In Kissimmee's Lakefront Park stands an unusual monument known as the Monument of States. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, local doctor Charles Bressler-Pettis decided that the area needed a symbol of American Unity. He wrote to the governor of every state (there were only 48 states at the time), asking them to send local rocks to him.

When he received the rocks, he made a tower, embedding the rocks into garish concrete slabs and labelled each rock with its origins – which state it was from and who had sent it. Over the years, time took its toll on the monument, but it was repainted and revitalized in 2001 by local business owners and it is certainly worth a trip to Lakefront Park to see this curious cairn.

Address: 300 E. Monument Avenue, Lakefront Park, Kissimmee, FL 34741, Phone: 407-847-2821

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