Veterans Park of Cambria County was dedicated on September 3, 1915, to the memory of soldiers and sailors from Cambria County, Pennsylvania, who fought in defense of their country. In 1912, a panel of fourteen Civil War veterans from across Cambria County planned the memorial's design, choosing an obelisk and the placement of 3,500 names of Civil War veterans on bronze tablets at its base. County veterans organizations urged that an additional 2,000 names be included to represent veterans from all previous wars, reflecting a desire to include all names from the American Revolution through the Civil War. In 1913, the county commissioners appropriated $7,000 to erect the sixty-three-foot-tall gray granite monument, and David E. Park, a Pittsburgh banker with a summer home in Ebensburg, contributed another $5,000. Construction was awarded to Jones Brothers of Barre, Vermont; its founder, Seward Jones, was a Civil War veteran born in Ebensburg. The statue of the Civil War armed sentinel was manufactured by Gorham Co. Foundry of Providence, Rhode Island. The park has hosted numerous veterans parades, dedications, and memorial observances, and it also became the site of a community time capsule buried in 1975. In 2011, Veterans Park was rededicated to honor all veterans, and the restored site features a semicircle of six flags, with the United States flag flanked by flags representing the five branches of the military, honoring all who have served in any military capacity, in wartime or peacetime, overseas or stateside.