The Worth Memorial

Located on a rather bald-looking triangle bordered by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, 24th and 25th Streets directly adjacent to Madison Square, the Worth Memorial is the district’s first and oldest monument and the second oldest public monument in the city.  Erected to the memory of Major-General William Jenkins Worth (1794-1857), active in both the Seminole and Mexican Wars as well as the War of 1812, the Worth Memorial is a granite obelisk designed by James Batterson in 1857.

Worth died of cholera in San Antonio, TX, while in command: the city of Fort Worth, TX, is named for him as is Worth Street in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood.

The general’s remains are interred beneath the memorial.

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