Women Veterans Memorial
Monument Found in Eden Park
Monumental Mystery in Eden Park may lead to a new women's memorial To read the entire article, please click on the image below or visit the link https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2025-06-09/eden-park-women-armed-forces-memorial to read the entire article.
"[The NSCDA-Ohio] are taking on a project to honor women veterans, and they believe it is the first such program in this country," a June 10, 1985, article states. It continues, citing a Mrs. Vaughan Montgomery, " 'What we are doing is an absolutely new concept as far as all the research I have done. It occurred to me that women veterans never had been honored...' "
Carolyn Koenig is the local museum properties chair for the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio. She tells WVXU, "My understanding is at that point in time the Dames wanted to really honor our female veterans, and they had done their homework and done their research, and they couldn't find anything else like it in the country, so they really wanted to be the first to do something like that."
She says the organization is interested in the idea of refreshing or reinventing the memorial.
Honoring Women Veterans on our Nation’s 250th Anniversary
Women have served in the military for 250 years, from the battlefields of the American Revolution to the deserts of Kuwait, yet their service is often unacknowledged.NSCDA-OH, in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of our nation’s founding is re-imagining the women veterans memorial in Eden Park.
Please join us in honoring our veterans by supporting this fund.
