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184:. Known as the Spanish–American War Memorial it was dedicated in Veterans Memorial Plaza (formerly Triangle Park), at Palisades Avenue and 33rd Street on September 29, 1940, and is dedicated to the "memory of the soldiers, sailors and marines who fought in the war with Spain in 1898."
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