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Pioneer Women

1938 memorial in Atlanta, Georgia, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ101540261 ↗
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Pioneer Women is a memorial in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Located in Piedmont Park, the memorial, designed by Steffen Thomas, was dedicated in 1938 by the Atlanta Pioneer Women's Society to honor former members of the group.

History

The memorial was erected in 1938 to honor group members between 1847 and 1869. Steffen Thomas designed the monument. The memorial consists of a large granite boulder affixed with bronze plaques. The plaque on one side shows a woman working at a spinning wheel. The memorial is located just north of the park's 14th Street entrance.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1847, 1869—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pioneer, Women and memorial can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q101540261. Authority coordinates are 33.787, -84.378. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1847 and 1869.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pioneer Women” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.