Triangle Park · Milton, Washington

A column of the South Tower
stands in Milton.

Thirty-six feet of World Trade Center steel, raised in a small city's park so that anyone can walk up, put a hand on it, and remember.

Plan a visit September 11, 5:46 am
Elevation drawing of the memorial from the south: the bent steel column standing on its plaza beside three light bollards
Elevation looking from the south. Artifact N-153 with structural support, 35′-5″ overall, on a 47′-2″ plaza.

The steel

Window column 442, floors 91 to 94, Tower 2.

The piece came from the upper floors of the South Tower, bent as it was found. It is among the larger pieces of the towers released to any community, and it stands here as it was found, on a steel support, with nothing added to it.

Artifact
N-153Released by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Origin
WTC Tower 2Window column 442, floors 91 to 94
Steel
NIST C-48Type C, S-5
Height
35′ 5″Thirty-six feet of steel; the city's height limit is 35 feet

The story

Nine years, three cities, and thousands of phone calls.

Jack Chandler asked for a piece of the towers in 2012. What arrived in 2015 was far larger than anyone had requested. It took three cities and six more years to stand it up.

  1. The request. Jack Chandler applies to the Port Authority for a piece of World Trade Center steel for a memorial in Milton.

  2. The call. Three years later: a piece is available, much larger than the one asked for. The cities of Fife, Milton and Edgewood agree to take it together.

  3. The drive. Truck driver Mike Earhart hauls the column from JFK Airport to Milton, at cost.

  4. The plan. Permit application filed with the City of Milton: a 35-foot memorial in a new plaza in Triangle Park, beside the Veterans Memorial. Sketches by Fife students shape the design.

  5. The notice. The city issues notice of a complete application. Site plan, landscape and lighting plans follow.

  6. The dedication. Twenty years after the attacks, the steel is raised and the plaza is dedicated.

  7. Twenty-five years. The remembrance at 5:46 am marks a quarter century.

Visit

Open every day. Walk up to it.

Where

9/11 Memorial, Triangle Park
1400 15th Avenue
Milton, WA 98354

The plaza sits in the northeast corner of the park, beside the Veterans Memorial. Park in the Veterans Memorial lot. The plaza is level and paved; the steel is lit at night.

Open in Maps

Site plan of Triangle Park showing the circular memorial plaza in the northeast corner next to the Veterans Memorial and parking
Site plan from the 2019 application. The round plaza at the top is the memorial; the Veterans Memorial and parking are below it.

Remembrance

Every September 11, at the minute the first plane hit.

8:46 am in New York is 5:46 am in Milton. VFW Posts 11401 and 2224 hold the ceremony at the plaza each year, before dawn. Everyone is welcome.

Next ceremony

5:46 am

Friday, September 11, 2026
9/11 Memorial, Triangle Park

Hosted by VFW Post 11401 and VFW Post 2224. Dress for the weather; the ceremony is outdoors and brief.

The people

Built by volunteers, kept by three cities.

Jack Chandler

Applied for the steel in 2012 and carried the project for nine years.

Vernon, Creative Comfort

Designed the memorial and its plaza.

Fife students

Their sketches, with art teacher Katy Baur, shaped the design.

John Bastion

Structural engineer. Designed the foundation that holds the column.

The Jesse Company, Tacoma

Stood the steel up.

Mike Earhart

Drove the column across the country from JFK Airport.

VFW Posts 11401 and 2224

Hold the remembrance every September 11.

Cities of Milton, Fife and Edgewood

Secured the artifact together and are its custodians.