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
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Famous quotes containing the word memory:
“... memory is the only way home.”
—Terry Tempest Williams, U.S. author. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 10, by Mickey Pearlman (1993)
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)