Stone memorializing William Henry Harrison
Item
- Legacies Classification
- Memorial Type
- Memorial Context
- Memorialized Subject
- Title
- Background and Context
- Physical Description
- Memorial Inscription
- Creator/Participating Person(s)
- Date created, installed or dedicated
- Historical Period
- Campus Location
- Location: Institution, City, State
- Wikidata
- Learn More About this Subject
-
Memorial Object
-
Plaque/Marker
-
Harrison, William Henry
-
Stone memorializing William Henry Harrison
-
The “Walk of Fame” was created in 1929 by then president Hamilton Holt to honor significant historical figures. The memorial is located in the center of campus around Mills Lawn.
This stone commemorates William Henry Harrison, the 9th U.S. president, who owned enslaved persons and facilitated the displacement of Native Americans from their ancestral lands as a military officer during conflict initiated by the U.S. government in the early nineteenth century.
The stone was donated to Rollins College by Judge Alfred K. Nippert in January of 1937. According to Nippert, the stone was claimed from the property of Harrison's North Bend, OH homestead, where he resided during the 1840 presidential election and which burned to the ground in 1858. The stone still exhibits signs of being burned.
-
Hard stone, 1 foot long x 8 inches wide. Engraved with very faint markings.
-
WILLIAM HENRY
HARRISON
NORTH BEND
-
Nippert, Alfred K.
-
Holt, Hamilton
-
1937
-
Holt Brown Book, Rollins College Archives and Special Collections, Olin Library, Winter Park, FL.
-
Zhang, Wenxian, et al. Walk of Fame: A Rollins Legacy. Winter Park, FL: Rollins College, 2005."
Position: 1036 (73 views)