Ahherald.com reports the Memoria Project has found a home at Highlands Veterans Park for its two 13-foot high white marble columns shaped like the former World Trade Center building.
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Livingston’s 911 Memorial Garden was dedicated on Sept. 14, 2003. Seven sides of the octagonal-shaped garden are a memorial to the seven Livingston residents who died at the World Trade Center. the eighth side represents others who died that day.
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A four foot high granite monument at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center has the words: “In honor of the men and women of the Cleveland Center and those aboard Flight 93 for their heroic actions on September 11, 2001.” The monument is surrounded by a flagpole, flowers and granite benches. The center in Oberlin, Ohio, is about 25 miles west of Cleveland. The Center has monitored Flight 93 when it was hijacked over Ohio. The memorial was dedicated in 2002.
Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center
Denver plans to use a small World Trade Center beam in a memorial at the City and County Building.
The California State Fair Memorial Plaza in Sacramento is the biggest 911 memorial in the country outside of the directly hit areas.
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Ivy Tech College South Bend built a memorial in St. Patrick Park. The beam is 4′ 400 pounds is incorporated into a “Standing Tall” Memorial at the park on Laurel Road, north of Auten, in South Bend with 293 acres with wooded trails, ponds and St. Joseph River frontage Phone - 574/277-4828
Hutchinson, Kansas, Fireighters Local reports Hutchinson received a Four Foot Section of “I- beam” from the World Trade Center disaster. It was placed in our public works building until a permanent memorial could be built. Brothers and Sisters of Local 179 felt the temporary housing would show greater respect if it was in our control. IAFF Local 179 brother Jamie Carol, spearheaded a committee to have it moved to Station 1. This task was completed in time for our 2003 9/11-memorial service, during the service it was unveiled at it’s temporary memorial site.
The Star Ledger reports two stainless steel walls 200 feet long and 30 feet high are to be located at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. The walls set 16 feet across will draw attention to the void of the World Trade Center. The name of each New Jersey resident killed in the attack is to be engraved. New York architect Frederic Schwartz, was chosen as the state’s Sept. 11 memorial from among 320 entries in a nationwide competition (an earlier contest was thrown out for lack of entries). New Jersey has long listed 691 residents among the dead in the 9/11 attacks.
Frederick Schwartz Architects Page (many great images)
Dodge City has a 4 foot 1,200 pound section of steel placed under the U.S. Flag and between two 110 inch replicas of the twin towers in twin pools at the Liberty Garden in Wright Park.
Thebatt.com reports a steel structural beam from the World Trade Center is at the George (I) Bush Presidential Library Museum in preparation for its eventual relocation to Veterans Memorial Park in College Station, Texas. (more…)
Weirton.com reports Weirton Steel has salvaged three beams from WTC scrap for a memorial at the Brooke-Hancock (counties) Veterans Memorial Park in Weirton. One beam rests horizontally and behind it, two others are set vertically to symbolize the Twin Towers. The beams join various military artifacts displayed at the park including an anchor, helicopter, cannon and tank among other hardware. Weirton Steel eventually will place a memorial plaque at the site of the beams.
PBA Local 138 notes Skyland Park Memorial features an actual beam recovered from the World Trade Center. The monument has a pentagonal shaped granite base.
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An excellent Los Angeles Times article on the memorials notes this memorial in Corinth, Texas: (more…)
An excellent 2003 article in the Los Angeles Times on what happened to the WTC steel notes this development in Palos Hills, Illinois:
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An excellent Los Angeles Times article on the fate of World Trade Center steel notes this design in Albuqurque, NM: (more…)