capitol Bicentennial Christmas Tree Fund, Wayne National Forest, Marian Baesel Schimmel Sesquicentennial Pioneer Caravan, Ohio Historical Society, Colonial Dames 17th Century, Marietta Mary Ann Genheimer, Mary Gardner Owen Society, N.S.C.A.R., Marietta Bicentennial Commission

Licensing[edit]

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:54, 5 July 2022Thumbnail for version as of 18:54, 5 July 20224,032 × 2,268 (17.63 MB)Wolfgang8741 (talk | contribs)Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Memorial_to_the_%22Start_Westward_of_the_United_States%22_(front).jpg&oldid=851754643"