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"Burroughs, who grew up playing football at the park, said the association is having bronze eagles cast to replace similar statues removed from the park in the 1940s. The new eagles should be installed sometime this summer."
-Quote taken from Jacksonville.com post "Park's Smashed Wall To Be Repaired Soon".
"When Memorial Park was completed in 1924, two great cast-stone eagles framed the famous bronze statue of winged youth, executed by sculptor Adrian Pillars. It is not known whether Pillars designed the eagles as well. It is also unknown what happened to them, but sometime in the mid-1930s the pair of eagles was removed from the park in Riverside and placed in Confederate Park in Springfield, where they remain today. This photo was taken in 1933 when the eagles were still in Memorial Park."
Photo from Jaxhistory.com
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