Zebulon Pike - Memory

Memory

As Olsen (2006) shows, after his death in battle Pike's military accomplishments were widely celebrated in terms of mourning memorials, paintings, poems and songs, as well as biographies. He became the namesake for dozens of towns, counties, and ships. His memory faded after the Civil War, but recovered in 1906 at the centennial of his Southwest Expedition. His 20th century reputation focused on his exploration, and his name appeared often on natural features, such as parks, islands, lakes, and dams.

Many places and two ships were named for the explorer:

  • Federal:
    • USS General Pike
    • Fort Pike
    • Pikes Peak
    • Pike National Forest
    • Liberty ship SS Zebulon Pike (appears in Episode 1 of Victory At Sea)
    • General Zebulon Pike Lock and Dam No. 11 in Dubuque, Iowa
  • State and local:
    • Pikesville, Maryland
    • Pike County
      • Alabama
      • Arkansas
      • Georgia and its county seat Zebulon
      • Illinois
      • Indiana
      • Kentucky
      • Mississippi
      • Missouri
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
    • Pikes Peak (Iowa)
    • Piketon, Ohio
    • Pikeville, Kentucky
    • Pike Island in Fort Snelling State Park, Minnesota
    • Pike Creek Township in Morrison County, Minnesota
    • Pike Township, Marion County, Indiana
    • Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio
    • Pike Trail League, Kansas high school activities league
    • Pike Valley School District, Kansas School District, U.S.D. 426

Read more about this topic:  Zebulon Pike

Famous quotes containing the word memory:

    “Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. “I’ll tell you what, sir,” he said; “the talent of this child is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sir—seen—to be ever so faintly appreciated.”... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same age—not perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    “In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)