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Plant Memorial
The Plant Memorial, a 50-foot granite obelisk, was erected in 1923 at the Yangtze Three Gorges to perpetuate the name of Samuel Cornell Plant.〔''North-China Herald'', October 4, 1924.〕 He was the first Upper Yangtze River Inspector of Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the first to command a merchant steamer plying on the Upper Yangtze River (1900),〔Plant Memorial Fund Brochure, 20th March 1923, MS/69/123, Papers of Capt. Samuel Cornell Plant, ''National Maritime Museum Greenwich''.〕〔Michael Gillam, "The Making of Cornell Plant the Pilot," ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'', Vol. 43 (2003), p. 195.〕 and the first to command regular Upper Yangtze commercial steamship service for the Chinese firm, Sichuan Steam Navigation Company.〔A.D. Blue, "Land and River Routes to West China (With especial reference to the Upper Yangtze), ''Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'', 16, (1976), p.173.〕 The monument was originally located at Big Temple Hill in Xintan (now called Qu-Yuan Township). Because it was located within a flooding area related to the Three Gorges Dam Project and considered an important historical landmark for Three Gorges shipping history, the monument was moved to higher ground and restored between June 28, 2002 and January 18, 2003. This project was funded by Zigui County Office of Immigration and managed by Qu-Yuan Township Government.〔Inscription on the Plant Memorial.〕
== Plant deaths ==
Captain Plant, his wife, Alice, and their two adopted Chinese daughters, boarded SS ''Teiresias'' in Shanghai for travel to England on February 23, 1921. After only three days at sea, Captain Plant, who had been ailing, died in his cabin from pneumonia, despite ship doctor's efforts to treat his condition. Alice, who was struggling too, died three days later, from heart failure when the ship arrived at its first stop in Hong Kong. Both Plants were interred at the Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley. Rt. Rev. William Banister conducted the graveside service. The Plants' two adopted Chinese daughters were among the chief mourners.〔Polly Shih Brandmeyer, "Cornell Plant, Lost Girls and Recovered Lives: Sino-British Relations at the Human Level in Late Qing and Early Republican China," ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch,'' Vol. 54 (2014), p. 101.〕
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