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Dan Beery Monument
The monument was erected in June
2004 by the Greater Oaktown
Organization for Development
(G.O.O.D.) which donated
one-half of the cost of $2,000.
The other half was donated by
Oaktown residents. The
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Dan Beery
Oaktown native won an Olympic
Gold Medal in 2004. Beery was a
member of the United States
elite eight rowing team which
earned this country's first gold
medal in the sport in 40 years
in the summer of 2004 in Athens,
Greece.
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James R. Polk
James Polk began as a
sportswriter at age 8 for the
weekly Oaktown Press newspaper.
He worked for the Bloomington
Herald-Telephone and for the AP
in Indianapolis, where he
covered the Fairgrounds
Explosion in 1963, the Palm
Sunday tornadoes in 1965 and the
Indiana legislature.
He was inducted into the Indiana
Journalism Hall of Fame in 1994.
The Oaktown native won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his
coverage of Watergate ~
specifically for his disclosure
of alleged irregularities in the
financing of the campaign to
re-elect President Nixon in
1972. Polk currently lives in
Atlanta, Georgia. |
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American Legion Monument |
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War Memorial at the Oaktown
Cemetery
Honors those from Busseron
Township who have given their
lives for their country.
WORLD WAR I – Cecil
Frederick; Donald Frederick;
George O. Richards; Walter R.
Polk
WORLD WAR II – Leroy
Decker; Donald Hatfield; Max A.
Helderman; Ruel H. Miller;
Darrell E. Morrison; Maurice
Roe; Porter B. Summers; George
W. Risley
KOREA – Edward Lyman
Cole; Gerald Leon Shelton
VIETNAM – Lloyd Lavern
Heath; James Wayne Bedell |
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Busseron Township School
Memorial
Contains the cornerstones from
Emison and Oaktown schools.
Dedicated June 25, 1988 by the
Oaktown Alumni Association. |
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Oaktown Cemetery
Randall T. Shepard, chief
justice of the Indiana Supreme
Court, was in Oaktown Wednesday
afternoon to take part in a
ceremony adding Oaktown Cemetery
to the state Department of
Natural Resources "Cemetery and
Burial Grounds Registry."
Shepard's ancestor, Horace, who
is buried in there, donated the
ground in 1856 for the cemetery
and also was instrumental in the
founding of the town. The
dedication came on the 20th
anniversary of Shepard's
appointment to the state court.
May 2006 |
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Oaktown Cemetery
Established 1856
A Historic Cemetery listed in
Indiana's Cemetery and Burial
Grounds Registry of the Indiana
Department of Natural Resources.
Sign installed 2006. |
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In Memory of Gordon E. Utt
Plaque dedicated to Gordon E.
Utt by his brother, Richard Utt
during Old Oaken Days, June
2007. |
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Nick Hatfield
Currently stationed in Fort
Carson, Colorado. He has
completed two tours of duty in
Iraq. Nick is the son of Terry &
Cindy Hatfield and is married to
the former Hannah Anderson.
If you know of other Busseron
Township service people
currently serving, please e-mail
us through the website.
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