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PARK FACT:
Castle Garden housed a popular beer garden in the early 19th century.
Battery Park
Battery Pl, State St and Whitehall St
Manhattan
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Acres: 21.88
East Coast Memorial 
Read a history from Parks’ Historical Signs Project. This text can be found posted within the park.
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- Sculptor: Albino Manca
- Architect: Gehron and Seltzer; Paul Cret Harbeson, FAIA
- Description: Eagle on pedestal between two ranks of four inscribed pylons (eight pylons in all; axis aligned with Statue of Liberty)
- Materials: Eagle--bronze; pedestal--granite; pylons--Chelmsford granite
- Cast: 1961
- Dedicated: May 23, 1963
- Foundry: Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry, NY
- Inscription: 1) pedestal of eagle, front: "1941 *** 1945 / ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE / OF HER SONS / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN HER SERVICE/ AND WHO SLEEP IN THE AMERICAN COASTAL
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