Welcome to Ipswich Arch

This is the second memorial arch. The first, designed by Earl R. Perrin with soldiers painted on its pillars, spanned Main Street, was moved across US 12 in 1922 and was soon wrecked by a storm. The American Legion and Lions Club hired the stonemason C. J. Madison to build a reinforced stone replacement out of a collection: Badlands calcite from Parmley's own cabinet, a petrified bone, a stone said to come from Mexico's Pyramid of the Sun, a meteorite said to be from Biela's comet, and Pacific stones Loren Parmley gathered during the war.

What the plaque says

This pillar of The Memorial Arch of Ipswich is erected as a lasting tribute to the vision, foresight and tireless energy of Joseph W. Parmley and his co-workers who in 1912 founded the greatest of our trans- continental highways, the Yellowstone Trail. The first portion of the Yellowstone Trail was built from Ipswich, its home, east to Aberdeen. From that beginning this great highway grew to span our nation from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound. This pillar of The Memorial Arch of Ipswich is erected in honor of the valiant men of the community of Ipswich who answered our country's call to arms in the World War 1917-1918 and as an everlasting monument to those who so nobly made the supreme sacrifice William C. Dickerson · Carl Neis Clarence W. Elstad · Benjamin J. Picton Clifford Evans · Walter L. Stanard Einer Jorgenson · Harry A. Stroup William Keppler · Andrew Schaurer Adolph Forkel · Matt Kirzinger

Where it stands

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