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The Soldiers Monument at Lenox College
The Soldiers Monument on the campus of the former Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, was dedicated by a grateful community to the young students and local citizens who died in the Civil War. The monument was erected shortly after the war in November 1865 and, thus, was one of the first erected following the war. Names of area volunteers who gave their lives, including 21st Iowa Infantry Regiment soldiers, are inscribed on the obelisk.
Lenox College operated from 1859 through 1944. You may visit the old Lenox College campus in Hopkinton today. It is the home and museum of the Delaware County Historical Society.
A stroll around the campus in the quiet town still evokes a time when our young men, students, teachers, farmers, and merchants from Iowa dropped what they doing and marched off to save the world's only successful democracy from disintegrating and to banish, forever, the institution of slavery.
"Old Main" still stands today on the campus grounds
The photos here were from postcards from ca. 1908
© 2004 Douglas M. Slauson