Thursday, November 5, 2015
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Clara Barton, Monument
Clarissa "Clara" Barton: Educator, Angel of the Battle Field, Founder of the American red Cross, Supporter of the Women's Sufferage Movement, Organized Missing Soldiers Office, and Life time Humanitarian. Please read on to learn more of her accomplishements and/or contact us directly to be a part of this rewarding project.
Project: Memorial Sculpture and green space improvement. Work in progress for the Strawberry Park, City of Pasadena site of her last large organized relief effort before her death in 1912. When she donated 1.5 million strawberry plants to the area.
Created by artist Holly Denslow, Daughter of the American Revolution, Lady Washington Chapter, Tom Davis of Davis Brothers Builders, and Larry Brown Back of Brownback Projects.
Park Located on Armand Bayou Biking Trails
Park Adjacent to Public School
Park hosts paved running trail, sports exercise court, children's play area, ball fields, swimming pool, lazy river
Nestled within Pasadena City lines
To Install:
Sculpture, Sculpture platform with granite engraved donation listing and historical marker data
Benches, Tables, Shade Trees, Full paved walk
....Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was "Angel of the Battle Field" an American Cival war nurse, who founded the American Red Cross, and provided Galveston and surrounding areas with relief effort following the hurricane of September 1900. ref wikipedia.com
....By 1862, Clara received permission to deliver supplies to the battlefields. Within a week she made her first delivery, took care of Union soldiers, and refused to leave until she also visited the Confederate wounded and provided for them. At Antitetum a bullet passed through her sleeve and killed the wounded soldier she'd been caring for. Though she had no training, men needed help. One soldier gave her directions, and she used her pocket knife to remove a bullet from his cheek. For all her labor, she received a nasty case of typhoid fever. Still, she worked.
....1881 (60)
Miss Barton educates the public and garners support for an American society of the Red Cross, even to the point of meeting President Hayes. The American Association of the Red Cross is formed with Miss Barton elected as president. Within four months, Michigan suffers massive forest fires. The American Red Cross assists in recovery.
....March 16, 1882
On March 1, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Treaty of Geneva. Following unanimous ratification by the Senate, America joined the International Red Cross. ref Cathy Hake
...1900
The roots of Pasadena's annual Strawberry Festival may be traced to the 1900 storm and the "Angel of the Battlefield."
....When the storm of 1900 moved from Galveston onto the mainland the night of Sept. 8, its winds smashed directly into those orchards. Many fruit trees were topped or snapped. Those standing had been stripped of most limbs and all leaves.
In the storm's aftermath, worldwide relief efforts focused on Galveston, but the gravity of the situation facing the inland fruit farmers did not escape Clara Barton.
Barton, who served as a nurse on the battlefields of the Civil War and later helped found the American Red Cross, was 78 years old when she learned of the storm. She headed for Texas to lend what aid she and her organization could offer. It was the last disaster relief effort she would lead. ref Shannon Tompkins
*Learn more here:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
Cathy Hake: http://writespassage.blogspot.com/2013/03/clara-barton-angel-of-battlefield.html
Shannon Topmkins: ECHOES OF THE STORM /Storm led to strawberries - Houston Chronical - 09/05/2000
Contact us to become a part of the project: http://www.gofundme.com/clarissabarton
Project: Memorial Sculpture and green space improvement. Work in progress for the Strawberry Park, City of Pasadena site of her last large organized relief effort before her death in 1912. When she donated 1.5 million strawberry plants to the area.
Created by artist Holly Denslow, Daughter of the American Revolution, Lady Washington Chapter, Tom Davis of Davis Brothers Builders, and Larry Brown Back of Brownback Projects.
Park Located on Armand Bayou Biking Trails
Park Adjacent to Public School
Park hosts paved running trail, sports exercise court, children's play area, ball fields, swimming pool, lazy river
Nestled within Pasadena City lines
To Install:
Sculpture, Sculpture platform with granite engraved donation listing and historical marker data
Benches, Tables, Shade Trees, Full paved walk
....Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was "Angel of the Battle Field" an American Cival war nurse, who founded the American Red Cross, and provided Galveston and surrounding areas with relief effort following the hurricane of September 1900. ref wikipedia.com
....By 1862, Clara received permission to deliver supplies to the battlefields. Within a week she made her first delivery, took care of Union soldiers, and refused to leave until she also visited the Confederate wounded and provided for them. At Antitetum a bullet passed through her sleeve and killed the wounded soldier she'd been caring for. Though she had no training, men needed help. One soldier gave her directions, and she used her pocket knife to remove a bullet from his cheek. For all her labor, she received a nasty case of typhoid fever. Still, she worked.
....1881 (60)
Miss Barton educates the public and garners support for an American society of the Red Cross, even to the point of meeting President Hayes. The American Association of the Red Cross is formed with Miss Barton elected as president. Within four months, Michigan suffers massive forest fires. The American Red Cross assists in recovery.
....March 16, 1882
On March 1, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Treaty of Geneva. Following unanimous ratification by the Senate, America joined the International Red Cross. ref Cathy Hake
...1900
The roots of Pasadena's annual Strawberry Festival may be traced to the 1900 storm and the "Angel of the Battlefield."
....When the storm of 1900 moved from Galveston onto the mainland the night of Sept. 8, its winds smashed directly into those orchards. Many fruit trees were topped or snapped. Those standing had been stripped of most limbs and all leaves.
In the storm's aftermath, worldwide relief efforts focused on Galveston, but the gravity of the situation facing the inland fruit farmers did not escape Clara Barton.
Barton, who served as a nurse on the battlefields of the Civil War and later helped found the American Red Cross, was 78 years old when she learned of the storm. She headed for Texas to lend what aid she and her organization could offer. It was the last disaster relief effort she would lead. ref Shannon Tompkins
*Learn more here:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
Cathy Hake: http://writespassage.blogspot.com/2013/03/clara-barton-angel-of-battlefield.html
Shannon Topmkins: ECHOES OF THE STORM /Storm led to strawberries - Houston Chronical - 09/05/2000
Contact us to become a part of the project: http://www.gofundme.com/clarissabarton
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