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~ .,, A. Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial ~ IB] ------1""---·------1 ~ Vl B. Rep. Jim Cooper Memorial rn 1. Wesley Bolin Memorial Marker 8. Arizona Pioneer Women Memorial 15. Martin Luther King Mem rial 24. Arizona Law Enforcement K9 Memorial :; ~ C. The Childrens' Tree Memorial -...."' 2. Crime Victims Memorial 9. 4th Marine Division Memorial 16. Armenian Holocaust Memorial 25. Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes Veterans Memorial ~ ~ D. Arizona War Heroes Memorial ·-0 ~lfo.t e 3. Father Kina Statue 10. Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial 17. Desert Storm Memorial 26. Memorial ~ ~ E. Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients (1) 4. Navajo Code Talkers Memorial 11. WW I Veterans Memorial 18. Enduring Freedom Memorial 27. Arizona Peace Officer Memorial .!!? ..2 F. Lt. Frank Luke Jr. Memorial ~ 5. Bushmasters Memorial 12. Law Enforcement Memorial 19. 9-11 Memorial 28. Father Albert Braun O.F.M. Statue ElJo.t ·-:;-- G. Arizona Homicide Victims Memorial N"' 6. Arizona Workers Memorial 13. Jewish War Veterans Memorial 20. Korean War Memorial 29. American Merchant Seaman Memorial :Su H. Sen. Andy Nichols Memorial l!».t-"' 7. The 10 Commandments Memorial 14. Confederate Troops Memorial 21. USS Arizona Mast Memorial 30. Vietnam Veterans Memorial I. Senator Carl Hayden Memorial ©2013 Arizona Secretary of State's Office - Ken Bennett, Secretary of State 22. USS Arizona Anchor 31. Bill of Rights Monument J. Heritage Live Oak Memorial Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records - Museum Division 23. Ernest W. McFarland Memorial 32. WW 11 Memorial - Salute the Fallen Wall/Battleship Guns K. 200th Anniversary of U.S. Constitution Wesley Bolin Plaza The Bushmaster Memorial The insignia on the memorial is of the Wesley Bolin Plaza Marker _ 5 "Bushmaster," a ·snake entwined around a ma• chete. The memorial is dedicated to the Bushmas• The Plaza is named for Wesley Bolin who served ters, a Hispanic and Native American unit of the Ari• from 1949 to 1977 as Arizona Secretary of State. 1 zona National Guard's 158th Regimental Combat He was the first Secretary to serve a four-year term. Team. The group's lineage began in 1865 at Mari• He also served as Arizona Governor for four months copa Wells when all members were Pima Indians. beginning October 20, 1977, after Governor Raul They served as honor guard during World War I for Castro accepted a federal appointment as U.S. am• President Woodrow Wilson during the 1917 peace bassador to Argentina. Bolin died in March of 1978. talks in France. The group also saw heavy combat in Arizona Crime Victim Rights Memorial the Pacific Theater in World War II. U.S. General Arizona was among the first states to establish a Douglas MacArthur, who commanded the Southwest 2 comprehensive Crime Victims' Bill of Rights. Pacific Theater during the war, referred to the 158th County Attorney Rick Romley unveiled t~e Arizona as "the greatest fighting combat team ever deployed Crime Victims' Rights Monument on Apnl 19, 2005. for battle." The unit was retired on December 3, 1967. During the dedication U.S. Senator Jon Kyl and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon were in attendance to Arizona Workers Memorial, present attorney Steve Twist with the ~r~t "~ict.ims' El Pasaje (The Passage) Voice Award" for his commitment to Victims Rights. In 1994, the Legislature authorized the desig~, Father Francisco Kino Statue 6 creation and placement of a workers' memorial This statue was presented to Arizonans in 1967 on the Plaza. El Pasaje was dedicated on Septem• 3 by the people of the State of Sonora, Mexico .. ber 6, 1999. The dedication culminated a five-year The statue includes a time capsule to be opened in effort to erect a monument in honor of Arizona's August 22, 2235. A Jesuit Spanish mission~ry, Fa• working men and women who have suffered injury or ther or "Padre" Kino began to explore what rs now death in their workplaces. El Pasaje features three known as the American southwest in 1691. He was figures that personify the working men and women of known as the "Padre on horseback," was an explor• Arizona and the enduring promise of renewal em• er, cattleman, mapmaker, and defender of the fron• bodied in the children of working people. El Pasaje tier. He was well-respected by the Natives and the was designed, sculpted and cast by Clarke Reidy. Spanish during his 24 years in the region. Padre Ki• The 1 O Commandments Memorial no helped establish many missions, inclu~ing San This memorial was presented by the Past Presi• Xavier del Bae near Tucson. 