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Maryland State Monument, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

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Significance: It was commissioned in 1898 by the Maryland General Assembly to honor the Union and Confederate soldiers from the state who fought in the Battle of Antietam. The monument is located in a grove of trees across the Hagerstown Pike from Dunker Church in the Antietam National Battlefield. The monument was dedicated on Decoration Day, May 30, 1900, in a ceremony attended by President McKinley and other dignitaries...

Survey number: HABS MD-1116

Building/structure dates: 1898-1900 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

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monuments and memorials hexagonal buildings stone buildings granite war civil war historic sites maryland monument maryland state monument sharpsburg washington county david w amundson doug anderson reed black historic american buildings survey oehrlein and associates mary oehrlein photo architecture american architecture church architecture assembly plants manufacturing plants building church buildings wwi architectural diagrams library of congress national register of historic places
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1910 - 1920
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Oehrlein & Associates, contractor
Black, Reed, field team
Anderson, Doug, field team
Oehrlein, Mary, project manager
Amundson, David W, delineator
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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monuments and memorials hexagonal buildings stone buildings granite war civil war historic sites maryland monument maryland state monument sharpsburg washington county david w amundson doug anderson reed black historic american buildings survey oehrlein and associates mary oehrlein photo architecture american architecture church architecture assembly plants manufacturing plants building church buildings wwi architectural diagrams library of congress national register of historic places