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The State Legislature formed the Bennett Place Memorial Commission in 1923 with the intent of building a monument to national unity at the site. Sources differ as to who designed the monument - one, more credible source states that W.H. Dacy designed the memorial; another states that architects Milburn and Heister, who designed a multitude of other...

Text reads: "Member of the General Assembly of the state - Mayor of Durham - Chairman of the Commissioners of the County - Justice of the Peace for fifty years - His life was given to the service of his neighbors to whom he was ever a symbol of rectitude and pattern of virtue - Presented to the County of Durham by his daughter, Sarah Angier Duke...

Plaque Reads: "ROLL OF HONOR 1941 * 1945 IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTY'S CALL IN WORLD WAR II THE DURHAM EXCHANGE CLUB DEDICATES THIS MEMORIAL" 'This Prayer we make in penitence / that all who pass by here may sense the costliness of human strife / the value of a soldier's life.'" Names: (OCRed - needs editing.) JOSEPIf MARSHALL lOX...

04.21.14 (G. Kueber) Dedicated in 1921 by the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR 1917 * 1919 ROLL OF THE HONORED DEAD. Andrews, Junie Blake, Carl Brafford, Albert B. Clarke, William Cole, Norman Cullow, James Denny, Hoyt Ewing, Arthur L. Ewing, Willie Faucette, John Ferrell, C.G. Fuller, Roy H...