7 dents Club of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Navajo Code Talkers Memorial #2407 in 1963. The monument was sculpted by Navajo and Arizona Pioneer Women Memorial Cowboy Artists of America member Oreland Joe. 4 This memorial was dedicated by the Daughter~ It stands to commemorate the Navajo Code Talkers of Utah in 1968. Mormons migrated from Utah in of WW II and was dedicated on February 28, 2008, 8 the mid-to-late 1800s and helped to establish Arizo• by the Navajo Code Talker Memorial Foundation. na communities and towns such as Joseph City, Me• During World War II, the Japanese repeatedly broke sa, Show Low and Springerville. With them came secret military transmissions until the deployment of strong pioneer Mormon women who not onl~ cared the Code talkers. Originally 29 Navajo Marines creat• for their families and home, but helped to build com• ed the Navajo Code with more than 450 military munities, ranch, farm and defend their property. The terms and phrases. The Code Talkers were part of memorial is dedicated to the hardships these women every U.S. Marine Pacific assault from 1942 to 1945. faced and their significant role in Arizona's history. A twin to this monument stands in Window Rock, Ariz. on the Navajo Nation. World War II Civil War 4th Marine Division Memorial Confederate Troops Memorial The Fourth Marine Division was activated August 14 The United Daughters of the Confederacy 9 16, 1943, and training at Camp Pendleton, Cali- dedicated this memorial in 1961 to honor Ari- fornia. The Division sailed from San Diego, California zona's Confederate soldiers. In 1861 and 1862 fed• and served battles at the , Marianas eral troops that were once stationed in· the territory Islands, and lwo Jima. The division was deactivated were busy defending the Union. Without a federal in 1945. military presence, attacks and raids between the Apache Tribe and Arizona settlers increased. The Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial Confederate army pushed westward into a largely This memorial was dedicated on October 20, defenseless southwest and was welcomed by these 1 0 1990, to salute Arizonans who served with 3 settlers for protection. The presence of these troops million Civilian Conservation Corps members in the also created sympathy for the Southern cause. In · 1930s. The Corps was founded during the Great 1862 Confederacy President Jefferson Davis signed Depression to provide work projects and infrastruc- a bill that made Arizona a Confederate Territory; Un- . ture to America's jobless. Some Corps project wor- · ion President Abe Lincoln signed a bill creating the thy of note include installation of the state's first tele- Arizona Territory on February 24, 1863. phone lines; roads and picnic ramadas at South Mountain Park (the mountains just south of Bolin Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Plaza); and the making and maintaining of Grand 15 The Sun Valley Caucus, a group a business- Canyon trails and rock walls along the rim in north- men and women interested in political action ern Arizona. by and for minorities, dedicated this memorial on January 9, 1984. The memorial honors Dr. Martin World War I Luther King, Jr. who was a leader in the Civil Rights Veterans Memorial Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. King was This memorial reminds us of those Arizonans born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. Some 11 who served valiantly in World War I. The Unit• of his most notable speeches and sermons include: ed States of America entered the war in 1917 on the March on Washington (1963); Nobel Peace Prize side of the Western Allies. Native Phoenician Frank Acceptance Speech (1964); and I've been to the Luke, Jr., for whom the West Valley's Luke Air Force Mountaintop (1968). He was assassinated in Mem• Base is named, was a casualty of this war. A statue phis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. stands in his honor in front of the State Capitol. On the back of the monument lists the names of more Armenian Holocaust Memorial than 300 Arizonans who died in World War I. The Armenian community of Arizona dedicat• 16 ed this memorial to expose the genocide of __,_--= __ L_a_w_E_n_f_o_r_c_e_m_e_n_t_M_e_m_o_r_i_a_l Armenians in Turkey during World War I and shortly The State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of thereafter. It is estimated that one and a half