The Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs was rededicated Friday afternoon in ceremonies celebrating the completion of an ambitious two-year restoration project.
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This monument depicting a Union Soldier was erected in 1891 by Charles Strahan, a former Confederate who relocated to Martha's Vineyard after the Civil War. (A historical marker located in Oak Bluff in Dukes County, Massachusetts.)
That’s when the Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain, topped by a zinc statue of a Union soldier, was erected in Oak Bluffs to honor members of the island’s chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the preeminent organization for federal veterans of the Civil War. It is to that monument’s cast iron base that the tablet was affixed, among three existing plaques honoring GAR members.
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Soldiers' Memorial Fountain Monument is located at Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. This monument depicting a Federal soldier was erected in 1891 by Charles Strahan, a former Confederate soldier who relocated to Martha's Vineyard after the American Civil War.
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