Your chance to get involved
with this unique program!
What better way to conjure up local interest in this marvelous Soldiers' Monument than to create an Adopt-a-Monument
program! When an individual or group have a vested interest in something like this it creates not only a sense of duty,
but a sense of honour and pride.
Here is how the program would work. A single sponsor or organization can adopt the monument by agreeing
to underwrite its' conservation and/or maintenance. The donations would go into its' own conservation and
maintenance fund.
The challenge to such a program is promotion. An integral part of promoting the Adopt-a-Monument
program is educating the public, especially younger generations, about the historical and aesthetic significance of our
city's monument.
The Soldiers' wish list:
• Apply waterproofing.
• Repair the freestone pedestal.
• Replace the old curbing with raised curbing around the monuments perimeter.
• Install an iron fence to surround the perimeter of the area.
• Post a brass plaque engraved with the names of the area Civil War Veterans on the back-side of the pedestal.
• Provide crosswalks leading to Monument
• Provide wheel-chair accessibility at back-side of monument.
• Post a sign at back-side of monument briefly describing its history, the artists, and those responsible for the
erection of the monument.
Future Goals:
• Compile a book about The Soldiers’ Monument and Monument Square.
• Work with the local schools to promote local history using the Soldiers’ monument as a steppingstone.