million 12 Police (F.O.P.) dedicated this memorial in Armenians died by torture, massacre, and starvation 1965. This memorial honors Arizona Police officers between 1915 and 1923. This monument of tufa who die in the line of duty. stone, a rock native to both Arizona and Armenia, has names of the survivors of the holocaust who World War II eventually found their way to settle in Arizona. Jewish War Veterans Memorial Valley of the Sun Post No. 194 dedicated the Desert Storm Memorial 13 Jewish War Veterans Memorial in May of This memorial is dedicated to Arizona's 29 1950. The women of the post erected this memorial 17 military units called to duty in Desert Storm in to honor Jewish Arizonans who served in WW 11 and 1990 and 1991. The images depict the driving of those who died in the war. Names and dates of the Iraqi invaders from Kuwait. deceased are forever remembered on the memorial. port during the attack on Pearl Harbor, , by Enduring Freedom Memorial the Japanese on December 7, 1941. This attack. In 2004, the Legislature authorized the place• brought the United States into World War II. Admiral 1 8 ment of an enduring freedom memorial ·on the Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations had the Plaza (Laws 2004, Chapter 206). The Enduring mast sent to Commander Keyes in his hometown of Freedom Memorial was dedicated on October 9, Lorian, Ohio. It was modified and used as a training 201 O. It was dedicated in honor of men and women device at the Naval Armory until 1980. The Armory from Arizona who served in the armed forces who was razed and the mast was destined for salvage have lost their lives fighting terrorism following Sep• when it was saved by naval engineer Nick Dononfrio. tember 11, 2001, in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout Mr. Dononfrio placed and ad to sell the mast and the Southwest Asia Theatre of Operation. The me• Glendale, Arizona businessman Robert Manzetti morial also symbolizes the continued gratitude and began a fundraising campaign to bring the mast to respect for those service men and women who pro• Arizona. It was purchased, refurbished and now tect our families, our friends and our Nation's free• stands proudly in the Plaza. dom in the global war on terrorism. U.S.S. Arizona Anchor Memorial Moving Memories 9-11 Memorial The anchor memorial was dedicated Decem• This memorial was dedicated on September 2 2 ber 7, 1976, by the U.S. Navy, The Arizona · 19 11, 2006, to honor the fallen Americans and Republic newspaper, Arizona school children and heroes of September 11, 2001. This memorial is others. A time capsule is part of the display and is crowned by a circle of stainless steel with stenciled scheduled to be opened December 7, 2075. The inscriptions about the terrorist attacks on America. anchor weighs in at about 10 tons. It is one of two Now known as Patriot's Day, every September 11 at anchors that were used on the U.S.S. Arizona battle• noon, sunlight passes through this monument to ship. The other anchor stands on the tour boat land• highlight a piece of the World Trade Center found at ing at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Har~or, Ground Zero. On sunny days light shines through Hawaii. The anchor displayed on the Plaza was m the inscriptions so that they can be read and reflect• Navy storage until 1971 until it was discovered by ed upon. Captain G.G. Dunn. The next year it was brought it Korean War Memorial Arizona. A plaque on the memorial gives the names of the sailors and Marines who died when the ship The Korean War Memorial was dedicated on was attacked. The anchor is the focal point of a cere• 2 0 November 12, 1990, to honor Arizona's Kore• mony each December 7, to honor those fallen and an War veterans who served and died in the war. honor the remaining few Pearl Harbor survivors. The lasted three years from 1950 to 1953.and was fought against Communist forces on the Korea~ . Ernest W. McFarland Memorial Peninsula in East Asia. The front of the memorial 1s This memorial honors the only person to have engraved with the Great Seal of the State of Arizona. 