WWI at Veterans Memorial - Kingsport, TN
Posted by: 
vhasler
N 36° 32.009 W 082° 31.692
17S E 363195 N 4044208
New (dedicated 11/11/08) memorial for the veterans of Kingsport, TN - with an individual stone for World War I
Waymark Code: WM578B
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2008
Views: 13
Kingsport Tomorrow and a committee of volunteers worked for three years to make the memorial a reality, raising $600,000 of the $862,000 project cost. The city of Kingsport kicked in the rest.
The memorial is of red, white and blue granite. A white granite plaza contains six 7-foot-tall blue granite tablets, one for each war from World War I to Operation Iraqi Freedom, with two from World War II. The tablets display the names of 370 fallen soldiers from Kingsport on one side and a map of the theater of operations on the other. Over 550,000 pounds of granite was used in the construction of the memorial.
The names on the WWI memorial are common to the Kingsport region, thus showing the widespread "Volunteer" spirit of Tennessee.
Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 11/11/2008
Private or Public Monument?: Private
Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Kingsport Tomorrow
Geographic Region where the Monument is located: North America
Website for this Monument: [Web Link]
Physical Address of Monument:
On Ft. Henrey Drive at the corner of Eastman Rd.
Kingsport, Tn Sullivan
Rate this waymark: 
Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes
|
Visit Instructions:
New logs to this waymark must contain at least one photo of the monument with your GPS in the shot as proof of your visit. No old vacation photos please. You must have taken a picture while seeking this waymark. Logs that don't meet the photo requirement will be archived.