Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk, sometimes called the Harrisburg Obelisk, is an Egyptian-style obelisk that was erected in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a tribute to Dauphin County’s Civil War soldiers. Designed by civil engineer E. Hudson Worrall, its planning, development and dedication phases were supervised by the Dauphin County Soldiers' Monument Association, which was formed by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly on January 30, 1867."70th Anniversary of Civil War Monument At Second and State Recalls Gay Bazars By Which City Erected the Memorial." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Evening News, March 13, 1939, Section 2, front page (subscription required). Read more on Wikipedia
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