2 3 served in the highest office of three branches The back has a memorial inscription. The bronze bell of Arizona government. McFarland served as a U.S. in the center was cast in Korea and weights about Senator from Arizona, Arizona governor, and Arizo• two tons. It is "temple" quality, suitable for ringing on na Supreme Court chief justice. He died in Phoenix solemn occasions. The bell is rung by striking it with in 1984. a log suspended from chains. The trees in the me• morial are Acacia, indigenous to both Arizona and Arizona Law Enforcement K9 Memorial Korea. Dedicated April 7, 2006 by the Arizona Law 2 4 Enforcement Canine Association. The memo• U.S.S. Arizona Mast rial features a bronze, life-size statue of a German The signal mast from the U.S.S. Arizona was Shepherd. When dedicated, 15 Arizona police dogs 21 dedicated on December 7, 1990. Called the that had died in the line of duty were listed on the "pig tail" mast, it was the highest point on the s~iP: memorial. More information about this memorial can The U.S.S. Arizona was attacked and sunk while m be found at www.azk9memorial.net. was a Japanese prisoner of war for 40 months in the Battle of the Bulge/ Ardennes Philippines. In 1949 he came to Arizona and assist• Veterans Memorial ed the poor in McNary, Parker, and St. John's Indian In 2006 SB 1112 (Laws 2006, Chapter 314) Mission; was a teacher at Phoenix's St. Mary's High 2 5 authorized the placement of this memorial on School; and helped build Sacred Heart Church in the Plaza. The Battle of the Bulge lasted 43 days Phoenix. There are three stones with Father Albert's from December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945, in statue, each have a plaque: one from Yarnell, Ariz.; Ardennes, Belgium. The offensive was considered another from the Philippines; and the last from the the last major German offensive on the western front Mescalero Apache Reservation. Architect: Robert during World War II. The "bulge" refers to the exten• Gomez; Sculptor: Carlos Ayala; Landscape Archi• sion of the German lines, which formed a growing tect: Ruben L. Valenzuela. '1 arc into allied controlled territory. Though this often• / sive was unsuccessful for Germany, it depleted an American Merchant Seaman Memorial ) enormous amount of resources for both Allied and During times of national crisis, the Merchant German forces. The Battle of the Bulge is consid• 2 9 Marines have rallied to battle behind enemy ered the largest land battle the Army has fought in mines, submarines and planes while building a the history of the United States. Casualty estimates "bridge of steel" for supplies across the seas to U.S. from the battle vary with U.S. casualties estimated at troops and its allies. 80,987 with British losses at 1,400. ·Vietnam Veteran War Memorial Purple Heart Memorial The memorial was dedicated November 9, The memorial honors combat veterans who 3 0 2005. It consists of 10 columns of black gran• 2 6 have been wounded while defending the Unit• ite engraved with the names of Arizonans killed or ed States. More than 40,000 Arizonans have been reported missing in action in Vietnam. The flagpole wounded since World War I. The Military Order of base is identical to that of the National Vietnam Vet• the Purple Heart raised funds for the memorial that erans' Memorial in Washington D.C. Jasper D'Am• was dedicated June 1999. ' brosi nationally acclaimed bronze artist of Tempe, Ariz. created the "Fallen Warrior" sculpture. It por• Arizona Peace Officers Memoria I · trays young soldiers as war's victims as much as This memorial was dedicated on May 20, war's heroes. 2 7 1988. The statue by sculptor Wes Chapman is of an 11-foot Peace Officer paying homage to all The Bill of Rights Monument Arizona law enforcement officers killed in the line of The monument is the first of its kind in the duty. The model for the sculpture was Gordon Selby, 3 1 nation. It was designed by Kincannon Studios veteran of the Phoenix Police Department and the known for its unique stonework and was initiated by Department of Public Safety. It was created under MyBillofRights.org. The monument consists of 10 House Bill 2486, introduced by Representative Jim limestone monoliths ranging from seven to eight and ;'\ Skelly in 1986. The base displays names of officers a half feet tall. Each features the full text of one of I killed in the line of duty since 1863, the year Arizona the first 1 O amendments to the U.S. Constitution. became a territory. Police lodges and other law en• ) The monument was dedicated on the 221st anniver• forcement agencies are responsible for the upkeep sary of ratification of the Bill of Rights, December 15, of the memorial and the adding of names of the fall- 2012. Gov. , Phoenix Mayor Greg Stan• en in a ceremony each year. ton and Congresswoman-elect Kyrsten Sinema who sponsored the authorizing resolution as a state legis• Father Albert Braun O.F.M. Statue lator were in attendance. The monument is also an Born September 5, 