Soldiers Sailors & Pioneers Monument

Soldiers Sailors & Pioneers Monument

Soldiers Sailors & Pioneers Monument
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ElaineAndGreg
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Mar 2021
The Soldiers Sailors and Pioneers Monument is hard to miss. It's at the edge of downtown Hamilton by the Great Miami river and the bridge that crosses it.

The monument itself was build around 1906 to honor those in Hamilton who served in the various wars up to that time.

On the outside, the monument is about 100 feet tall. What looks like a life-size statue of a soldier on the top is actually 17 feet tall. Note that it's just an ordinary soldier, not a general.

Inside there are large glass windows commemorating the role of women in supporting the war effort. There are also a large number of artifacts, such as the remains of a tree with two civil war cannonballs embedded in it. The monument is staffed by enthusiastic volunteers who have created computerized databases etc. There are also rotating displays relating to wars since the monument's creation.

This is definitely worth a stop-by if you are in the area. Roughly catty-corner across the street, you can see the old municipal building, now with the name of Hamilton Hall. It is a nice Art Deco structure. The friezes were actually done by children's illustrator Robert McCullough when he was only 19. It's worth a walk around.
Written 23 March 2021
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