Maryland State Monument, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1910 - 1920
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Oehrlein & Associates, contractor
Black, Reed, field team
Anderson, Doug, field team
Oehrlein, Mary, project manager
Amundson, David W, delineator
Location
maryland, 39.45277, -77.74374
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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