1889; Died March 6, 1983 Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, given designa• 2 8 - Father Albert was a missionary and teacher tion by the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission. to Arizona's Native American tribes and the New Support for the project came from Newman's Own Mexico Mescalero Apaches. In World War I and Foundation, the Arizona Community Foundation and World War II he served as an Army chaplain. He Sundt Construction was the project manager. The received the Purple Heart and two Silver Stars and cost for the monument was $401,512. World War II Memorial - Battleship Guns Capitol Grounds This memorial honors the Arizona fallen of Memorials & Markers 3 2 WW II with battleship guns as two "bookends" that represent the beginning (attack on Pearl Harbor) and end (Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Victims of Domestic Violence Missoun) of the war. , Memorial Bench This bench is a place to rest, reflect and re• But it is not the guns are not the main focus of this A member those whose lives have been altered memorial, rather it is the Arizonans who who gave by domestic violence. the ultimate sacrifice in WW II. Between the two guns, pylons symbolically represent the silhouette Representative Jim Cooper Memorial l outline of the structural support of the U.S.S. Jim Cooper, a retired dairy farmer, was elected I Arizona. The pylons provide the frame for nine Bto the Arizona House of Representatives in I commemoratives that represent the nine minutes it 1968. He served nine terms in the House and retired • took for the U.S.S. Arizona to sink when the in 1986. He served and represented Mesa in District Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Name plates of 29. He was the chairman of the House Education Arizona's WW II fallen are displayed as a reminder Committee from 1977 to 1986, and was also a mem• of our loss of family members and friends. ber of the following committees: Agriculture, Health This monument was spearheaded by an effort of and Aging, and Ways and Means. In 1984 Cooper Secretary of State Ken Bennett (2009-present) to led the way to pass a bill to raise the legal drinking bring rusting guns that were to be auctioned for age from 19 to 21. Upon retirement the House of scrap from the USS Arizona and USS Missouri bat- Representatives presented Cooper with "The Learn- tleships. To help collect private donations the Salute· · ing Tree" which he planted on the west lawn of the the Fallen Committee was formed and partnered House building. with Phoenix Rotary 100. The guns were saved and were shipped to Phoenix by way of a generous do• The Children's Tree Memorial nation from BNSF Railway. In the spring of 2012 This tree is dedicated to the memory of the val• they arrived to be refurbished and corporate spon• C iant young spirits who lost their lives at the Al• sors helped bring the project to completion. Ground• fred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in breaking was on December 7, 2012, with the dedica• Oklahoma City. A memorial lists the children who tion on December 7, 2013. lost their lives when the building was bombed. State Seal (amphitheater) Arizona War Heroes Memorial In the center of the Plaza is the Great State Seal of Placed near the American, Arizona, and POWs/ the State of Arizona. The official state seal was ap• DMIA flags on the Capitol Mall, this memorial is · proved by Article 22, Section 20, of the Arizona Con• dedicated to Arizona's war heroes. stitution. The state's key enterprises are symbolized on the face of the seal. In the background is a range Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients of mountains with the sun rising behind the peaks. At This monument lists those Arizonans who have the right side of the range of mountains there is a Ereceived the Congressional Medal of Honor. The storage reservoir and a dam, below which, in the Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in ac• middle distance, are irrigated fields and orchards tion against an enemy force which can be bestowed reaching into the foreground with grazing cattle to upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the right. To the left, the middle distance depicts a the United States. It is generally presented to its re• mountainside with a quartz mill. In the foreground is cipient by the President of the United States of a miner with a pick and shovel. Above this is the America in the name of Congress. motto "Ditat Deus," meaning God enriches. In a cir• cular band surrounding the