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Let\u2019s call it a marker marked by a marker.
\nHanover\u2019s Wirt Park, a public park, is home of a Ten Commandments marker sitting on a chunk of privately owned land.
\nThe non-profit Gitt-Moul Historic Properties\u2019 purchase of the land has ended a multi-year controversy. Now the monument has a nearby marker of its own… .<\/p>\n


\nThis marker details the history of the Ten Commandments monument but doesn\u2019t delve into a recently resolved church-state controversy. In 2003, Americans United for Separation of Church and State challenged the monument sitting for decades on public land.
\nThe new marker makes one thing perfectly clear: \u201cThe Borough of Hanover does not maintain the property, is not the owner of the property, and performs no municipal function in relation to the monument property.”
\nBut the monument and its explanatory marker are not the only sights to see at Wirt Park.
\nThe Hanover Fire Museum, part of the Central Station at Wirt Park, includes a room containing three pieces of apparatus:
\n– 1882-Silsby Steamer 550 GRM.
\n– 1830-circa 2 cylinder piston hand pumper, from Baltimore.
\n– 1770-circa Nushem grinder hand engine.
\nIt also houses a working 1911 Gamewell Alarm Board and other fire memorabilia. http:\/\/www.borough.hanover.pa.us\/images\/hanover\/hbfiremuseum.html <\/a>
\nSo there it is, overlooked York County landmark No. 26, Hanover\u2019s Wirt Park Ten Commandments Monument and fire museum. Other overlooked York County sites and landmarks (See posts under York Town Square):
\n— The Little Courthouse
\n— Prospect Hill Cemetery
\n— War Mothers Memorial
\n— Work War II USO at former York County Academy gymnasium
\n— York\u2019s Salem Square soldiers monument
\n— York\u2019s Cookes House
\n— York\u2019s rowhouses
\n— Wrightsville\u2019s monuments
\n— The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge
\n— Memorial trees along highways Route 30 & Susquehanna Trail.
\n— The Inches
\n— Camp Stewartstown
\n— The Wrightsville Bridge supports
\n— New York Wire Co.\u2019s factory whistle
\n— Mary Ann Furnace
\n— York\u2019s Hartman Building
\n— Hanover\u2019s Iron Mike and The Picket
\n— York\u2019s Eberts Lane
\n— Helen Reeves Thackston Memorial Park
\n— WW II defense worker housing
\n— Shiloh\u2019s former town square
\n— Loucks one-room school
\n— Red Lion\u2019s Fairmount Park
\n— Carlisle Avenue Market House
\n_ York’s Fairmount neighborhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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