LocationSoutheast corner of North Oak Trafficway & N.E. Vivion Rd. |
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Artwork: “Sovereign Wings”
Created by: Sandy Scott
Veterans of Clay County who were killed in action are honored with a memorial in Anita B. Gorman Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The Clay County Veterans Memorial Committee raised private funds to build the memorial, which contains names of veterans from Clay County killed in action since the Civil War. “Sovereign Wings,” a bronze eagle sculpture, is the focal point of the memorial. WSKF Architects worked with the Clay County Veterans Memorial Committee and the Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Commission to complete this iconic project.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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