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Listen: The FolkFolk ProgramView of the Gibson Inn with the Marks Memorial in the right foreground - Apalachicola, Florida.
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Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 3, FF1
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Located at 51 Avenue C on the northwest corner of Market Street. The Inn was established in 1907 and restored in 1985.
The monument was placed in the center of downtown Apalachicola in remembrance of Lt. Willoughby Ryan Marks, who commanded Company C of the 61st Infantry, 5th Division, for showing "extraordinary valor" and sacrificing his life in an attempt to save a comrade killed in the Argonne, a World War I battle fought October 12, 1918.
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