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Memorial Park

Gazebo @1988

Photo of volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park

Volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park @1988

Categories Cornell College District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, Gazebo, Memorial Park

Gazebo @1988

Photo of volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park

Volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park @1988. Photo donated by Ed Sauter

Categories Cornell College District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, Gazebo, Memorial Park

Gazebo @1988

Photo of volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park

Volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park @1988. Photos donated by Ed Sauter

Categories Cornell College District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, Gazebo, Memorial Park

Gazebo @1988

Photo of gazebo in Memorial Park

The gazebo in Memorial Park @1988 is used for weddings, summer concerts, picnics, CDG celebrations … Read more …

Categories Cornell College District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, Gazebo, Memorial Park

Gazebo @1988

Photo of gazebo construction in Memorial Park

Volunteers constructing gazebo in Memorial Park @1988. Photo donated by Ed Sauter

Categories Cornell College District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, Gazebo, Memorial Park

Buildings that Moved

Photo of Visitor Center with Lincoln Highway Marker

Visitor Center/Wolfe Brothers Medical Office

Categories Building Genealogies Tags Memorial Park, Wolfe Family, Wolfe Office

Memorial Park-May 2020

Photo of Memorial Park-2020

Memorial Park-May 2020

Categories Cornell College District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, Memorial Park, Mount Vernon

Memorial Park Gazebo

Photo of Memorial Park Gazebo, June 2003

Memorial Park Gazebo. Photograph by Bob Campagna, June 2003.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Memorial Park, Mount Vernon

Sunset Behind Water Tower

Photo of Sunset Behind Water Tower

Sunset Behind Water Tower. Photograph by Bob Campagna, 1998.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Memorial Park, Mount Vernon

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2 years ago

Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission
The MVHPC partnered with the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Development Group on the placement of two new informational kiosks about the history of the Lincoln Hwy in Lisbon and Mount Vernon. There was a commemoration at the Kiosk in Lisbon on Oct. 6 with a poem created for the event by Poet Laureate Amanda Kibbie. The MV Kiosk is located in Prairie Park next to the Cornell football field. The MV kiosk faces one of the last remaining brick portions of the Lincoln Hwy and is near the 10th Avenue Overpass. The overpass was built in approximately 1910 as a part of the Lincoln Hwy. Credit to Steven Ciha of the LCHPC for images. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 years ago

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UPDATE!!! Thanks to Jay and Arlie Willems, the circa 1910 glass negatives are now in the Mount Vernon Archives. We are grateful to Arlie and Jay for transporting the negatives and to Joe Burkart of Crestview Florida for donating them.Photo collectors in Crestview Florida have glass plate negatives of a photographer named Hodson who worked in and around Mount Vernon in 1910. The collectors have offered the negatives to the MVHPC. The plates are fragile and very heavy, so shipping them is not a good option. Is anyone planning to travel by car to Florida anytime in the next year and willing pick up these negatives in the panhandle of the state? If so, please send a message on this site to the site administrator. ... See MoreSee Less
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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission updated their status.

2 years ago

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