The city appropriated funds for a memorial, and Hermon Atkins
MacNeil was selected for the commission. These two pylons – one
depicting sailors, the other soldiers – were intended to stand as
gates to the “Parkway Gardens.” They w
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ere moved to accommodate the construction of the Vine Street
Expressway, but still mark the entry to the park from the city. One
of the inscriptions reads: “In giving freedom to the slave, we
assure freedom to the free.”
