THIS STATUE IS KNOW AS "THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DOUGHBOY", DESIGNED TO HONOR THE VETERANS AND CASUALTIES OF WORLD WAR I. MASS PRODUCED DURING THE 1920'S AND 1930'S FOR COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. ITS TITLE IS OFTEN SHORTENED TO "THE DOUGH ...

SEE ALSO-LANCASTER SEVENTH WARD WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL

ERECTED BY INDEPENDENT BATTERY I, PA. LIGHT ARTILLERY AND THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

SEE ALSO-LANCASTER COUNTY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT

SEE ALSO-LANCASTER COUNTY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT PLAQUE

IN MEMORIAM U.S.S. MAINE DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR FEBRUARY 15TH, 1898 THIS TABLET IS CAST FROM METAL RECOVERED FROM THE U.S.S. MAINE.

THE STATUE IS CALLED THE HIKER. THERE ARE TWO STYLES BOTH INSTALLED IN NUMEROUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. BOTH STATUES ARE DEDICATED TO THE U.S. SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

ORIGINALLY TO HONOR LANCASTRIAN UNION SOLDIERS KILLED DURING THE CIVIL WAR. TODAY IT REPRESENTS SUBSEQUENT WARS.