- City:
- Jacksboro, TN
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Monuments and Memorials
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Campbell County War Memorial was built by the National Youth Administration in 1938. The monument is shaped as a stone obelisk set on a base of stone infilled with earth. It is flanked by two World War I period cannons. A metal American Eagle rests on top of the memorial.
The monument, sponsored by the American Legion and the Spanish-American War Veterans, was dedicated to the Campbell County troops who died in the Spanish American War and World War I.
Source notes
Van West, Carroll, Tennessee's New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook, Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2001, p. 160-161.
Steve Rajtar, Frances Elizabeth Franks, War Monuments, Museums and Library Collections of 20th Century Conflicts: A Directory of United States Sites, McFarland & Co, 2002, p. 222.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on November 28, 2017.
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