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Confederate Park
1915 In Memory of the Women of Our Southland During the Spanish American War, the land comprising this park was the campsite of the 49th Regiment of Iowa Infantry, waiting to embarq to the theater of war. This land became Dignan Park, and was the location in 1914 of the 24th annual national reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. Some 8,000 veterans and tens of thousands of onlookers participated in the event, and in recognition the city renamed the park as Confederate Park (see the Newsreel of the reunion on the Florida Memory website, http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/video/video.cfm?VID=2). On October 26, 1915, the Women of the Southern Confederacy monument was dedicated "In memory of the women of our southland." The monument, which had a total cost of $25,000, was erected by the Florida Division of the United Confederate Veterans with the assistance of an appropriation of $13,000 from the Florida legislature. « prev 1 next »

Confederate Park

1915

In Memory of the Women of Our Southland

During the Spanish American War, the land comprising this park was the campsite of the 49th Regiment of Iowa Infantry, waiting to embarq to the theater of war. This land became Dignan Park, and was the location in 1914 of the 24th annual national reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. Some 8,000 veterans and tens of thousands of onlookers participated in the event, and in recognition the city renamed the park as Confederate Park (see the Newsreel of the reunion on the Florida Memory website, http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/video/video.cfm?VID=2).

On October 26, 1915, the Women of the Southern Confederacy monument was dedicated "In memory of the women of our southland." The monument, which had a total cost of $25,000, was erected by the Florida Division of the United Confederate Veterans with the assistance of an appropriation of $13,000 from the Florida legislature.

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