New York Monument in Bayview Park.
TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / November 11, 1030
1930 Eighteen prominent New Yorkers joined by Key West Mayor Leslie A. Curry dedicated the monument in Bayview Park to the New York soldiers that died in Key West during the Civil War. The monument has the names of the 177 men who died here plus the inscription “Erected by the State of New York in memory of the men of the Ninetieth and Ninety-first volunteer regiments of infantry who perished here, mainly of yellow fever, in 1862.”
[livemarket market_name="KONK Life LiveMarket" limit=3 category=“” show_signup=0 show_more=0] 1930 Eighteen prominent New Yorkers joined by Key West Mayor Leslie A. Curry dedicated the monument in Bayview Park to the New York soldiers that died in Key West during the Civil War. The monument has the names of the 177 men who died here plus the inscription “Erected by the State of New York in memory of the men of the Ninetieth and Ninety-first volunteer regiments of infantry who perished here, mainly of yellow fever, in 1862.”
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