911 Memorials List

The memorial planned for the Staten Island Fresh Kills site where World Trade Center debris was sorted is perhaps even more controversial than the Manhattan site as family members have argued over remains that are there. The winning design in a contest was Field Operations of New York and Philadelphia. The design calls for a meadow on an earth works at the crest of a hill (the landfill was closed just before the hill exceeded the New York City physical highpoint of 420 feet at Todt Hill on Staten Island — which in itself is the highest point on the Altantic Coast south of Maine). The design will have an almost crop circles appearance.
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Pepperdine University’s Heroes Garden is situated on a bluff nearly 800 feet above the Pacific in Malibu. The garden’s plaque reads:
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San Ramon has renaned Alta Mesa Park to Memorial Park on the bluff above San Ramon Valley Boulevard — prominent location for the lighted memorial flag poles along with a commemorative plaque, recognizing the victims and heroes of September 11th, along with Thomas Burnett, San Ramon resident, and hero of Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania.
San Ramon Page
Living Memorial Page

The McCourt Memorial Garden on the Connecticut College Campus near the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London honors Ruth and four-year old Juliana McCourt were aboard the United Airline flight that struck the World Trade Center. Ruth’s brother was one of the people who worked in the World Trade Center, he escaped that day. However, Ruth and Juliana were flying to L.A. to meet a friend who was on another flight, American Flight 11, which crashed into the other tower.

Official Site
Living Memorials Entry

The Joel Barlow High School Monument in Redding, Connecticut honors alumni Peter Hansen who was killed on 9/11. It consists of two stone posts in the woods.
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The September 11 Memorial Grove has some of the slickest websites of the various memorials. The concept commemorates the events of September 11, 2001 and the city’s efforts to restore the natural beauty of the Anacostia River and revitalize the surrounding neighborhood by celebrating nature, inviting and rewarding exploration and promoting efforts to create and maintain a healthy environment. The design engages the wetland as part of the experience of the island by creating a path that weaves through several distinct natural settings, ultimately connecting to the island’s greater pathway system. It is to be completed by 2006.
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Woods Hole, Massachusetts, has the “Nellie Point 911 Memorial” at Nobska Point at Fay St. It honors Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey who was kileld on Sept. 11.
Living Memorial Entry

The Beaumont Botanical Garden consists of a Pentagon shaped garden approximately 50 feet by 50 feet, enclosed by a black wrought iron fence with brick columns eight feet high. Concrete walkway six feet wide within the fence in the pentagon shape. Black granite benches along the walks. Three flagpoles - American Flag, Texas Flag, and City of Beaumont Flag. A pair of massive bronze eagles guard the entrance. Granite twin towers six feet tall, and seven additional granite towers of various colors, sizes and shapes to symbolize the fallen buildings and thousands of lives lost. Granite towers in the center of the memorial are on a raised, pentagon shape brick platform, capped with granite. Between the walkway and center feature are seasonal planting of red, white, and blue flowers. Evergreen shrubs are planted around the outer perimeter of the pentagon.

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Living Memorials Entry

Alexandria’s memorial is the expansive Wilton Woods Memorial Garden which was dedicated in 2002.
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The Forest Service funded living memorials (e.g., trees/plants) at more than 100 places across the United States. It’s a great resource to identify memorials. However you should be advised that not all memorials list in their database appear to be active memorials.

Livingmemorialsproject.net

Yonkers American Patriot Garden is in the Sculpture Meadows of Yonkers Esplanade Park on the Hudson River and was dedicated in 2003. The WTC could be seen from this vantage. The poetry in three granite plaques focuses on the themes of remembrance, renewal and hope. Lee Weintraub who designed the garden.
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Brooklyn’s Quincy Street Garden in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood has a monument to the 12 black New York City firefighters who died in the World Trade Center attacks. The monument features a hook-and-ladder emblem, a large laminated flag and a bronze plaque with the names of the firefighters.
Living Memorial Entry

Amtrak employees in the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia erected a memorial in October 2001 using WTC steel. The memorial is made up of photographs taken at Ground Zero as well as a dented rescue worker’s hard hat and some twisted steel beams. It stands 15 feet tall.

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United States Steel employees at the Minntac plant (largest taconite plant in world) in Mt. Iron (population 2,000) dedicated a memorial at the entrance to the plant in 2002 which includes two pieces of WTC steel.
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The Texas Cemetery 911 Memorial in Austin was designed by architect Bob Ogorzaly of O’Connell Robertson and Associates of Austin and paid for with private funds. It features two beams recovered from ground zero at the World Trade Center. The steel beams are each at least 8 feet long and weigh about 1,400 pounds.