Tanks Memorial Stadium Opening Day Nov. 25, 1926

Ironton Tanks 47, Cleveland Indians 0

November 30, 1930, was a classic Indian summer day in southern Ohio. Balmy, shirt-sleeve temperatures greeted the 10,000 football fans who flocked into old Redland Field in Cincinnati to watch the upstart, small-town Ironton Tanks ...

Ironton - Lawrence County Memorial Day Parade

Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originally ...

Memorial Day

Historic New York

Historic New York

Memorial Day

On May 5, 1866, the residents of Waterloo held the first complete,

community-wide observance of Memorial Day. They dedicated the entire day to honoring the Civil War dead in a solemn and ...

Confederate Memorial Day in Macon

On Thursday, April 26, 1866, the graves of Confederate soldiers in Rose Hill Cemetery and in the cemetery at 7th and Cherry Streets were decorated with flowers by the members of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, organized in March 1866 with ...

Logan’s Memorial Day Order

General Orders, No. 11, Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Washington D.C. May 5, 1868.

I. The 30th day of May, 1869, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in ...

The First Memorial Day

Historic New York

Memorial Day

On May 5, 1866, the residents of Waterloo held the first complete,

community-wide observance of Memorial Day. They dedicated the entire day to honoring the Civil War dead in a solemn and patriotic manner. Throughout the village, flags, ...

Confederate Memorial Day

First Decoration, or Memorial Day, was observed in Kingston in late April of 1865, and has been a continuous observance here since that day, the only such record held by any community in this Nation. The first Memorial, or Decoration ...

Memorial Day Order

General Orders No. 11

Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic

Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868

I. The 30th day of May, 1868 is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died ...

Memorial Day Order

General Orders, No. 11.

Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868

I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died ...

Memorial Day May 29, 1989

(Tablet One)

The Governor of the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts Michael S. Dukakis, and

descendents of the African-American Civil

War Volunteers of the 54th and 55th Infantry

Regiments and the 5th Cavalry Regiment of

Massachusetts, accompanied by distinguished

citizens of the Commonwealth, came on this day

to Beaufort National ...