Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park
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Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park is an historic property located in Clermont, Iowa
, United States
. The statue was erected in 1902, and the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2000. It is also referred to as the Bissell Statue after the artist who created it, George E. Bissell. The statue is a duplicate of a statue of Lincoln that was erected in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following inscription is on the statue's granite
base: “Erected in 1902 in memory of soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, 1861-1865.”
Clermont, Iowa
Clermont is a city in Fayette County, Iowa, United States. The population was 716 at the 2000 census. Clermont is home to Montauk, the mansion of former Iowa governor William Larrabee, along with much historic architecture...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The statue was erected in 1902, and the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2000. It is also referred to as the Bissell Statue after the artist who created it, George E. Bissell. The statue is a duplicate of a statue of Lincoln that was erected in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following inscription is on the statue's granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
base: “Erected in 1902 in memory of soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, 1861-1865.”