Drakes Branch in Charlotte County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Vietnam War Memorial

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 24, 2021

1. Vietnam War Memorial

Inscription.
In memory and honor of Gordon P. Young from Drakes Branch, Army First Cavalry Division, Killed In Action, Ia Drang and the below listed men from Charlotte County who paid the supreme sacrifice. May their names be forever remembered. May God bless their souls "lest we forget"

James C. Dickerson from Randolph, Navy, KIA 16 Aug 1968 • Mac Arthur G. Gee from Charlotte C.H., Army, KIA 05 June 1968 • Samuel B. Hubbard from Red House, Marines, KIA 24 Mar 1967 • Wilbert J. Jones, Jr. from Charlotte C.H., Army, KIA 18 Aug 1968 • Leroy A. Whitlow from Charlotte C.H., Army, KIA 15 Aug 1968

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, Vietnam.

Location. 36° 59.729′ N, 78° 36.227′ W. Memorial is in Drakes Branch, Virginia, in Charlotte County. It is on Main Street (Virginia Route 47) just north of Foster Street (County Road 1210), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 4677 Main St, Drakes Branch VA 23937, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Virginia’s

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Piedmont,

in Southside Virginia,

and specifically in Central Virginia.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); Drakes Branch (approx. ¼ mile away); Village Presbyterian Church (approx. 4½ miles away); Greenfield (approx. 4½ miles away); Edgehill (approx. 4½ miles away); a different marker also named Charlotte County Library (approx. 4.6 miles away); Constitutional Oak (approx. 4.6 miles away); Confederate Monument Interpretation (approx. 4.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Drakes Branch.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Charlotte County Library (was approx. 4.6 miles away but has been replaced with another marker

Veterans Memorials Display image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 24, 2021

2. Veterans Memorials Display

now near it).

Credits. This page was last revised on September 25, 2021. It was originally submitted on September 25, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 284 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 25, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.