List of Riley County Monuments and Memorials

1. Community Building (Humboldt and Fourth Street)
2. Eagle Monument (Riley County Courthouse)
3. Riley County Veterans Monument (Riley County Court House)
4. Peace Memorial Auditorium (City Hall)
5a. Pearce & Keller Memorials (City Park)

5b. Union Soldier and Spanish-American War Monuments (City Park)
6. Manhattan High School Memorial Wall (High School Alumni Conference Room)
7. Union Soldiers Arch (Sunset Cemetery)
8. Defenders of the Union Monument (Sunset Cemetery)
9. Memorial Day Platform, Union Soldiers Monument and Flag Pole – Sons of Union Veterans (Sunset Cemetery)
10. The Gold Star Mothers' Memorial (Sunset Cemetery)
11. Riley County Sunset Memorial and Platform (Sunset Cemetery)
12. Memorial Stadium (KSU)
13. Vietnam War Plaque (K-State Student Union second floor)
14. World War I Memorial and rotating memorial displays - General Richard B Myers Hall (KSU)
15. Danforth and All Faiths Chapels (WWII and Korea) (KSU)
16. World War II Memorial (KSU)
17. Vietnam Veterans Memorial (KSU)
18. William Grimm Memorial - Operation Desert Storm (KSU)

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Veterans Memorials/Monuments by Category or War

General or All Wars

Eagle Monument (Riley County Courthouse)

Riley County Veterans Monument (Riley County Courthouse)

American Legion War Memorial and Platform (Sunset Cemetery)


Civil War

Union Soldier Monument (City Park)

Union Soldiers’ Arch (Sunset Cemetery)

Defenders of the Union Monument (Sunset Cemetery)

Memorial Day Platform and Flag Pole –Sons of Union Veterans (Sunset Cemetery)

Union Soldiers’ Monument (Sunset Cemetery)


Spanish American War

Spanish-American War Monument (City Park)


World War I

Community Building (Humboldt and Fourth Street)

Pearce & Keller Memorials (City Park)

Memorial Stadium (KSU)

World War I Memorial Wall (KSU, General Richard B. Myers Hall)


World War II

World War II Memorial (KSU)

Peace Memorial Auditorium (City Hall)


Vietnam

Vietnam War Plaque (K-State Student Union second floor)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (KSU)


Multiple Conflicts

Danforth and All Faiths Chapels (WWII and Korea) (KSU)

Gold Star Mothers’ Memorial (WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam) (Sunset Cemetery)

American Legion Memorial to the Boys of Riley County (Sunset Cemetery)

Manhattan High School Memorial Wall (WWI, WWII, Vietnam) (West Campus)


Individual Monuments

Rotating memorial exhibits (KSU, General Richard B. Myers Hall)

William Grimm Memorial (Operation Desert Storm) (KSU)


 



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