Cuban Friendship Urn - Washington, DC - Spanish-American War Memorials on Waymarking.com

President Gerardo Machado of the Republic of Cuba gave the monument to President Calvin Coolidge of the United States of America in 1928 and it was placed in East Potomac Park, in the vicinity of its present location. In 1957 it was removed during the construction of the present 14th Street bridge and forgotten. In 1996 an inquiry by a local newspaper with a photograph of the urn on lying its side in a Park Service storage yard started the rehabilitation of the monument, which was returned to East Potomac Park in 1998.

Source: The Historical Marker Datatbase

There are two Inscriptions:

1- El recuerdo del “Maine” tendrá eterna duración durante los siglos los lazos de la amistad entre la tierra de Cuba y la tierra de los Estados Unidos de Norte América. —Gerardo Machado

Translation:

The memory of the “Maine” will last forever through the centuries [as will] the bonds of friendship between the homeland of Cuba and the homeland of the United States of North America. —Gerardo Machado

2- Esta copa fué esculpida de un fragmento de la columna de mármol del monumento a las víctimas del “Maine” ericido en la ciudad de La Habana, cuya columna fué derribada por el ciclón de 20 de Octubre de 1926.

Translation:

This cup was carved from a fragment of the marble column of the monument to the victims of the "Maine" ericido in the city of Havana, whose column was demolished by the cyclone of October 20, 1926.

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Type of memorial: Monument Location: East Potomac Park, Washington DC Public or private: Public Who placed it?: National Park Sevice When was it placed?: 1928. Rededicated at current location on February 15, 1998

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