Dedication Saturday, September 28, 2013 - Photo by Lenny Lepola |
||||||||
Major General William
S. Rosecrans |
||||||||
Birdseye View by Carl Staub . . . . click to enlarge | ||||||||
|
||||||||
100% of the funds
for Alan Cottrill to sculpt the statue have been raised and all money needed to move the sculpture to Sunbury and attach it to the
boulder. |
||||||||
Joe and Pat Toole Joined 3-Star
Donors |
||||||||
|
||||||||
Join the Trail to
the General |
||||||||
20 ton glacial erratic will be
the base for the General William Stark Rosecrans Statue.
Commemorative bricks will be placed in the walk. |
||||||||
Ohio Historical Marker Arrives in Sunbury |
||||||||
On June 17, 2013,
Sunbury Street Crew members under the leadership of Chester Wolfe took
the 182 pound sign off the truck and unpacked it for proofing. The men
will install it on the square before the Dedication in September. |
||||||||
Board of Delaware County Commissioners Awarded $20,000 to the Statue Fund |
* | |||||||
January 2013 |
||||||||
Big Walnut School Students Collected | ||||||||
Lincolns for Rosecrans |
||||||||
Something to crow about. . . . . | ||||||||
Barn Yard & Bake Sale
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
Sunbury / Big Walnut Area
Chamber of Commerce |
||||||||
Groundbreaking for the
Statue |
||||||||
Moving Boulder Base for
Statue to Temporary Site |
||||||||
Rosecrans is the only
major general from the Civil War without a statue. He was
instrumental in seeing that statues were erected for others but
somehow he was overlooked by his peers. |
||||||||
General
Rosecrans Elementary School is the
first conquest in bringing the General into the glory which would
surely have been his had the times been different. Big Walnut
Board of Education voted on October 12, 2009, to name the new
elementary school after the General. |
||||||||
*
Statue Committee Thanking
County Commissioners at the Eastern Delaware Republicans Club Meeting,
January 10th |
||||||||
Artist's
Drawing of the Statue Read About the Statue in the News Return to Rosecrans Home Page Return to Big Walnut History Home Page |
||||||||