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UER Forum > Archived US: South > monumental find (Viewed 374 times)
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monumental find
< on 6/29/2007 10:21 AM >
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This monument is one of the stranger things I came across in my New Orleans trip. It's difficult to describe how out in the middle of nowhere it was. To the best of my recollection it's here. It was on a vacant lot with two abandoned cars and scattered trash, between two crooked flagpoles without flags. Despite this, the paint on the monument itself was fresh; someone had come out and restored the lettering reasonably recently.

The monument is a birthplace monument to General Beauregard, a significant figure in Louisiana history, and the namesake of the high school I posted yesterday. The bottom tier of the monument reads "Contreras Plantation" which was indeed his birthplace. Each tier represents either an ancestor, spouse or descendant up to the top tier, which marks the day he died. It's close to eight feet wide at the base, about two feet wide at the top, and about six feet tall. It's made of fairly rough concrete, painted white. I've never seen a monument quite like it.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 1 on 6/29/2007 11:34 AM >
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Pretty unique find. Amazing where stuff like this is hidden.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 2 on 6/29/2007 12:51 PM >
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That is a neat find! Someone thought highly of him.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 3 on 6/29/2007 12:56 PM >
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Thats interesting. I've never seen one done like that either.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 4 on 6/29/2007 1:32 PM >
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Nice find! Props for the thread title too.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 5 on 6/29/2007 3:54 PM >
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Such a distinctly Southern monument - Honoring his kinship ties and the history of that plantation at the same time, all in the monument for a Civil War general.

Faulkner would have designed something like that.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 6 on 6/29/2007 5:15 PM >
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Posted by scotteeyo
Nice find! Props for the thread title too.


yeah that was catchy.


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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 7 on 6/29/2007 5:26 PM >
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How big is it? Its hard to tell proportions in pictures sometimes.


Also, what did the bottom step say?


I agree, that is an awesome find.
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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 8 on 6/29/2007 6:38 PM >
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The bottom tier of the monument reads "Contreras Plantation" which was indeed his birthplace.


Yeah, I looked at that forever before I reread it.


It's close to eight feet wide at the base, about two feet wide at the top, and about six feet tall.


I like it. Just big enough to be obnoxious and narcissistic.

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Re: monumental find
<Reply # 9 on 6/30/2007 1:15 AM >
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DOh! I really should start reading stuff, and not just look at the pictures.

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