Statue Ladies
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Feb 14, 2025
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Statue Ladies, Margaret L. Tenpas, Pennsylvania history, Erie, Civil War, Perry Square, monument
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"Erie Statue Has Stormy Birth." So read a headline in the Erie Dispatch Herald on September 8, 1946. The statue in question was erected in 1873 to honor veterans of the Civil War and still stands today near the gazebo in Erie's Perry Square.
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