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GAP-W9-2 SETTLED · THE MARKER RECORD READ WHOLE
The banked leg carried the existence of the American Legion's birthplace marker for Harold C. Urey but not its text; the text is now read whole and printed as inscribed. The marker stands at the intersection of Roosevelt Road (U.S. 6) and Illinois Street in Walkerton, and its record — the Historical Marker Database entry, photographed July 21, 2014 — gives the inscription entire:
"Erected by and for the American Legion Post No. 189 to designate the birthplace of Scientist, Educator, Lecturer, Author Harold C. Urey, 1934 Nobel Prize Winner for his discovery of heavy hydrogen or deuterium and noted for many other major contributions to science. Through his discovery of deuterium, the hydrogen bomb became possible. Born April 29, 1893 at Walkerton Indiana to Samuel Clayton and Cora Rebecca (Reinoehl) Urey."
Three disciplines attach to the reading. First, whose marker this is: it is the Legion post's own — erected by and for Post No. 189, the post this build's wars leg follows — and not an Indiana state historical marker; the Indiana Historical Bureau's "Dr. Harold C. Urey" state marker, dedicated May 9, 2026, stands in DeKalb County at Fairfield Cemetery, Corunna, on the ground where Urey was raised and is buried, and the two markers are different objects on different ground, not to be merged. Second, the inscription's spellings govern themselves: the mother's maiden name is inscribed "Reinoehl," agreeing with the main biographical record this build prints against the "Reinsehl" variant carried in the Britannica line. Third, the inscription's own period voice — "Through his discovery of deuterium, the hydrogen bomb became possible" — is the post's mid-century phrasing, printed as inscribed and not modernized. The marker's photograph in the database record is its contributor's copyrighted work (Duane Hall, 2014) and stands in the sources leg's credits-and-rights ledger at terms-check; what this section banks is the text, which this section's awards register can now quote rather than describe.
Principal sources: Historical Marker Database, the Harold C. Urey marker record (Walkerton, Indiana; photographed by Duane Hall, July 21, 2014; read whole, November 2026); Indiana Historical Bureau marker coverage of the Corunna dedication, May 9, 2026 (the distinct state marker).