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Memorial of Cedar Rapids honors war service on island site
A 1920 Gazette outline recalls Cedar Rapids Battery E of the 126th Field Artillery nicknamed Cedar Rapids Own. Funds funded a memorial island for the Spanish American War Civil War and Great War, approved June 1 1925, with a commission and a design featuring a tower, memorial window by Grant Wood, and a 165 foot cenotaph inspired by London Unknown Soldier. Construction began 1927 as foundation walls rose and the steel frame went up. The inscription from Columbia was planned above the arches.
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126Th Field Artillery
Cedar Rapids
Mound Farm
France
Edwin Probasco
Probasco
Iowa
Grand Army of the Republic
American Legion
Second Avenue
Grant Wood
Memorial Commission
Henry Hornbostel
Pittsburgh
London
Columbia
Ocean
C.B. Robbins
O.F. Paulson