Generally Speaking: Brooklyn Society to salute fallen prison ship martyrs
This coming Saturday morning at 10 a.m., members of the Society of Old Brooklynites, elected officials, historians and community leaders will muster at the base of the 149-foot Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, on the hilltop in Fort Greene Park for the society’s 106th annual memorial tribute.
In a chamber below the towering monument are the actual remains of 11,500 patriots from the American Revolutionary War, making this site arguably the nation’s largest burial ground for America’s first freedom fighters and POWs.
The huge Stanford White-designed Doric column was the tallest free-standing pillar in the world when it was dedicated in 1908 by President William Howard Taft. This event is being held in conjunction with the 238th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn.
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