The Civil War Memorial is a marble monument situated in the center of Monument Park in Adrian, Michigan. The monument was unveiled on July 4, 1870, to commemorate soldiers from Adrian who died in the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site in 1971 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The monument's column was originally one of six marble columns on the eastern facade of the former Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia, built in 1799. After the bank building was demolished in 1867, one of the columns was acquired by the Hon. F.C. Beaman and J. Fred Myers Esq. and donated to the monument association. It remains one of the only surviving pieces of the original bank building in Michigan.
The column rests on a sandstone octagonal pedestal, where each side features a bronze tablet inscribed with the names of 84 fallen soldiers and their regiments. The monument is complemented by four cannons, two of which were cast in 1834 at the Columbia Foundry in Georgetown, DC. These experimental cannons were donated to the association by an act of Congress in 1870.
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