seal is inscribed "Great Memorial Lt. Frank Luke Jr. Statue Seal of the State of Arizona" and the year of admis• America's second ranking ace in World War I, sion to the Union, 1912. F Frank Luke embodied the reckless and undisci- plined image of a fighter pilot of the time. One of nine Herita e Live Oak Memorial children of German immigrants, Luke was born in This mighty oak was and marker were dedicated Phoenix in May 1897. He died engage in battle with by the Phoenix Scottish Rite of Freemasonry on German forces September 29, 1918. Arizona's Luke October 31, 1987 to commemorate the Bicentennial Air Force Base is named in his honor. of the U.S. Constitution. Arizona Homicide Victims Memorial 200th Anniversary of the . Located on the front lawn of the Arizona State United States Constitution Marker GSenate is a memorial dedicated Arizona's homi• This monument commemorates the 200 anni• cide victims. A bench to reflect is near the memorial versary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. and the names of those lost are engraved in stone It was dedicated by the Arizona Commission on the • and surround the monument. Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution on May 6, 1987. Senator Andy Nichols Memorial Points of Interest 5 HSenator Andy Nichols died April 19, 2001, after collapsing at his desk in his Senate office. Dr. Winged Victory/Copper Dome Nichols, who was 64, was director of the University When visiting the state Capitol in Phoenix everyone of Arizona College of Medicine's Rural Health Office asks, just who or what is on the top of the Copper and a professor of Family and Community Medicine. Dome? The white statue on the dome has been re• In 1993 he was elected to the House of Representa• ferred to as the Goddess of Liberty, Statue of Jus• tives as a Democrat and served through 2000. When tice, Madame de Vaunte, and more recently, Winged he died it was first year in the Senate, where he was Victory. The name Winged Victory has evolved be• a member of the Appropriations Committee and vice cause of her resemblance to the Greek statue of the chairman of the Health and Banking and Insurance same name. The only noticeable difference is Arizo• committees. He received his medical degree from na's statue has both arms intact and a head. Her Stanford (class of 1964) and a master's in public right hand holds the torch of liberty above her head, health from Harvard. and the left hand presents the wreath of victory. Winged Victory is a zinc statue that was cast in Ohio Senator Carl Hayden Memorial and purchased by the Arizona Territory for $160 in Carl Trumbull Hayden, a U.S. representative and 1898. When the Capitol was completed in 1900, I senator from Arizona, was born in Hayden's Ferry Winged Victory was placed atop the dome. She also (now Tempe), Arizona. Educated at Stanford Univer• serves as a weather vane that rotates a full 360 de• sity, Hayden worked in the family flour-milling busi• grees. A lesser known fact about the "Copper Dome" ness and served as sheriff of Maricopa County. He is that it wasn't always made of copper but painted to was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of look like copper. When the Capitol was restored in Representatives when Arizona became a state in the 1970s, the mining industry donated more than 15 1912; he remained in the House until 1927, when he tons of copper to create the copper dome. ' began the first of seven terms in the U.S. Senate. He was floor manager of the bill that established the The State Capitol Grand Canyon National Park, and he sponsored the 1 Groundbreaking for the Capitol building (now the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women Capitol Museum) began on February 16, 1899, with· the right to vote. As chairman of the Senate Appro• construction completed on August 17, 1900. The priations Committee from 1955 to 1969, Hayden won construction incorporated Malapai rock from Camel• praise from members of both parties for being a back Mountain in the foundation, granite from South master of compromise. He also served as president Mountain in the first floor, and tufa stone from Ya• pro tempore from 1957 to 1969. Hayden retired to vapai County on the other floors. Additions to the his home in Tempe, Arizona, in 1969 after serving an building were made in 1919 and 1938. The tall tower unprecedented 56 consecutive years in Congress. you see behind the Capitol dome is called the West He died in 1972 in Mesa, Arizona. Wing of the Capitol, or the Executive Tower that was completed in 1974.