Source: Erie Times-News, Pa.迷你倉Aug. 03--The 100-year-old Erie monument erected in honor of naval war hero Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley will be rededicated on Tuesday night as part of National Night Out events at Gridley Park, in the area of West Sixth and Liberty streets.Four neighborhood watch groups and Gannon University are among those who organized the rededication, which starts at 6 p.m., and the Night Out events, which run from 6 to 9 p.m. at the park.More than 20 other neighborhood watch groups and other nonprofit organizations are also holding National Night Out events on Tuesday night.Gridley, who died in 1898 at age 53, was born in文件倉Indiana but made his home in Erie and married an Erie resident when he was stationed in Erie, aboard the USS Michigan, in the 1870s.Gridley became a national figure in the Spanish-American War, as commander of the USS Olympia during the United States' rout of the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay, in the Philippines, on May 1, 1898. He obeyed the famous order from Commodore George Dewey: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley."Gridley's grave is at Erie's Lakeside Cemetery.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Erie Times-News (Erie, Pa.) Visit the Erie Times-News (Erie, Pa.) at .GoErie.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉
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