Little monuments, big secrets: Jersey City's hidden relics

In September 2001, Jersey City lost 38 souls. Thirteen years later, a monument with their names was unveiled in Liberty State Park, but no one could recall why these names are etched in the cliff. Underneath a slab of metal, three smaller monuments unearthed Jersey City's history before 9/11. One, a bronze figure guarded by a black granite stele, recalled the rescue workers from that day. Another, erected in 1908, was dedicated to the Japanese immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island and settled in Jersey City. The third, a cryptic list of names in traditional Japanese script, was a chilling reminder of Jersey City's forgotten past, names missing from the Ellis Island archives. Today, these three monuments, frequently overlooked, share a patch of grass with an enormous steel letter ‘A’, constructed at a cost of 5 million dollars from the World Trade Center debris.

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