The Columbus Monument is located at Long Bay, on Landing Beach, and was erected by Columbian historian Ruth C. (Durlacher) Wolper and the people of San Salvador on 25th December 1956. The monument is a simple white cross which commemorates the first land discovered in the West Indies and the spot where Christopher Columbus first came ashore.
The inscription reads:
ON OR NEAR THIS SPOT
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
LANDED ON 12th OCTOBER 1492.”…Admiral S.E. Morison DS..R
DEDICATION CEREMONY AND CHRISTMAS SERVICES SHARED BY ALL CHURCHES
25th DECEMBER 1956
AMERICANS AND NATIVES WORSHIPPED TOGETHER AS SYMBOL OF FAITH
LOVE AND UNITY BETWEEN ALL NATIONS AND FOR PEACE ON EARTH.
Ruth C. (Durlacher) Wolper.
Postcards
1977 – Insilco Dukane Press (#2500 Series)
