The 28th Division Infantry
This place of remembrance honors 28th Division veterans of World Wars I and II. The grounds of the Shrine and the park surrounding it once belonged to the estate of Colonel Theodore Davis Boal (1867-1938).
Convinced that the United States would eventually give up its neutral position and enter World War I, Boal established the eastern part of his estate as a cavalry training camp in 1916. He began to enlist volunteers to train as members of a horse-mounted machine gun troop, the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, State College. It eventually became Company A of the 107th Machine Gun Battalion of the 28th Infantry Division.
"They died in France for liberty."
Marker is on Boal Avenue (U.S. 322) just north of Boalsburg Pike, on the right when traveling east.
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