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Location: BRONSON PARK-SOUTH ROSE STREET AND ACADEMY STREET

City: KALAMAZOO

State: Michigan

Zip Code: 94007

Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related

Year Dedicated: 1924

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION AND CHINA RELIEF EXPEDITION

Photograph By: JOHN DESAULNIERS


ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF KALAMAZOO CITY AND COUNTY TO COMMEMORATE THE VALOR AND PATRIOTISM OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN, THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION AND THE CHINA RELIEF EXPEDITION.
THE STATUE IS CALLED THE HIKER. THERE ARE TWO STYLES BOTH INSTALLED IN NUMEROUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. BOTH STATUES ARE DEDICATED TO THE U.S. SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.


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