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1977
Lorenzo Gonzalez
Even on a windless day the cape swirls around this hero of three revolutionary wars. As a young man, Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816) commanded Spanish forces in support of the American Revolution. Later the native Venezuel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20I7_a-home-for-art_Philadelphia-PA.html
Most of the early 20th century plans for the Parkway included two major art museums, each with its own art school.
The architects dreamed of students learning to create works of art next door to grand museums devoted to showing great works of art…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20I0_civil-war-soldiers-and-sailors-memorial_Philadelphia-PA.html
Designed as a formal gateway to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, there 40-foot pylons of Tennessee marble commemorate military men of the Civil war. The figures at the base of the north column portray soldiers, and the group of the south column hono…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HW_philadelphia-electric-company_Philadelphia-PA.html
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Philadelphia Electric Company and the Lighting of Forty-nine Arc Lamps On Chestnut Street from The Delaware River to the Schuykill River
December 3, 1881
The event marked the inauguration of electric …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HV_president-abraham-lincoln-a-war-memorial_Philadelphia-PA.html
On February 21, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln, journeying to his inaugural, spoke from the balcony of the Continental Hotel, then on this site.
Referring to "the teachings coming forth from that sacred (Independence) hall," he proclai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HT_rodin-museum_Philadelphia-PA.html
The Rodin Museum was the gift of movie theater magnate Jules Mastbaum to his native city of Philadelphia.
Mastbaum began collecting works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin with the intent of founding a museum to enrich the lives of his fellow citi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HS_the-thinker_Philadelphia-PA.html
1880-81, enlarged 1902-1904
August Rodin (1840-1917)
Rodin first imagined The Thinkeras a small central figure near the top of The Gates of Hell , a sculpture now installed at the Rodin Museum. The Gates of Hell is based on The Inferno, an epic …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GZ_fairmount-water-works_Philadelphia-PA.html
From 1815 to 1909 the Fairmount Water Works served Philadelphia by supplying drinking water from the Schuykill River to Reservoirs once located behind you.
1815: Engine House (1) contained wood burning steam engines that powered water pumps.
182…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FI_bicentennial-dawn_Philadelphia-PA.html
A Multi-Unit Sculpture
by Louise Nevelson
Bicentennial Dawn, Philadelphia
My search in life has been for a new seeing, a new image, a new insight, a new consciousness. This search includes the object as well as the in-between places - the dawns…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FF_from-reservoir-to-art-museum_Philadelphia-PA.html
This hill, called "Faire Mount", once held a reservoir that fed Schuykill River water down through hollow logs to Philadelphia's homes and hydrants.
But years of pollution from coal mines, dairy farms and towns upstream made the water u…