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[Teegate]

In the above thread I mention I had an old map of the Carranza Memorial and I still have not found it. However, I did find this. Take notice the Carranza Monument is mentioned on October 9 1930. If you look at various sites online they have it being built anywhere from 1931 to 1933 but we know that in 1930 this map shows it. There is a possibility that it wasn't finished when this map was drawn.

 

[MuckSavage]

Perhaps it wasn't "thee" memorial, but perhaps simply a rock pile & a flag? (Or something of the like?)

 

[stiltzkin]

Yes, I think that's correct. Some sort of marker existed at the site in 1930, and possibly as early as 1928 or 1929, when the first American Legion memorial service was held.

The New York Times covered the second memorial service on July 12, 1930, reporting the following day:

A.W. Marnetza, Chancellor of the Mexican Consul General's office in New York, laid a wreath on the marker placed at the little clearing in the Jersey pine woods where the aviator's body was found. Señor Marnetza paid tribute to the American Legion Post at Mount Holly and said that "the Mexican people never will forget the kindnesses shown to Carranza's country at the time of its bereavement." While the small party stood in silent prayer, a bugler sounded taps.

So I suppose whatever it was was large enough to lay a wreath on. This would not have been the current monument, however. That was unveiled at the third memorial ceremony the next year, on July 12, 1931. This has been discussed on this forum before.

On June 16, 1931, it passed through Laredo, Texas shipped in pieces, according to La Opinion of Los Angeles (translating from Spanish):

Late yesterday afternoon, after the relevant documents were arranged, the monument that the Secretariat of Public Education will erect at the site where Captain Emilio Carranza of the Mexican Aviation Department died passed through from Mexico City. The monument, according to reports provided to us yesterday, is made of stone and weighs five tons; it is being transported in 48 crates, which are entrusted to the Mexican Consul in Philadelphia. As is known, the monument will be installed in Mount Holly, New Jersey, the place where Captain Carranza died while attempting to make a flight between New York and Mexico.

On July 18, 1931, El Tucsonense of Tucson, Arizona reported on the unveiling (also translating from Spanish):

On Sunday, the monument erected by the children of Mexico's schools to the memory of Captain Emilio Carranza, ace of Mexican aviation who tragically perished three years ago when attempting a direct flight from New York to Mexico, corresponding with the goodwill flight made by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, was unveiled near [Chatsworth]. The monument, which is made of stone specially brought from Mexico, was erected at the exact site where the aviator Carranza lost his life, in the heart of the New Jersey forest area.