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For This And Succeeding Generations Gardiner 86
A major tribute was paid Cornelius Hedges at the cornerstone
laying of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Arch at the North
Entrance to Yellowstone Park on April 24, 1903. Among the articles
placed in the cornerstone were the following: Pictures of Hon. N.
P. Langford, first Superintendent of the Park, one of the Washburn
party of 1870; also of Cornelius Hedges, member of the same
party, who first suggested making a National Park.311 These were
the only pictures placed in the cornerstone box, and Hedges was in
attendance that day to witness the laying of the cornerstone for the
Memorial Arch.
Figure 16. Roosevelt Memorial Arch.
