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The Boyne Obelisk erected in 1736, bearing this inscription: 'Sacred to the glorious memory of King William the Third, who, on the 1st of July, 1690, passed the river near this place to attack James the Second, and did, on that day, by a single battle, secure to us and to our posterity, our liberty, laws, and religion. The monument stood until 1923 AD and was then blown up by an early act of terrorism, allegedly with dynamite stolen from the nearby Irish Army base.The base of the Obelisk remains to this day with several stones still scattered around and in the River Boyne itself. From Here

The present Obelisk Bridge is of lattice iron, built by Grendon’s Foundry in Drogheda and placed in position in 1869. It superseded a wooden bridge which was built at the ford sometime after the Battle of the Boyne. Just north of this bridge is an ivy covered rock about 30 feet high from the water’s edge, on which an obelisk was raised in 1736, which gives the place its name. This was a tall tapering stone monument commemorating ‘King Billy’s’ victory. According to D’Alton in his ‘History of Drogheda’ it was the first ever monument to the event. It stood on a square Plinth of 20 feet and was about 150 feet high. It had the following inscription: ‘Sacred to the glorious memory of King William the Third who on the July 1 1690, crossed the Boyne near this place, to attack James the Second at the head of a Popish army, advantageously posted on the south side of it, and did on that day, by a successful battle, secure to us and our posterity, our liberty, laws and religion. In consequence of this action James the Second left this kingdom and fled to France. This memorial of our deliverance was erected in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, the first stone being laid by Lionel Sackville, Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of the Kingdom of Ireland. MDCCXXXVI. His monument was erected by the grateful contributions of several Protestants of Great Britain and Ireland.’ For 187 years the monument was sketched and later photographed from all angles and used in the tourist brochures of the day until it was blown up in 1923.

More at - www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/localnot... [Ed. DannyM8 - snap ! ]

The bridge looks brand new and the stonework not weathered. So 1869 -ish?

Should be Von Spreckelsen. From p. 105-6 of Fair Play: A Clean Honest Statement of the Railroad and Transportation Situation by Frederick S Mordaunt. Published 1911 books.google.com/books?id=ul0EAAAAMAAJ& SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS BLAMED ON SUSPECTS. Oct. 24, 1909‚ A new telephone exchange, a saw mill and a garage at Indianapolis were destroyed by dynamite explosions. The saw mill and garage belonged to Albert von Spreckelsen, a contractor who was using non-union labor in constructing the telephone building. {see also: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0711F6385813738... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9801E2DB1031E233A... } March 23, 1910‚ Dynamite explosions did $15,000 damage to the courthouse in course of erection at Omaha, and the plant of Caldwell & Drake at Columbus, Ind. Caldwell & Drake were contractors for the Omaha building and had trouble with union iron workers. Oct. 1, 1910‚ Los Angeles Times building wrecked and twenty-one persons killed. Bombs found at home of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, the publisher. Sept. 4, 1910‚Two explosions damaged the plant of Lucas & Sons Iron Works at Peoria, Ill., and wrecked a bridge under construction. Dec. 18, 1910‚ Dynamite explosion damaged plant of the Llewellyn Iron Company, Los Angeles. Feb. 24, 1911‚ Explosion at the Iroquois Iron Works in South Chicago. March 25, 1911‚ Coal hoisting plant at Milwaukee, being erected by the Hyle & Patterson Construction Company of Pittsburgh. The damage amounted to $200,000. April 5, 1911‚ Blast wrecked tower on Municipal building at Springfield, Mass. The "dynamite campaign" of the ironworkers is described briefly on p. 63 of The World of the Worker: LABOR IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA by James R. Green (University of Illinois Press: 1998) In 1905, the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers struck when their employers declared an open shop. The conflict centered at first on New York City, where the union had been constructing many new skyscrapers and where violence had characterized labor relations in the building trades. As the struggle grew in intensity, the Structural Ironworkers began a "dynamite campaign" against open-shop employers that led to eighty explosions over the next few years, culminating in in the 1910 conflagration at the open-shop Los Angeles Times building which killed twenty workers. See also: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B02E6DE1F31E233A...

And again - thanks swang :)

This appears also to be related to the McNamara Brothers' case, also considering the juxtapositioning in the collection with photos on the next Flickr page. www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/exhibits/mcnamara/bio....

Von Spreckelsen's mill stood in the 1200 block of North Street (on the north side of the street between N. Highland Avenue and Oriental Street) in what is now Cottage Home Neighborhood in Indianapolis. On this same night they also dynamited Von Spreckelsen's nearby carriage house. His niece, Helen (Bigelow) Ruskaup, was a girl at the time who lived nearby. She recalled that the explosion took out the eye of the horse and she remembered being taken to the front of the house as they shot the horse.

Actually the name is "von Spreckelsen" with a small "v." That was my great-grandfather.

It's under 30' of water, these days: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,698008,708362,11,3

It's not even visible on the satellite any more: www.google.ie/maps/@53.118798,-6.5335923,768m/data=!3m1!1e3

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poulaphouca_Reservoir says that the bridge was blown up between 1938 and 1940.

This bridge looks a lot like Turkish era bridges in Bosnia.

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