HISTORY & MUSEUMS
REMEMBERING AND HONORING
Memorials
Located next to Emporia State University’s One Room Schoolhouse, NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO FALLEN EDUCATORS (12 W 18th Ave, ESU Campus) was the first national memorial in Kansas. This memorial commemorates educators who lost their lives while performing their professional duties. As the founding city of Veterans Day, our military memorials carry special significance. At the ALL VETERANS MEMORIAL (933 S Commercial St), take a walk amongst the Tablets of Honor, a World War II Sherman tank, a Huey helicopter, and USS Oliver Hazard Perry anchor. Also located at the All Veterans Memorial is the Vietnam Veteran Memorial and Purple Heart Memorial. Emporia has a number of other smaller monuments and memorials around the city to honor military heroes including Civil War Veterans Monuments at both Fremont Park (4th Ave & Union St) and Maplewood & Memorial Lawn Cemeteries (2000 Prairie St). Latino Veterans are recognized with monuments at St. Catherine’s Church (205 S Lawrence St) and Peter Pan Park (S Neosho St & Kansas Ave).
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